F-35 and F-22. Photo from Military Photos And Photoshops
How China Will Track—and Kill—America’s Newest Stealth Jets -- Bill Sweetman, Daily Beast
A gang of advanced missiles and a bleeding-edge radar unveiled at a Chinese air show could mean big trouble for the Pentagon’s best fighters.
Once, no magic act was complete without the magician’s revealingly dressed assistant. Her job was not merely to be sawn in half but to dominate the mostly male audience’s attention at moments when a focus on the whereabouts of the rabbit might blow the gaff.
That was a useful lesson to bear in mind at last month’s Zhuhai air show—China’s only domestic air and defense trade show, held once every other year.
If anything at Zhuhai was wearing fishnets and high heels, it was the Shenyang FC-31 stealth fighter, which resembles a twin-engine version of America’s newest stealth jet, the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter. But the real tricks lay in Beijing’s growing family of advanced missiles and radars.
The FC-31 prototype was hidden except when it was flying, and not much detail was available. But the display was notable for the eruptions of smoke from the engines, most likely Russian RD-93s.
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My Comment: The F-35 program is a one trillion U.S. dollar program because of it's superior and unique stealth technologies and avionics .... and now we are being told that this is no longer the case ?!?!?!?!
Why does this not surprise me.
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