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Originally Posted by wasyoungonce
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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It's more like the Su PAK-FA T-50
Theres some interesting articles how the Chinese stole Russians intellectual property on the Su-27 many years ago. Russians learnt their lesson from sharing that time.
Now they are in a deal supposedly with Russia to buy Su-35 jets; which they'll then most likely use or reverse engineer the engines for their J program.
