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Old 11-20-10, 01:42 PM   #31
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Those lines along the wing roots are unmistakable. Did our government fork over the plans for the Nighthawk or did Beijing snoop it out from under us?
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Old 11-20-10, 01:46 PM   #32
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They just copied the Matchbox model.
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Old 11-20-10, 01:48 PM   #33
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I don't think it would be that hard for them to take the basic design and figure out how best to build such a thing even without the blueprints, unless they copied the electronics as well, which I doubt.
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Old 11-20-10, 01:52 PM   #34
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Forget what I said, I only saw the black lines of the rear parts of the wings and tail.
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Old 11-20-10, 02:16 PM   #35
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Those lines along the wing roots are unmistakable. Did our government fork over the plans for the Nighthawk or did Beijing snoop it out from under us?
From Serbia with love...




... sooner or latter the shoot down of #806 was going to bite us in the ass...
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Old 11-20-10, 03:03 PM   #36
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Already bit you, I'd say Comrade PAK-FA benefitted a fair bit from #806, after all, that's where most of the materials went.
Then of course, you have the Russians playing the same game:

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Old 11-20-10, 03:49 PM   #37
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Already bit you, I'd say Comrade PAK-FA benefitted a fair bit from #806, after all, that's where most of the materials went.
The Russians were working on Stealth Jets before the shoot down they started work on this bad boy in 1986...


...But then Clint Eastwood stole it... oh wait that was that other Soviet stealth plane...
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Old 11-20-10, 05:51 PM   #38
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Twas actually the Russians who developed the equations for stealth.

Just the US went and developed it and the materials.

The theory has been out there for ages, the chinese have enough smart people to look at the many pictures of the F-22 to work it out.

It all comes down to materials and electronics of which I'd say the Russians and the Chinese aren't that far behind. You can mump and moan all you want about the F-117 shootdown but I wouldn't be surprised if they were already working on it.
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Old 11-20-10, 06:06 PM   #39
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20 to 30 yrs ? If most of you here aren't lieing about your age, you'll be close to being in a nurseing home crapping in your pants.

Until some idiot leaders here, destroy our nuclear weapons and their delivery systems, China or anyone else for that matter isn't a problem.
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Old 11-20-10, 11:52 PM   #40
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Until some idiot leaders here, destroy our nuclear weapons and their delivery systems, China or anyone else for that matter isn't a problem.
Unless some geeks sitting at a computer develop a countermeasure... or a better bomb...

... pray they are our geeks...
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Old 11-21-10, 09:11 AM   #41
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Unless some geeks sitting at a computer develop a countermeasure... or a better bomb...

... pray they are our geeks...
thats enough war-games for you
go watch something else
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Old 11-21-10, 11:09 AM   #42
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thats enough war-games for you
go watch something else
How about a nice game of chess?
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Old 11-21-10, 02:17 PM   #43
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Photographed at the latest Chinese air show...



This one is from a while ago and is probably in service by now...
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Old 11-21-10, 02:28 PM   #44
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Now they're just being silly...

Ah well, you make a good design you've got to expect people to ape it, after all, you don't put millions of dollars into R&D to find the most efficient airflow shape, you wait for the other rich guy to do it and then google it.

Or there's the Tu-4 approach...
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Old 11-21-10, 02:47 PM   #45
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Or there's the Tu-4 approach...
We have a winner....

Six Tomahawks went down in Pakistan in 1998 on their way to AQ targets in Afghanistan. Look what then showed up a few years latter...

Pakistani Babur LACM:


Chinese DH-10 LACM

Chinese C-602 ASM/LACM



How many UAVs have we lost over Pakistan? I bet Pakistan got a nice discount on their new Chendgu JF-17 jets for handing over the wreckage.
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