Monday, December 27, 2010

DTN News - DEFENSE NEWS: First Chinese Stealth Fighter Ready For Takeoff?

Defense News: DTN News - DEFENSE NEWS: First Chinese Stealth Fighter Ready For Takeoff?
Source: DTN News - - This article compiled by Roger Smith from reliable sources By Mark Thompson - Swampland
(NSI News Source Info) SINGAPORE - December 27, 2010: Aviation buffs are buzzing over blurry photographs now surfacing on Chinese military websites purporting to show Beijing's first stealth fighter jet, the Chengdu J-20 fighter. Chinese aviation fans says they have been snapping pics of the jet during recent taxi tests, with a first flight likely still weeks away. It's the best holiday gift Western air power advocates could wish for -- or further evidence of the self-licking ice cream cone nature of defense spending. Most likely, both.

Half the fun of such sightings is trying to determine if they are real, or simply Photoshopped fighters created on computer screens. If you think it may be real, you try to figure out its utility -- and how other air forces might counter it. "Why would China need or want a short-range stealth aircraft?"asks Bill Sweetman of Aviation Week, a pre-eminent new-plane hunter. "Any targets with defenses that call for that capability are a long way from the mainland."


Some observers believe the jet is genuine, and overdue. "China has the money, they have the industrial expertise, they have the scientific base, the drive and motivation and of course the benefit of American research over 30 years acquired by legal or illegal means," one notes. "These enablers give China wide latitude in matching or exceeding American designs that are now 20 years old."

Others aren't so impressed. "Personally I think it is piloted by sharks and armed with an internally mounted death ray (technology provided by escaped Nazis who the Chinese found on the moon during their yet to be revealed highly secretive moon mission) with wing hard points wired for photon torpedos and Zeus's lightning rods," a second opined.


"Oh, it is also a `carrier killer'." That, of course, is a major concern of the U.S. Navy. If war were ever to come between China and the U.S., it would likely be over Taiwan -- and U.S. aircraft carriers would be key to winning that fight. Stay tuned.



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    1. reinhardgehlenJanuary 5, 2011 at 5:51 PM

      Chinese military production/manufacturing is two sided sword. Obvious, one side is for defense. Other side - military weapons are for sale to anyone with gold, or negotiable natural resources such as petroleum or scarce metals.

      Whether or not the J-20 has any practical military use for defense of China is not a consideration here. The J-20 will be marketed towards nations with gold, in particulars the nations that currently purchase aircraft from UK/USA and/or France.

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