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  • China flexes thier growing military muscle

    http://www.nytimes.com

    China Rolls Out Its First Stealth Aircraft
    By MICHAEL WINES

    BEIJING — China’s first radar-evading stealth fighter staged a runway test at an airbase in central China on Wednesday and could make its first flight as early as Thursday afternoon, the Hong Kong editor of a Canadian military journal said.

    But the nation’s state-run media, which called news of the tests “rumors” in Wednesday’s newspapers, sought to play down reports about the aircraft’s capabilities. And comments about the new jet’s test regimen abruptly disappeared from blogs run by Chinese military enthusiasts.

    The American magazine Aviation Week & Space Technology first reported on tests of the new plane, designated the J-20, in an article released on Monday. Military analysts say that photographs of the new jet on the tarmac at an airfield near Chengdu, have been appearing on blogs since mid-December.

    Andrei Chang, the editor of Kanwa Defense Weekly in Hong Kong, said in a telephone interview on Wednesday that he had been authoritatively told that the jet will make its first test flight on Thursday, weather permitting.

    He said Chinese officials appeared to have deliberately allowed word of the tests to become public, even to the point of bringing the jet to a Chengdu airfield, Factory 132 of the city’s aircraft design institute, that is commonly watched by military hobbyists, in a bid to display the nation’s growing military sophistication.

    Defense Secretary M. Robert Gates is set to arrive in Beijing on Sunday to meet his Chinese counterpart, resuming top-level military consultations that have been all but frozen since the White House announced a $6 billion arms sale to Taiwan last January 29.

    “They want to show the U.S., show Mr. Gates, their muscle,” Mr. Chang said.

    Although the growth of China’s officially disclosed military budget slowed in 2010, the country remains in the midst of a swift expansion and modernization, much of it centered on improving air, sea and space capabilities.

    Chinese military officials say their buildup is entirely defensive. Most analysts say the military’s expansion is part of a long-range strategy to transform the armed forces from a domestic power to a regional one, and ultimately to a force with global reach like that of the United States.

    The People’s Liberation Army Navy is reported to be building an aircraft carrier, the first of several that the Pentagon says could be deployed by 2020. The head of the United States Pacific Command, Admiral Robert Willard, told a Japanese newspaper last month that a long-anticipated anti-ship ballistic missile, designed to strike other aircraft carriers, had reached an “initial operational capability.”

    Navy officials later amended that, saying that the Chinese have a workable design but that it has yet to be tested.

    In news reports, military analysts have suggested that the J-20 remains well behind both Russia’s T-50 jet and the two American stealth aircraft, the F-22 and F-35, in technical sophistication and radar-evading ability. Mr. Chang said the jet’s shortcomings likely include a Chinese-manufactured engine that is substantially inferior to those of its competitors.

    Photographs of the jet, taken at the airfield and posted on Chinese Web sites, show an aircraft that mimics the design of the American F-22 Raptor. Aviation Week said that the plane appeared designed to carry larger weapons than the F-22, and analysts said it would be capable of launching cruise missiles and being refueled in midair.

    Military analysts quoted in Wednesday’s South China Morning Post said that it would probably take the Chinese a decade to produce the J-20 in large numbers. Mr. Chang said that the military likely would need another 10 to 15 years to develop a stealth fighter equivalent to the advanced models in the United States and Russia.


    Benjamin Haas and Xiyun Yang contributed research.
    "‎It is easier to build strong children than to repair broken men" - Frederick Douglass

  • #2
    Yep...saw this on Aviation Week and also on military tech sites a couple weeks ago...it's getting wider circ now..

    Beijing still behind but on the move big time...mek di amphibian dem who nuh si wat ah gwaan...mek dem gwaan simma..LOL!
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    • #3
      Babylon and dem follarahs need to keep up...

      In Jamaica di two biggest embassy are there for all to see.. we got it covered..

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      • #4
        Yup rejoice and be exceedingly glad. Just remember that china's military expansion is inversely propotional to Ja's stability (you are bright so go figure it out). It's one thing: Ye Jakan intellectuals head tough bad. You guys don't believe in studying history hence you seem stuck in a situation akin to the movie "ground hog day".

        It does not bode well for Ja. Now on the military side: if the above jets work in battle theatre is another story This matrix too deep fi unnuh. Tell them fi sell couple to syria and friends.

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        • #5
          millitary export

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          • #6
            be more explicit because I know that stealth technology is not just sold as how you would sell blu rays or lcd tvs.

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            • #7
              please identify the rejoicing in my statement... is it the imagery of simmering amphibians? Mi neva tes dem ...but mi ear seh French peeple an Haitian love dat

              thanks in advance..
              TIVOLI: THE DESTRUCTION OF JAMAICA'S EVIL EMPIRE

              Recognizing the victims of Jamaica's horrendous criminality and exposing the Dummies like Dippy supporting criminals by their deeds.. or their silence.

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              • #8
                As I said this not a joke but serious business. People are playing for keeps.

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                • #9
                  the world is changing...nothing is sacred...not even your cows
                  TIVOLI: THE DESTRUCTION OF JAMAICA'S EVIL EMPIRE

                  Recognizing the victims of Jamaica's horrendous criminality and exposing the Dummies like Dippy supporting criminals by their deeds.. or their silence.

                  D1 - Xposing Dummies since 2007

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                  • #10
                    Hence what? We should not discuss it? Or we should spin it in the way we HOPE it will turn out?

                    Not understanding what you saying at all Jawge.
                    "‎It is easier to build strong children than to repair broken men" - Frederick Douglass

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                    • #11
                      mi watch every iteration of Star Trek from Kirk to Picard.. is ongly 2 Chiney mi evah si innah di command.. ebryting run from Babylon same way...

                      Dem land pon di Moon over 40 years ago and send one robot to Mars wheh day..

                      Cyaan tek di hype up ting..

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                      • #12
                        Deal with the part where I speak of inverse proportionality.

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                        • #13
                          tek yuh 平仮名 平仮名 an guhwhey!!
                          TIVOLI: THE DESTRUCTION OF JAMAICA'S EVIL EMPIRE

                          Recognizing the victims of Jamaica's horrendous criminality and exposing the Dummies like Dippy supporting criminals by their deeds.. or their silence.

                          D1 - Xposing Dummies since 2007

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                          • #14
                            Let us assume for the moment that might be true. Again, should we not then discuss this possibility? Or should we stick our head in the sand and hope it never happens?

                            Is that how you plan for possible outcomes?
                            "‎It is easier to build strong children than to repair broken men" - Frederick Douglass

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                            • #15
                              When his cattle are threatened by the Lion the Wise Shepherd becomes "Situationally Aware"...while the Foolish Shepherd does nothing...victimized by his Normalcy Bias"

                              The Foolish Shepherds Jawge & Maudib (that odd couple...lol)are on display....on long term simma...
                              TIVOLI: THE DESTRUCTION OF JAMAICA'S EVIL EMPIRE

                              Recognizing the victims of Jamaica's horrendous criminality and exposing the Dummies like Dippy supporting criminals by their deeds.. or their silence.

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