Here’s a great shot from China Defense Blog of China’s J-20 stealth fighter alongside Russia’s Sukhoi PAK FA and the American F-22 Raptor.
I’m no low-observable design expert, but the undersides of the Raptor and J-20 look a heck of a lot cleaner than the Russian jet. This fits reports that the jet’s design trades stealth for increased maneuverability compared to the F-22.
Also, where’s the space for the internal weapons bay on the PAK FA; between the engines, forward of what looks like an aft-EW suite? It’s been reported that the weapons are carried there and in the two bulbs that can bee seen next to the air intakes.
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I thought I read somewhere that the PAK-FA would have a cleaner underside when the final engines were developed. Anybody if this is true?
I dont know about all that but it sure does look alot like we are selling to many secrets to China. Everything we have the Commies have. If we keep going on like this we will end up the 2 super power with China in the lead. We need to keep it all to ourselves.
Wow. A photo told you all that?
More likely true. The final engines should be much more "stealthier".
It's more likely true. Future engines for PAK-FA should be 'stealthier' with a meansures to reduce IR and radar signatures.
The J-20 looks like a box or a toy; Totally unsophisticated (looking). Those exposed engines on the PAK-FA will make nice IR targets. Agree and have said before that the PAK FA is too small to carry stores internally, while the J-20 looks too large for the air-air role.
Isn't the PAK-FA larger than our F-22?
"Those exposed engines on the PAK-FA will make nice IR targets. "
No. The current( intermediate) engine of flying T-50-1 (first PAK-FA fighter jet) is Saturn's 117. It's has some meansures to significantly reduce IR-signature: exhaust cooling (due engine design) and widely separated engines. These should work great at supercruise speeds.
With the afterburner, F-22's engine(like engine of any other fighter jet) has a quite large IR-signature (look at airshow IR-photos with F-22 demonstration).
"Those exposed engines on the PAK-FA will make nice IR targets. "
No. The current( intermediate) engine of flying T-50-1 (first PAK-FA fighter jet) is Saturn's 117. It's has some meansures to significantly reduce IR-signature: exhaust cooling (due engine design) and widely separated engines. These should work great at supercruise speeds.
With the afterburner, F-22's engine(like engine of any other fighter jet) has a quite large IR-signature (look at airshow IR-photos with F-22 demonstration).
not too large: j-20 could carry long range air to air missiles.
The J-20 has those cannards forward which will make likely more manuverable at low speeds but restrict its speed and create alot of drag.
The F-22 is the superior of the 3. That said the DoD and such seem to have decided to go with mass producing a inferior plane compared to what our enemies will be fielding with the J-20 and the PAK-FA. F-35's will die in droves if the have to fight one of there basterds.
Restart the F-22 line sell them to Japan also and buy a couple hundred more atleast for the airforce. Lose some of the F35s and F-15s. Transfere the A-10's and AC-130's to the army.
The US actually plans to keep and upgrade it's F-15's with massive radars to provide "mini AWACS" capabilities while the F-22's sneak around and flank the enemy.
Article: http://student-view-world.blogspot.com/2011/01/us…
Since when was China and the Russian Federation our enemies? They're rivals at most, but nowhere near being enemies.
See there is this little word you must add to that sentence. Yet it changes everything.
'…nowhere near being enemies, Now."
Generals and politicans have seen countless plans destroyed by the march of time.
And people sell these planes to those who are or could also become our enemies.
Even if I do not believe that China and the Russian Federation are confronting us in thr future .I believe that we gonna confront Chinese and Russian weapons everywhere.
You must not read Russian and Chinese blogs and news commentaries (partial-to fully government controlled). Basically they say "The U.S is the main threat to our expansion, and we must build up our military to counter them."
blogs are exactly like comments on the websites – full of uneducated and emotional opinion.
i'd say that partnership with the usa only benefits those two countries due to the size of the us market (although that is partially diminished now in favor of the india and china). the partnership doens't need to be ideological of course, let them run their countries the way they want to.
Continuing F-22 production would also save about 50,000 US jobs. If we sell to Japan and other allies (Aus and Israel also wanted to buy it) we could recoup development costs. We could also upgrade the F-22 using the newer software developed for the F35.
F-22s based in Japan would be the best possible tacair deterrant to China. F-22 carries 8x AAM vs 4x on the F-35.
The alternative is that the Americans are concerned that a nation could flip and field this stuff against American forces. Just like Iran was receiving America's latest and greatest before the revolution. I imagine shipping stuff to nations for decades and watching them fall got unpleasant after a while.
I've been waiting for a nice photo like this comparing the three.
The J-20's engines corrupt attempts to gain any stealth, along with those fins in the aft.
A large enough weapons bay will be built into the T-50. Russia doesn't need excessive space as their missiles aren't much larger than ones developed by the US.
the PAK FA doesn't have DSI (diverterless sup. inlet)?
The PAK-FA has two internal bays, positioned in tandem, between the engines. Depending on type, it can carry 4-8 AAMs internally for "Day One" missions.
The Russians decided for a good "bow tie" stealth profile instead of going all-aspect F-22 LO, to keep costs down – whether that is a smart move is still to be decided, as PAK-FA still needs to be mass produced.
I doubt that the PAK-FA will be that much cheaper, when you consider relative economic strength. The PAK-FA is still going to be a huge, low-unit purchase for Russia and its partners.
relative to the Indian economy?
Russia is only talking about a final total of 100-200.
The PAK-FA has four internal weapons bays.
To me they seem to be copies of American and European designs that pak fa = f22 and the j-20 = the Eurofighter or they probably purchased the design from the failed Russian program mig 1.44 did not have the funding. From other pictures I’ve seen the j20 resembles the yf 23.
On Chinese forums, there are rumors about how the J-20 design is a mix of stoled/acquired data from both 1.44 AND the F-35 (supposedly from Israel).
What the hell?
I love how you are blaming Israel (!) for any supposed F-35 data when Israel doesn't have either the damn planes or source code!
Jeez, people like to beat up on that little country for anything, real or not.
Israel is one of the biggest spies working inside of America. I believe in number of agents caught every year it goes 1. China 2. Israel 3. Russia
Who says we aren't spying on them too? That does not make Israel an opponent…..
Citation?
J-10 is the Eurofighter clone, if anything. China has plenty of design and operational experience with canards by now.
FWIW, fit and finish on the J-10 looks pretty good (though I am no expert).
Without digressing into support for the Raptors, we must move past these air craft to the next level. I am glad to see the logic of a super F-22B is not lost in discussions of the new bomber. In the modern battle field it must have the attributes of these air craft above on steroids…..
http://www.aviationweek.com/aw/blogs/defense/inde…
We need stealth, super cruise, advanced avionics and payload capacity. We should up grade our Raptors, but the next level is shaping up to be our best move. A stealthy, multi-role manned bomber may end up being the last manned air craft of significance we produce before the Era of smart drones and DEW.
They could be as game changing as this was 100 years ago today: http://www.wired.com/thisdayintech/2011/01/0118fi…
Obviously the F22 is likely to be the more sophisticated plane, given that the US has been at the forefront of aerospace technology for a century. However, it seems to me that the 3 key questions are these:
1. The J20 probably isn't a match for the F22, but how long before they build something that is? They've already come a long way in a short time.
2. How many J20s can they afford compared to how many F22s the US can afford? Especially given that Uncle Sam will have to borrow the money from China to buy them.
3. Why are we worrying about F22/F35 vs J20 when none of them are any use against the RPG/IED toting hordes of central Asia. China and the West both need stability and trade, the mullahs don't. Time to realise we're on the same team.
Yes because they will give us 20 to 30 years warning before they become our enemies.
One cant predict the future for the next 15-20 years very accuratly. Designing and building a modern fighter takes a LONG time. We once considered many of our enemies our frineds and visversa.
You never know what the future holds you have to be prepared for anything.
And dont get arrogant enough to think just because YOU want peace and to live as allies or on terms that are peaceful that they will or always will.
Amen to that; today's nonexistent threats can easily become tomorrow's frighteningly real threats. We need to stay ahead in the arms race to ensure we can defend our interests on tomorrow's battlefields…..
On the other hand, if we don't attempt to narrow down the state space of scenarios for which we attempt to plan for military dominance, we can predict with near certainty that we'll end up economically ruined.
This statement hints at informed moderation and betrays a wholesale lack of paranoia. Why are you here?
http://www.aviationweek.com/aw/generic/story_gene…
We shouldn't get hysterical either unless that's part of the misdirect. Falcon and other projects are a far bigger worry to China than their spending billions on a product that will still be inferior to a 40 year design US product come 2020 is to us.
Please, while I agree that China may eventually become our enemy, I give it at LEAST 50 more years. They've invested a great deal in our country and vice versa – to fight would be completely stupid.
"3. Why are we worrying about F22/F35 vs J20 when none of them are any use against the RPG/IED toting hordes of central Asia. China and the West both need stability and trade, the mullahs don't. Time to realise we're on the same team."
I'll start trusting China when they stop bullying other countries around, the way they treat Vietnam & the Philippines over territorial waters is awful & the constant bickering with South Korea & Japan has to stop.
Unfortunately, the next BIG war will Probably be started by china one way or another.
No one should completely trust anyone because I agree that the future is highly unpredictable and China, like any other country, will try and get the best deal for itself using whatever leverage it can muster. In the real world, big countries push little countries around and the idea of an American accusing the Chinese of bullying the Vietnamese (even though they do) probably strikes them as a bit hypocritical.
If we treat China like we think they're going to start the next big war, then that paranoia makes war with them much more likely – self-fulfilling prophesy and all that. Meanwhile the real nutjobs keep slipping through on 737s, not J20s. We should always keep a big stick, but we shouldn't forget the talking softly bit.
Let me just rewrite part of your sentence –
''I'll start trusting the US when they stop bullying other countries around, the way they treated Iraq & Afghanistan is awful & the constant bickering with North Korea, China & Iran has to stop. ''
How interesting to see things from a non-US perspective. There are other nations and peoples in the world who have very different views. The US view of colonialism is not the best example.
Totally agree. Can't think of any powerful country in history which hasn't bullied others when it suited them.
We are not perfect, but I would say we have a much better record than many of the other nations who took a hand a colonizing…..
@ SC578 and MDB, you have to stop assuming everyone is a yank, I'm from Australia, all this stuff is happening right in my back yard, we may be big geographically, but our population is tiny, if China goes on a rampage across Asia we are the ones in the firing line. :-/
To paraphrase a former Aussie PM; God save America, because nothing will save Australia!
Again, stealth is more than a design. It's materials. If shape were the only quality to low observability, blimps would be in the forefront of aero-design. And while LO is acheived, it isn't complete. Operations are designed to avoid detection by avoiding enemy radar installations.
And then there is the obvious, if any are seen by eye, no amount of stealth will help. Then it's plane vs plane, pilot vs pilot and in those circumstances, I like our chances more than China's or Russia's.
By the time the J-20 is filling the skies it would be profoundly gratifying the US drops some pictures here of a new US stealth fighter built with materials and avionics far beyond anything China has. It can bend light and even reduce its optical profile.
I don't know what would be more shocking then -that China hadn't already stolen the designs or that we actually used our brains and money in strategic brilliance.
Of course there's the matter of what air delivery will carry. From E bombs to DEW pods, from hypersonics to missile defense, size matters. The pictures above aren't the same magnification. The J-20 is longer than the F-22. External pods and munitions scrapes stealth significantly. Another design flaw of these "low budget" air craft…lol.
excuse me, I meant bomber not fighter, as in the new bomber interest of late……
Rather that look at a 1-to-1 comparison, imaging a mass producted J-20 with sub-F-22 capability but still in the ball park. Then put 5 x J-20 vs 1 x F-22 dogfight (and scale that). It an't going to be pretty but in a numbers game China will win.
They don't have to equal the F-22 they just have to get in the ball park and then outnumber them.
That's really not germane to the technical comparison, though. On the strategic level, China's numbers advantages could be countered through a wide variety of methods, like standoff attacks against airbases and long range anti-air systems based in Korea or Taiwan. This is a pure discussion of the tactical-level technological comparison.
Sorry, I just don't see J-20s seeking dog fights. The strategy of working with F-15s seems sufficient to counter the numbers as F-15s are being loaded with better radar. And missiles matter. I expect drones in the mix as well. Stealthy drones with A to A. The J-20 seems a small bomber designed to hit assets past our perimeter defense more than engaging fighters, though towards other countries they could easily have that role.
Can you assess Chinese A to A radar capabilities? The real stealth of the J-20? Wouldn't a new advanced bomber send China a more serious message than 100 more Raptors? And I'm a big fan….
even this is more disconcerting to them…. http://www.wired.com/dangerroom/2011/01/pentagons…
I've never seen any evidence of a Chinese capability to manufacture modern radars domestically. If I remember correctly, the U.S.S.R. shipped a bunch of MiGs through China to Vietnam, and China shipped them out with horribly low-tech gear instead of the (then) modern radars.
Just wait until we bring out the railguns, the armies of robots including the Big Dog that can navigate almost any terrain and maintain it's balance while carrying huge amounts of supplies, the ultra wide band cameras that let us see through walls, the smart bullets that correct their trajectory to hit targets in addition to our l intercepting-missile lasers, LRADs, XM-25s and all the stuff we DON'T know about.
We're developing power armor right in public view, yet very few recognize what's going on.
We're one next generation power source away from giant mechs.
Add that to the invisibility cloaks and carbon nanotube fibers that absorb light and trap it for snipers on top of the weapon systems that allow them to hit a target from around 2 miles away with an explosive round.
Our boys are deploying iPhones and iPads into the field for advanced data management and issuance of orders while tracking the battlefield in real-time.
We almost had electric, automated tanks.
A Chinese stealth fighter is no threat to us, especially with a fleet of Raptors and pilots who have actual EXPERIENCE piloting them.
I would love to see a J-20 in it's first dog fight against a Raptor with an experienced pilot.
I'm ranting, but you get the idea…
I would hate to see the outcome of what happens when we load all this technology onto our troops, and an EMP goes off or someone hacks into the system and shuts it all down.
Modern Warfare 2 D.C. mission anyone?…..
F-35, Need I say more.
No one in their right mind would think somthing that is ment to face a F22 could be stopped with a short ranged strike fighter.
My observations to this all being at same size, the Chinese version seems to have the largest volume , thus can carry the most fuel.
I'd like to know which is the largest because if the Chinese version does have the most fuel capacity it is then created for only one use, to get to us.
I would have hoped by now Russia and China would be at peace with NATO even apart of it…
Logistically we have the advantage being spread over planet but China has the future capability of out numbering us on every weapon in conventional warfare 5 fold atleast.
Dont believe it has supre cruise also its design means it will have to deal with more drag.
All of this means more fuel consumption. Plus they may also see a future in turning it into a F/B or it may just be to have more missiles.
The PICTURES are the same size – not the planes themselves. The J-20 is about 1/3 longer than the f-22 … look at the jet exhaust for a quick scale – then do some research.
From looking at it, and reading other's posts, it seems very likely that the J-20, should it ever be produced and have half of the capability we think it has, is more about stealth attack than air-air. Still, I don't believe it will be mass produced, deployed, and stealthy.
I think your right, it looks to me to be more of a fighter bomber for penetrating Taiwanese air defences, than an air-superiority fighter.
I think we will see China's real answer to the F-22 and PAK-FA in 5-10 years. The J-20 is just their attempt at an FB-22.
Its totally pointless to comment on the design of the T-50 / PAK FA and J-20 compared to the F-22A at this early stage in their development. The T-50 prototype is just that – a prototype (for aerodynamic purposes), with no account being made for the numerous low-RCS optimizations to be made later in development. Same with the J-20.
Good. Then they will still be at least one gen behind us.
Strange thinking.
The first flying protypes should not look like a completed serial production models. They are for aerodynamic purposes only.
RCS optimization were done at the airframe development stage.
Advanced composite materials and radar-absorbent coating were developed before.
PAK-FA has 30% composite materials in its construction, this includes more than 70% composites on the surface of fuselage, according to developers.
Exactly. The current F-22A design differs from the original YF-22 design as shown here: http://www.globalsecurity.org/military/systems/ai…
So there's a good chance that the T-50/PAK FA and J-20 will see similar optimizations/changes later on.
Not that many differences. If there are differences, it might also be based on surface angles which wouldn't even come out at all on a dorsal drawing of YF and F-22.
When was the last time a Russian or Chinese plane varied from prototype to production model?
China got stealth tech from Russia: U.S lawmaker
http://www.spacewar.com/reports/China_got_stealth…
Probably the Mig 1.44 like the rumors have been saying.
Not that surprised, actually.
F-117 info was hacked by china.
"My understanding is that they built it on information that they received from Russia, from a Russian plane, that they were able to copy," House Armed Services Committee Chairman Buck McKeon told reporters.
Read article?
The F-117 was brought down by "inferior" Serbian air defenses, and the fragments were scattered to the four winds.
The PAK-FA has four internal weapons bays:
1) Two elongated bays between the engines for various types of missiles:
- Anti-ship cruise missiles (up to 2 in two bays)
- The successor of R-37 ultra-long range air-to-air missiles (up to 4 in two bays). The killer of AWACS, aerial tankers and bombers with the range ~400KM (~250 miles). It could be used against targets such as fighter jets with max G-load >8G.
- Medium range missiles, new generation of R-77 with significantly improved range (>200 Km). (Up to 8 missiles in two bays)
- Air-to-ground missiles including anti-radiation missiles (up to 2-4 in two bays)
+ Optional external pylons for weapons
2) Two side weapons bays for short-rage air-air missiles
- The successor of R-73/R-74 "dogfight" missile (2 missiles in two bays)
The issue of manueverability J-20 verus F-22A is the J-20 uses the Eurofighter canard approach and teh F-22A uses vectored thrust. Vectored thrust will give more uniform results and doesn't change with altitude and temperature. The issue of stealth remains to be seen on the J-20, looks like a knockoff from the Typhoon to me.
Call it a knockoff but really how many different ways is there to build a fighter in general and a stealth fighter specifically. The tube with wings approach seems to work well for fighters. The Typhoon, Gripen and Rafale all have canards. Did they copy off each other too…probably. Like the saying goes, don't fix what ain't broke. The general shape you see in those pictures probably represent the optimum shape for low observable. Sure each manufacturer would tweak it to their spec based on their design philosophy but really how much can you deviate from the math before its too far?
Thinking about the size of the thing…if you wanted to extend your reach over the water but you didn't have viable carriers or island FOBs, a long range fighter-bomber is one of the things you'd need.
Comparing fighter to F22 on from the same viewpoint is wrong ,PAK-FA and J20 are meant to operate on their own turf (or close territory ,Taiwan,Georgia )with good radar and AAM coverage F22 and JSF on the other hand are both meant to operate over foreign land possibly in well defended airspace and that means they need stealth much more that the opposition +stealth is rapidly deminishing with new radar technology which will definetly be a problem for JSF that is one trick pony
Russia still strongly believes super-manuverability is a key feature for fighters, whether they be stealth or not.
Anyone else getting anoyed at how slow this site has become?
It's because of their new video service " fliqz.com" it loads all the videos on the page you hit and slows everything to a crawl. It's old tech ( which it is ) or they haven't really adjusted the setting properly in the control panel. DOD Buz is the same.
"Russia still strongly believes super-manuverability is a key feature for fighters, whether they be stealth or not."
Yes, PAK-FA was designed with a superior manuverability in mind. Thats why:
- Large wings and underfuselage tunnel for better lift generation
- Small all-moving vertical tails that gives not only superior supersonic manoeuvrability, but also gives advantage for reduction of radar visibility.
- Movable LERX. Better balancing capability and additional agility which is much better and smarter solution than non-stealthy canards on J-20.
- Widely separated engines for 3D thrust-vectoring. It also gives a better IR-signature reduction and survivability.
As for stealth, i could agree. Russians didn't forget about it too. Just look at fronal view of the T-50-1. It's definitely stealth airframe with a very large usage of composite materials. Production model would have radar absorbent coating, frameless canopy and "stealthy" engines.
Russians taking BVR capability very seriously as well. Thats why PAK-FA will have FIVE radars (main and side-looking X-band, L-band), integrated 360-degreee IRST, new generation of air-air missiles (some of these missiles with a notably long range).
I wish they hadn't cut IRST from the F-22 (they might regret that). Russian missiles, though modern, lack real combat experience.
Personally I believe the ideal F-22C would include the two once-planned AESA side arrays, the cut AIRST, and perhaps something like the F-35's EODAS.
But besides for the F-22 I believe the USAF needs something rather larger to serve as a fighter-bomber. The FB-22 looks promising but so does the FB-23, and I'm sure there are a few other designs aerospace companies might offer.
What has indicated the IRST on the PAK-FA is 360-degree? Also the two L-band radars are of questionable utility. Even if they are somewhat better at detecting stealth aircraft they are significantly smaller and less capable than the main X-band radar.
"What has indicated the IRST on the PAK-FA is 360-degree?"
AFAIK Russian officials talked about "spherical situation awareness, search, track and fire control" of new IR/electro-optical sensors system on PAK-FA.
"Also the two L-band radars are of questionable utility. Even if they are somewhat better at detecting stealth aircraft they are significantly smaller and less capable than the main X-band radar."
True. "Anti-stealth" capabilitiy of L-band radars is very questionable.
Personally, I think Russia has it right. It's only a matter of time (if they don't already have the capability) before the Russians develop AESA/radars similar to our own, capable of tracking F-22s and F-35s despite their 'stealth.' At that point, it won't matter which plane is stealthier, the aircraft capable of outmaneuvering the other (more importantly, avoiding the opponents missiles) is going to be the winner.
I like the pictoral comparison. Shouldn't the F-35 be up there too?
Its not the most stealthy fighter the U.S has.
Nor is it a real fighter. Atleast not when compared with the above.
We don't know if the J-20 is a fighter yet; from what I'm hearing, it's more likely to be a attack plane or fighter-bomber like the F-35…..
A FEW YEARS A GO I READ ABOUT CHINA OPTAINING INTELL ON A TWIN ENGINE FIGHTER THAT WAS A JOINT US AND ISERIAL PROJECT F 10 SCRAPPED CANT HELP BUT WONDER
You are thinking about the Lavi, which is said to be the base for China's J-10. Which btw China is having a hard time selling abroad. You can buy a slightly used F-16 for the same price.
Pakistan has apparently been trying to buy it, but can't. The main reason seems to be that PLAAF requirements come first, which is logical when you think about it.
J-10 is a neat looking plane in the flesh. No idea how it goes / will go in combat, but it's a definite crowd pleaser at air shows.
I said it once, I said it a 100 times. Stop this stupid rumor that the J-10 was developed from the Lavi!
We all know by now that Israel did not transfer any Lavi related technology to China. The J-10 was already proven not to be developed from the Lavi, but from the canceled J-9 project.
http://military.china.com/zh_cn/news/568/
Quote:
“Our nation’s new fighter’s external design and aerodynamics configuration are completely made by us and did not receive foreign assistance, this made me very proud. Our nation developed J-9 in the 1960s, this adopted the canard configuration. So, those statements that said J-10 is a copy of Israeli Lavi are just laughable.” – General designer of J-10, Mr. Song Wencong
http://www.aerospaceweb.org/aircraft/fighter/j10/
There are absolutely zero facts in that article that show that Israel colluded with China to make the Lavi.
All there is are rumors that Israeli COMPANIES may have assisted and some anonymous Russian engineer saying that the whole plane [Lavi] was there, you try and see if that passes in any court.
This whole China US comparison is funny.When did China ever tell us the truth about anything.What if they have something even better than the J-20 or if the J-20 is a complete farce just by looking at it.I see life in this way, competition is good and it makes you better yet still I think we need to accept the challenge when we are given one.We can build fighters better than anybody if we want to. Just restricted at times by our own politics.
I don't see no weapons bay on the J-20 either I think its inferior to both the F-22 and PAK-FA. I also see w/o vectored thrust its far less maneuverable to the F-22A and F-15 as well. It'll be 5 to 10 years before we see production aircraft so I wouldn't worry anyway. Keep F-22s F-15s and dump the F-35 and go for either the EF-2000 or a new lighter fighter for support.
All this hype over China is unfounded since most of there weapons are still Junk in quality. there quantity is more fearful.
They are flush underneath. Search for J-20 pics.
Lance you have no clue. Junk in quality my ass.
Or serve to justify the paranoia of other people, but sure, your idea could be true too. Let's call it a point of contention. But I think we can all agree that they don't get invited to dinner parties as often.
It doesn't matter if the highbrows approve; history only remembers those who survived. If keeping the U.S. ahead military requires paranoia, so be it…..
So you want to dump the F-35 and totally abandon the entire U.S.
Tac air, and strike force?
Do you really believe the J-20 or the T-50 are more stealthy than the F35?
What about the navy marines and allies?
The amount of Ignorance pm the F-35 has become sickening
To all the arm chair procurement folks Stop with the F-22 restart BS. It's not going to happen!!!! It's done. We need tankers, not mig chasers right now. We need "Something" for the USMC & RN Fleet Air Arm. Most of all, Till Bin Laden get Air power, the DOD money is not going into fast jets.
No one is saying that we don't need new tankers or a hundred other things. We do have to be ready to oppose Chinese weapons, as there is no telling if we will encounter them in the hands of bin Laden's buddies…..
just buy more F-22A block 35 increment 3.3 version, a thousand of them! Retire most the legacy fighter for example for every 40 plane F-22's bought retire 100 hundreds of the legacy fighter! Just for the navy just buy the navalized F-22, 576 of them. Buy buy the next generation bomber 300 of them! Lastly for close air support use the F-35B!
How you do this demobilized all your base around the world. cancel all foreign aids all over the wolrd, the sole jobs of the president to defend the country FIRST, let defend their country by themselves, idf they CANT they have no rights to be a nation
LOL China isn't the only country making bootleg materials. Nice Knock Off versions of the Raptor though.
What remains interesting is the use of a combination of L-band and X-band radars, the former as a means of mitigating X-band optimized Low-observability. However, until it goes up against F-22 it remains to be seen if such a feature works in the field.
now thass funny raht thar, I don't care who ya are….
I never said we didnt. But you never seen stolen Israeli tech show up in America.
And what "stolen" American tech has shown up in Israel?
So even though we give Israel billions of dollars every year in financial and military aid, and protect them from UN security council action, its ok for them to be one of the biggest spies inside of the U.S? Because you certainly make it sound that way.
http://www.jonathanpollard.org/2007/050807.htm
You are incredibly naive if you think that allies don't spy on each other.
Let me ask you this, do you think that the U.S. does not spy on Israel?
Sure we do, but only a little bit. Not massivly like Israel does. You are just another Israeli apologist. They can do no wrong in your eyes.
Of course, it's easier to label someone something negative than to look at facts.
Check out this cool concept called proportion. As in where there would be more spies in a country of 312 million people and 3,794,083 square miles than in a country of 7.5 million people and 7,951 (!) square miles.
They play by slightly different rules than we do, being threatened with extinction every time they get seriously attacked. At least they don't believe a religion that advocates running planes into skyscrapers…..