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Originally posted by taibunsuu
As much as Chinese aircraft are copies, I can guarantee that if anyone here had the finances to get rated on one of these fighters, buy one, and maintain it, they would do so.
That is, unless you're like the Russian immigrant who invented the magnetic data strip. He owns and flies an F-16.
Originally posted by Stealth Spy
Why cant aircraft projects be patented ????????????
Originally posted by roniii259
It is funny that people say that the US started out copying designs for our aircraft, but we didnt. Sure after WW2 we tested German fighters and missiles, bu instead of outright copying it we modified our fighters with the tech( air plane engines, swept wings) but the airframe was new.
Originally posted by roniii259
Originally posted by drunk
If all aircrafts made by China are pathetic copies then it means that the originals are pathetic.
yes, because all the planes the Chinese copy are the Russian planes or bad copies of bad copies of US fighters. Now thats silly isnt it?
Originally posted by Prismatic
Even so i wouldn't want to be a pilot flying into battle against a squadron of these. It's advanced enough to handle just about anything in their region, so it does the job it's meant to do.
Originally posted by Daedalus3
Originally posted by Prismatic
Even so i wouldn't want to be a pilot flying into battle against a squadron of these. It's advanced enough to handle just about anything in their region, so it does the job it's meant to do.
Hey those things ain't proven yet! Thats been built out of one of the block A F-16s 'lent' buy the pakis and they've mixed up a lot of Su features (canards for example). Don't know where they got the delta wing design..Hey! maybe its original!! Not!
And another thing, they are defeinitely not "advanced enough to handle just about anything in their region" !
The main fuselage is definitely F-16 derived, and that too from the ones the pakis have.
Btw still the US supports Pakistan. Even after they sold nuke tech to NK !! Why??
Its either utter stupidity or highly twisted ulterior motives
[edit on 19-10-2004 by Daedalus3]
Originally posted by roniii259
It is funny that people say that the US started out copying designs for our aircraft, but we didnt.
Originally posted by sminkeypinkey
Originally posted by roniii259
It is funny that people say that the US started out copying designs for our aircraft, but we didnt.
- You did. Just like everyone else did too.
The Messerschmitt and Focke Wulf high speed wing designs became the basis for the Sabre and Mig 15 wings.
Same with their afterburning high thrust jet axial-flow engines. Everybody had a long hard look and took it from there.
[edit on 20-10-2004 by sminkeypinkey]
Originally posted by waynos
I agree with the comments about the USA's so called ally and I don't know what they see in the country, but thats another debate.
Originally posted by IAF101
Also the Indian Air Force supposedly has some thing called the LCA. Looks some thing like the the J-8.
Waynos. The pic you posted was actually the third Lavi built, and the only one built after the project was cancelled. It was built as a technology demonstrator. (see the TD on the tail?) Just to clear that up.
Originally posted by waynos
When I said 'cancelled before it flew', I should of course said 'before it entered service'. My mistake.