Posted on 12/26/2016 9:40:19 PM PST by deek69
China has tested the latest version of its fifth-generation stealth fighter, state media reported on Monday, as it tries to end the West’s monopoly on the world’s most advanced warplanes. The test comes as the nation flexes its military muscles, sending its sole aircraft carrier the Liaoning into the western Pacific in recent days to lead drills there for the first time. The newest version of the J-31, now renamed the FC-31 Gyrfalcon, took to the air for the first time on Friday, the China Daily reported.
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I have pipe wrench that i bought probably at home depot, made in CHINA. I had to fix it.
wow five seconds of a plastic plane spewing bad gas? fumes.
They don’t have to worry about the F-35. Trump is going to Canx.
No doubt this was possible thanks to Clintons, Obama, and other assorted traitors.
“Gyrfalcon”??
What? No “Long March”? No “Seven Happiness Jet”? No “Sum Ting Wong Fighter”?
With 23 million little boys and girls aborted every year, China is so advanced.
Technically, if we all know about it, isn't it a qualified failure?
Unless it's BS and this is just a sales pitch to nations who are in the market for a Chinese made stealth fighter. Which is what I suspect this is all about. Let the buyer beware...
Saber rattling always brings money bombs.. just ask the norks.
Looks like a twin of American stealth fighters. Amazing how that happens.
I’d like to see the inside cockpit in that thing, avionics and radar for shite I imagine.
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