First Pictures of Chinese Stealth Fighter

Frosty Piss writes "The first clear pictures of what appears to be a Chinese stealth fighter prototype have been published online. The photographs, published on several unofficial Chinese and foreign defense-related websites, appear to show a J-20 prototype making a high-speed taxi test — usually one of the last steps before an aircraft makes its first flight — according to experts on aviation and China's military. Several experts said the prototype's body appeared to borrow from the F-22 and other US stealth aircraft. The US cut funding for the F-22 in 2009 in favor of the F-35, a smaller, cheaper stealth fighter that made its first test flight in 2006 and is expected to be fully deployed by around 2014."

Someone help me out here.

[icannotthinkofaname]

Pictures of a stealth fighter.

If I can get pictures of it, is it really all that stealthy?

Why the Chinese need stealth

[snsh]

Next time there's a rally in Tiananmen Square, the world won't see an iconic image of a protester standing in front of a row of tanks. The protester will instead be standing in front a stealth fighter jet, but the stealth fighter jet will be invisible to cameras, making the photo uninteresting.

Re:Invented in US? Made in China.

[ozbird]

And that their plans include putting China back into the center of the world, where they believe it rightfully belongs?

Good idea - then we'll only have to dig half as far to get there.

Re:Someone help me out here.

[Shadow Wrought]

Not to mention that the Cessna would be flying at 70,000 feet.

What, yours can't? :-)

Re:Someone help me out here.

[Chris Burke]

Tadah! Captain Literal shits on another joke!

How is it possible to defecate on an expression of humor? I mean maybe one could shit on a fixed representation of a joke, like a joke book, but this is on the internet, so I can only guess you just crapped on your monitor. Which seems like a pointless and self-defeating gesture if I may say so.

Or am I taking Captain Literal too literally?

Re:Someone help me out here.

[freeasinrealale]

The fighter plane you see in the pictures is a Russian YAK-69. The Chines stealth fighter is the one in front of it.