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A tell-tale glimpse of China's stealth technology

Such dense smog in that place one could not see this machine...I gave up at 2.29. But it adds to the mystique which also bears an inevitable foreboding. Has China gone to this trouble in order to make sales? To be able to attack or just to defend? What is the vision?

The scariest part of this is that China spends this kind of money on military while the toxic emissions associated with the smog adversely affects the health of their population. Is China in the United Nations and why would they have any say in global environment issues while they do this? It is like inviting the drug dealer to rehab.

I am not being funny, it is disgusting to see that level of pollution and it is impacting the entire world. For all of this we send our products to be produced in China so corporations can make more money?

The US consumes more than twice as much oil per day as China, the second largest oil consumer. 40% of US oil consumption is to fuel automobiles, 70% if you factor in trucks. Do you even consider the toxic emissions the US produce? And US companies manufacture products in China, because the American consumer looks for the cheapest goods. We all decry the outsourcing of jobs to foreign countries with cheaper labor, and yet we spend tens of billions of dollars a year at Wal-Mart and other discount chains. We are our own worst enemies.

You see, the CEO's and business owners (including landlords) have raped the public for so long that the natural reaction is to shop 'elsewhere'.

Pass laws that make it fair for the consumers (and yes the tenants) and stop the GREED and things will quickly turn around.

Everyone deserves a decent lifestyle. But they can't get it due to all the greed that runs rampant.

I can see the F-22 influences, but it also bares a striking resemblance to the MIG-30 Firefox from the Clint Eastwood movie.

As for the other poster who asked "what is the vision?", its the same as Russia and the US in building similar aircraft, trying to equal or better the other guy. Whether its purpose is to attack or defend could be asked of the F-22 or the T-50.

to criticize a country for developing high tech military weapons only ignores one main fact..(and no i don't criticize my own country for leading the way)...they have to face the reality of the US capabilities. in their minds we are a threat that perhaps they will have to deal with. i don't want the US to stop developing our capabilities. However, we must accept the act that other nations will try to match us for their own comfort level.

?China is investing in very high-end, high-tech capabilities and the question that is always out there is to try to understand exactly why,?

Um, maybe because US military doctrine requires total domination of air and space?

I'm sorry but I am not impressed. Raggedy aircrafts IMO...

?China is investing in very high-end, high-tech capabilities and the question that is always out there is to try to understand exactly why,?
Dear Admiral Mullen,

Either you're trying to be "mister nice guy" by not telling the truth about Chinese hegemony, or you're too stupid for words. Why does the US have the *same* technology? To project force throughout the world in protecting its pipelines of resources.

The Chinese are getting ready for oil wars, water wars, coal wars, food wars, and all the other population-driven resource grabs within our near 7 billion population future. Paul Erlich was right, just too early.

Whether or not this Chinese fighter will be a competitor to our F-22 is an open question. So far the Chinese have not demonstrated the cutting edge engine technology needed for supercruise. In our own stealth development, it was found that relatively minor flaws in design, operation, or materials could make a plane light up a radar screen. Getting all this right is a lot harder than it looks. There are also intangibles such as how maintenance intensive the Chinese plane is, and what kind of electronic warfare systems it has to support multiple engagements at the same time.

On top of that, the US has the budget to build and maintain only about 187 F-22s. It's hard to imagine the Chinese building a greater number of their stealth superfighters.

If a real full-blown war were to break out between the US and China that didn't go nuclear, it's hard to imagine either the F-22 or the new Chinese stealth fighter having much effect. They'd be like the German Tiger II tank of WWII (less than 500 hundred built), which nobody fought head-on but were overwhelmed by opposing numbers.

I believe the Chinese reverse engineered stealth tech from the downed American stealth fighter by the Serbs in the Bosnian war.

Our collect future whether we like it or not is one where population growth and levels eventually will have to decline drastically - either by "natural" catastrophe, or design. In either case the global economy as it was designed and as we have come to know it - will collapse, because it is absolutely dependent on growth. Any nation that has come to this realization, recognizes that if it doesn't want to be caught in the global collapse caused by population and market decline - it has to create and control a scenario in which it creates rapid population declines and then grows into that opportunity of space and resources. Current technology suggest that the most efficient way of accomplishing this is through biological warfare. Since this would be rather obvious and cause retaliation prior to the demise of enemy/target nations - the aggressor nation is likely to also show serious (but calculated and controlled) population loss by the disease bio-weapon used - thereby confusing the target nations as to whom is the aggressor. It's only logical and already over populated China would benefit most from implementing this scenario.

The US stopped using Stealth years ago and has moved on to much more sophisticated battle equipment. they keep playing at stealth to sell it to the other "gullible" countries

It will be directed-energy (Laser) weapons capable of neutralizing aircraft and spacecraft instantly, without warning, from great distances....every combat pilot's nightmare.