Bill also points to this piece of history from another source:
In the past year (2009) alone, Lockheed Martin found “six to eight companies” among its subcontractors “had been totally compromised – emails, their networks, everything” according to Lockheed Martin chief information security officer Anne Mullins.
He sees the F-35 if the short-take-off-vertical-landing (STOVL)was not a requirement. STOVL design requirements have caused numerous problems with all 3 F-35 variants.
It will be interesting to see what mission sets China expects out of the J-21. I still think this design is complementary to the J-20 for achieving regional air supremacy.
It is obvious that the compromised U.S. data has born fruit. If it were me designing this thing, I would have built the center section around the F-22 main weapon's bay. It is a better bay for performance aircraft.
I suppose the coming months will see how far these assumptions go.
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Considering we now have two aircraft sharing all kinds of design features with the Lockmart stealth twins, it should be pretty obvious that a huge amount of data has been stolen on both the F-22 and the F-35.
I'm curious if they also got the fiber mat stealth material from the JSF Program that's supposed to be better to maintain that the materials used for the F-22.
On another note, I'm wondering if the gaps between the airframe and the engines is a Chinese version of TVC that's nonfunctional at this point.
Just keep repeating the mantra, maneuverability is irrelevant!
hmmmm: flashback to the Soviet Union's copy of the Space Shuttle. The J-21 "looks" like a wonderful P.O.S. that will be a huge threat just as soon as the douchey Chinese Communists deploy their world-wide in-flight refueling infrastructure... oh, right.
Spoken like someone still living in the cold war days.
They have another stealth fighter that won't need very much in-flight refueling and this is NOT a product of the USSR, it's a real 5th gen fighter.
http://www.ausairpower.net/PLA-AF/Chengdu-J-XX-VLO-Prototype-42S.jpg
to Anon: "...won't need very much in-flight refueling..." I will, of course, defer to hard numbers when it comes to range, Peoples' Liberation Crash-Force skill & so forth & so on. The question is: do they have 5th generation command, control, communication? What will they do: occupy Vietnam? Manila? Life's eternal questions in the Eastern Hemishpere... but do we wait to get our pink panties in a bunch --- or do we order Kung-Pow Shrimp w/ Egg rolls? yum.
Vietnam, Manila?
Is that not how the Japanese started out?
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