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Originally posted by perpetrator76
As far as I am concerned this fighter most likely is not up to par with the US.
Originally posted by SpearMint
Originally posted by perpetrator76
As far as I am concerned this fighter most likely is not up to par with the US.
Why would you make assumptions when you have no information? It could very well be better, in fact I suspect it is.edit on 21-9-2012 by SpearMint because: (no reason given)
Originally posted by Neocrusader
The US military is still struggling to get the raptor fully operational and has run massively over budget, and as far as I'm aware are going to or have stopped production
The f-35 again has hit its own hurdles, with the VSTOL version being all but cancelled after they've admitted they can't get it to work properly
But then the Chinese j20 ( think that's it's designation( their first gen 5 ) will be in operational service from as early as next year
The Chinese have a few distinct advantages
They make the components for US weapons, thus gain the tech
It is incredibly arrogant to think that what the US has china doesn't also have or are far from having
Not only that but due to their different approach to warfare, different 'battle plan', and different avenue of development that they may have weapon systems that the US doesn't have !
U,S,A.....U,S,A.......U,S,A
Wakey wakey !
The early flying wing designs were incredibly unstable in flight - especially at low speeds, so much so that they were dangerous and unfeasible. That was untill the digital revolution where the SOFTWARE was developed to enable the use of the flying wing (B2)
Originally posted by Neocrusader
reply to post by butcherguy
The early flying wing designs were incredibly unstable in flight - especially at low speeds, so much so that they were dangerous and unfeasible.
That was untill the digital revolution where the SOFTWARE was developed to enable the use of the flying wing (B2)
This is where other nations struggled - that flight stabilisation software - and then whoops - a flying wing drone gets spoofed in Iran .........now they have that software .........that was the biggest loss associated with that incident
Originally posted by perpetrator76
As far as I am concerned this fighter most likely is not up to par with the US. China has just now started to branch out into this tech field, we have been using stealth for the better part of 30 years and have a lot of the kinks worked out that they most likely dont. However america these days is ran of the military industrial complex and we have aircraft that can go hypersonic in excess of Mach 10... The US is light years ahead of the majority of countries in the world. The f-35 was failure because it was hard to control fully loaded, and then lacked the range, or you could lose the ordiance and get the range you wanted but not both... thats why the platform failed and boeing is selling to other countries because the military isnt interested. We're going to drones and unmanned aircraft. Stealth tech while important is a old facet that we have already incorporated into our designs and we are currently developing more as we speak.... TR3B anyone?