China's Stealth Fighter Flight Test Successful 161
New submitter vencs writes "China has successfully tested its second stealth fighter, a smaller, twin-engine jet that military analysts said could potentially allow it to one day fly missions from an aircraft carrier. Military analysts said the new jet's design suggested the People's Liberation Army might use it to arm and escort aircraft carriers like the Liaoning, which was officially deployed last month. Andrei Chang, editor-in-chief of Kanwa Asian Defense Monthly, said the new prototype appears to have borrowed features from the U.S. Air Force's twin-engine F-22 and U.S. Navy's single-engine F-35C."
Klaus Fuchs (Score:1, Informative)
Nobody reacted that way when the Soviets and Chinese got the Bomb
Re:It ain't expensive to build a stealth plane... (Score:2, Informative)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shooting_down_of_F-117 [wikipedia.org]
The U.S. has lost at least one stealth aircraft that other countries could use to reverse engineer the stealth design/stealth coating.
Re:It ain't expensive to build a stealth plane... (Score:4, Informative)
"Do they have direct access to the planes?"
Only if they went along to the last arms symposium and bought some. You do realise that things like that are available to all? I went to some when I used to work for the military and there was everyone there buying everything they wanted. Even countries like Indonesia who wanted some fighters to shoot some of their more troublesome plebs but they had to buy 2 seaters and call them training aids because they were not allowed to buy anything called a fighter. As I was working with IT at the time I was wearing a badge that said "Information Services" and everyone kept moving away from me for some reason.