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Old 25-02-2013, 09:57 AM
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Originally Posted by Hans Tucker View Post
Why not just hack into the database and steal the plans and the manufacture your own

http://www.theaustralian.com.au/news...-1226296400154
Well despite the similaraties...this Chinese version is very different to the JSF. One being it's twin engine and has fwd cannards. The Chinese version....no LE slats. Ailerons and flaps have cowl's covering the hydraulic jacks (points of radar signature return) also lower vertical stabilisers and the engine coal flaps do not look like thrust vectoring.

Other little things like the engine coal flaps project rearwards from the fuselage & airframe envelope (thus larger radar and heat return signatures) ...in other words it not a very good copy.

There is lots wrong with this Chinese version ...things that the US designers would have worked and overcome very well. This you can be assured.
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