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Pbbbt... So much for stealth... I can SEE IT RIGHT THERE!maxpower097 said:Yup China's in the Stealth Fighter game now. Amazing how they all look alike.
.. Now thats funny!jpanhalt said:Don't worry. The lead paint will give it away.
John
The SR-71 was my first plane model and my first model rocket.blueroomelectronics said:The XB-70 and SR-71 were / are still both awesome aircraft.
The first true supersonic "stealth" aircraft was the A-12, the precursor to the SR-71.The XB-70 and SR-71 were / are still both awesome aircraft.
I could see something like that happening. Such as changing their IFF to squawk their GPS Coordinates, fuel level, etc to the enemy, missile targeting only works on other Chinese planes, etc.Do you think they used bootlegged parts for the avionics and other hardware?
Imagine the irony if it was brought down by fake parts.
As an American, thank you.they all look alike because its the optimum design
Those where funny.Remember the old "Spy vs. Spy" comics?
In the beginning of the jet age. The Russian and American jet fighter looked almost the same. As they both were based much on captured german ww2 technologythey all look alike because its the optimum design
It is also in a historical context interesting. That the first Russian jet fighter planes used more or less a reverse engineered British jet engine design. As a reward for Russian effort in ww2. Russia was given a a small number of British jet engines. Shortly after the ww2 ended. And before the cold war started to get real cold.The MiG 15 and MiG 21 were almost identical in appearance to German designs. The F-86 (Saberjet) had a lot of German technology, but the F-80 and F-4 (Phantom) were distinctly American designs. Of course, good technology should not be discarded and continues to be incorporated today in designs.
What is so striking to me, though, is the superficial similarity of the two MiG's just mentioned to earlier German designs. Remember, the MiG 21 was a first-line fighter in the Vietnam war.
John