[LiXiangyang]

We all know Raptor looks like a MiG-25, which suggesting Belenko must has been the project director & chief designer of your Raptor.

[tanknetter]

We all know Raptor looks like a MiG-25, which suggesting Belenko must has been the project director & chief designer of your Raptor.

The MiG-25 bears a way-too coincidental similarity to the North American A-5A Vigilante. Make the Vigi fat (to put really big engines in it), eliminate the internal bomb-bay and give it twin tails and you have a MiG-25. Or an F-15, for that matter.

The simple fact is that there are a finite number of design solutions to design challenges. So yes, high-speed aircraft (A-5A, MiG-25, F-15), high maneuverability aircraft (Gripen, Eurofighter Typhoon, Rafale, ChiCom J-10, Lavi, X-31), spacecraft (Shuttle Orbiter, Buran) stealth aircraft and the like are going to look very, very similar.

Like with the Pak-FA T-50 (Russian "Raptorski") it looks like the ChiCom stealth prototype combines elements from the F-22, the YF-23 and the F-35. It may even combine elements from the Pak-FA T-50, because the back-ends look just about identical (and close to the MiG 1.44 as well).

[DesertRhino]

Actually, the Raptor looks nothing like the MiG-25. When you Chicoms get the unrestricted version of Google, you are going to learn so many new things!

[Hulka]

You have no idea of what makes a 5th generation aircraft.

Good.

Keep throwing bucks at a piece of trash like that. . .go one. . .I dare ‘ya.