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Video Of Chinese J-20 Stealth Fighter Leaked
For all who have been awaiting the release of a video of China's Chengdu J-20 stealth fighter jet, which made its first flight on January 11 of this year, Youku has you covered. In a recently released clip, we can see the J-20 performing high speed taxiing tests at Huang Tian Ba airport, Chengdu. A quick summary of the characteristics of the J-20 can be found here. Of note is the rather loud exhaust noise coming from the "stealth" fighter. One would expect this to be modestly muffled in the final version. Regardless, at least China can now boast via "leaked" videos that it has both a stealth fighter and an aircraft carrier, ignore that both are probably nothing more than the epitome of reverse engineering.
And a video of the actual first test flight from early January can be seen below:
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The Varyag isnt so rusted out anymore.
They don't have to invade us, just get us embroiled in an arms race.
This time, we get to play the part of the Soviets, whose economic system would collapse from the strain.
I have a feeling if they start a war it will be over the loss of their purchasing power in reserve, reminds me off the kid chasing after John Cusack in Better of Dead.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ici3LCG9kGc
Classic desception tactic to release this now. After all - the US military industrial/security complex must be fed and cared for. Watch the budget debate in Congress. Ever wonder why the military budget is never cut?
Give that man a cigar....
Chinese have no illusion that they're learning, copying for the purpose of catching up and innovating. And it's been steadily bearing fruit. In the meanwhile, Americans continue being pleased with themselves in the wit of cracking lead-paint and wallmart jokes.
Enjoy the Fed printed dollar while you can, bitchez.
If it is like my Chinese four wheeler I bet there are pieces of the plane all over the runway, superior chinese workmanship. The engine fell off my daughters 4 wheeler, how does an engine just fall off?? LOL
why bother with titanium when cadmium plated plastic will do the job?
Where is Clint Eastwood?
"get off my lawn, zipperhead"
In China trying to get in on the appreciating Yuan thingy.
So is John Wayne, Elvis, and Jonas Bros.
I'm not impressed! Sounded more like a Kia commercial.
Was in the eastern part of the Shanghai in January at a new windmill powered substation and nearby (inland mind you) was about a 1/2 scale mock up of what looked like a US carrier. Took a couple of "stealth" pics while passing by in the taxi. As soon as someone can tell me how to add a jpg, I'll post it.
This clip best encapsulates boyhood enthusiasm for flying chariots.
Spielberg could really reach moments of inspiration when he put his mind to it - there was somehow no false sentimentalism that characterises some of his other works.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=02BBtN-P0lc
Great post, Dork.
Speilberg = Epic
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=40t6ys8pgNo
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WD7B0cfTXlc
I guess cocaine and flying do not mix........
It beeps when it backs up? Just like the garbage truck in my neighborhood. Not very stealthy.
From what I understand, the Israelis have been working with them with a nod from Uncle Sam.
if it has orbital abilites they will hand us our ass
No worries. Suborbital bomber is a separate project, not likely to start maiden flight this year.
I thought janes says we already have it.
Doubtful as I don't see this jet being large enough to carry the oxidizers necessary for upper atmosphere powered flight. Smoke and mirrors on a strategic scale.
Like NASA?
Orbital abilities? Please, this thing can do 70k feet max, probably much less.
7k tops lol
70k? Very few planes ever made have service ceilings up that high
If we can keep a Dem administration from giving our anti-missle tech to the Russians, and selling the plans of our railguns to the Chinese, we should do okay.
Big if though.
WOIII starts round 2020 so plenty of time to get the plane in ol fash Chinese style mass production.
Flightcariers are wortless so funurable on every side, above and under water attack against a real enemy.
Aerodynamic ratios and payload capacity show that this is nothing more than a glorified stealth aircraft carrier killer. Not even in the same category as the F-22 or F-35. Its more like the old YF-23 prototype.
Large payload capabilities mean it could carry quite a few anti-ship missiles, evade any F/A-18 Super Hornets that fly CAP and be home before the ramen gets cold.
War is only profitable if you are the armorer of OTHER nations at war, or you actually keep what you conquer.
The US is too far gone to understand that anymore.
Nice ride, bad cameras. Damn cell phone technology.
People around here tend to think that their own country is stupid and on the brink. Please wake up and realize that the US is so muc more powerful than anyone realizes. There is a plan at work and we are actually much smarter than anyone gives us credit for and better positioned than you think.
There has been more than 20 years of high level development and trillions spent on projects that we have no hint of. I believe in the mile down bunkers, I have seen "ufos" (they are not aliens), energy weapons are a reality, weather and earthquake weapons (three major eq occured while the x-37b was in space) and finally drones and robots.
When WW3 breakouts we will stop fighting with one arm tied behind our back... the gloves will come off and will give China and their clown friends a good spank.
Good idea: spending trillions upon trillions to have a great unbeatable army and a bankrupt country.
Well, the world is much more dangerous than you might imagine.
I have a basic question for you: do you really believe in the death of the USSR?
There is an operation... real operation called Golgatha. The USSR fakes it death only to be ressurected when the West let it's guard down.
Ever heard of Day X... this is no joke my friend. There are thousands of sleeper agents living in the US waiting to do their thing upon the proper signal.
No, we are not bankrupt. How can a powerful government be bankrupt? Only a normal or weak government can go bankrupt.
When we hear China complaining about our monetary practices it is just our enemy sending propaganda.
Now to be clear... the US does have very bad corruption problems, but it must manage everything with a bigger, strategic objective in mind. Trying to balance the budget while you are gearing up for the mother of all wars is not very wise.
Why worry about debt when there is a good chance you or your creditor will go up in ashes in 10 years or so!
Abe Lincoln had it right. We can worry our asses off about outside powers, but can only be defeated by ourselves.
We're doing ourselves in by printing dollars to oblivion, destroying the middle class, feeding the bankers and the top 1%, disassembling our manufacturing capabilities, sending jobs overseas, overstretching our military . . .
Just focus on the printing aspect. When our dollars won't buy us what we need from the outside, and inflation impoverishes our people, our advanced hardware will be worth little.
Isn't that the plot to "Salt"??
Stealth is 1970's technology.
I have seen pictures of the.triangular shaped craft over belgium that put the french president in an uproar.
It has to be ours, but it is not a.conventional propulsion system.
It's one thing to have the biggest stick, and it's quite another to have the hangers to use it. If our performance in tackling Somali pirates is any indication we could be in serious shizott down the road.
Stealth? I cut a whole in a Buster Brown shoebox, then put a mirror on the opposite side. I'm pretty sure I saw it.
OT
Just wondering, but does BBC mean Big Bunch of Cocksuckers?
Quite possibly, as they hail from the same country whose military released captured pirates after giving them halal, a cigarette and probably a kiss on the cheek as they sent them off back out to sea.
http://www.thetrumpet.com/?q=8180.6825.0.0
Oh, The Aurora Mach 5 plane is quite real. Saw it in Nevada after a refuel (Navy VR) back in 2000. Big Fu**er. Air Force always gets all the really cool iron.
The Navy's railgun rounds are pushing mach 7.
Just sayin...
And the mondo big fatty lasers are, by definition, light speed.
Now if they can get it to hit a missile over the horizon they will be set.
No one will ever hit a "missle" over the horizon.
Light speed weapons "at" the horizon are good enough.
While I'm no rocket scientist (or physicist), if HAARP can turn the atmosphere into a mirror to bounce radio waves off of, is a laser that much different?
Dunno, but it doesn't matter. We'll control the orbitals before anyone else, and then we can control the whole world with simple kinetic energy weapons.
If you are at the bottom of the gravity well, all you can do is sue for peace.
Yep. The first thing you should do. Is take out that Hubble telescope. Just aim right into it's parabolic mirror and duck.
And if you see shiny chrome plated tanks. Shoot them really hard with your beam weapon.
Don't worry archimedes won't come back and take you to fucking school like a child or nothing.
And pirates wearing space blankets won't laugh at the navy's green lazers. I swears it.
Actually it's even less than the horizon.
Think of the energy loss. Thats why the sun is red when it's setting. And white hot when overhead.
Beam weapons are last ditch, waiting for the bang, wince weapons.
For now, but they are getting more awesome rather quickly.
Actually it's even less than the horizon.
Think of the energy loss. Thats why the sun is red when it's setting. And white hot when overhead.
Beam weapons are last ditch, waiting for the bang, wince weapons.
Actually it's even less than the horizon.
Think of the energy loss. Thats why the sun is red when it's setting. And white hot when overhead.
Beam weapons are last ditch, waiting for the bang, wince weapons.
Some fuckin secret. There's a giant apartment block right behind the damned thing. Can't say I'd want to live there either!
YOU WILL LIVE THERE AND YOU WILL LIKE IT COMRADE!
China knows they are going to have to come after those IOU's that the United Snakes of America owes them.
POTUS be learning; the empire of these States United is not in the binnis of winning global rhubarbs, for they are to costly. The art is to destabilize properly as to secure supremacy and get to the next pit and secure the scratch-line. The musselmen clans have thrown us an 0-2 slider on black however at the 2nd ab the friction between the shia/sunni has the empire loading up on a 2-0 cockshot. Next step move must be poland to buffer any alliance beyond germany buying natural resources from the russians; hence we can ill afford to allow german technology to marry cheap labor combined with vast natural resources from russia.
Plata,
I see we are off again/on again with missle defense for Poland.
http://rt.com/politics/us-poland-air-defense/
It be touchy; if history ever pulls a trifecta in world wars you can bet them Germanic peoples be kindling for such events. President Obama has no mulligans on this one. I wouldn't take that job for all the war nickels left on this sphere. Speaking of that; $2.5720254941 is the total melt value for the 1942-1945 silver nickel on April 20, 2011.
My guess is that POTUS knows everything you stated has all been engineered to scare the sheeple. Hell, W even knew it, and acknowledged it when he stated "We write history."
Why would anyone need to invest in all this technology, when it's been well proven that you can beat an imperial army with IEDs and pits full of sharp sticks?
Because nobody invests their own money, and the defense contractors get paid regardless, which they kick-back to the politicos who like to pretend to have a tough foreign policy stance.
But since your question was rhetorical, you probably know this already.
was it loaded down with lead? I hardly got airborn.
But I'm sure we'll be seeing a lot of these flying around the world.
It is truly upsetting to see such racism on Zero Hedge. While the Varyag is obviously not a domestic design, it was an unfinished Soviet carrier purchased from Ukraine, the J-20 is without doubt an indiginous project. Of course, some people are too blinded by yellow terror to even consider that the Chinese might be capable of developing their own technology and just assume everything is stolen.
It appears to be.consensus among.defense experts that it is mostly derived from the stealth fighter knocked down in yugoslavia.
Note to self. Dont get lazy and.fly with the missile in the launch position. It makes you.visible.
Well this should be enough justification for the wingnuts to ramp up DOD spending a few more trillion.
What's next?? A decade long war against an idea?? ....Oh....nevermind....
All this hardware is just such a fucking waste of resources.
When will we ever learn?
1000 of these planes running 100 sorties dropping ordnance on American factories wouldn't touch the damage their mercantilist commerce has done to us. All with the complicity of our elite.
Big heavy airframe + unsculpted wings and smaller control surfaces (compared to F-22 that is) means less lift so it requires larger engine noise = more RPM, and more thrust, and more heat, and more radar signature, to stay aloft at lower speeds.
These issues also imply operating cruise height reduction, and some range reduction.
The splayed engine nozzles imply a slower roll rate than F-22 as the engines are further out from the rotation center and require more force to be turned.
The more rearward wing, in plan view, also implies a lower pitching rate.
Slower roll and slower pitching also implies a substantially less agile aircraft, than an F-22.
This is without even going into sustained engine power, where the F-22 will have a much larger static thrust with a much lower weight, and much greater fuel burn efficiency ... not to mention higher stealth and less heat generation. Which provides the ability to accelerate in a new direction, earlier, which is absolutely crucial for defeating missiles and breaking track and lock and escaping blast damage ... which is what the advanced auto-pilot + advanced nimble sensors and all that CPU-grunt, and coding is for.
(if you didn't know the fifth generation were designed to survive AA missile attack .. even surprise ones ... the F-35 will take this to an even higher level, specifically because of the need to detect and defeat advanced battlefield SAM attack, from any direction, at any time ... and I seriously doubt this J-20 or any other Chinese fighter will have that capability any time soon ... and beyond intrinsic low observability, that is where the the 'winning-edge' is these days ... anything less and you're missile bait).
The 'glass cockpit' shots are of course staged and just propaganda props and probably total BS, and fairly certain to be nowhere remotely functional combat avionics systems.
This J-20 is an early prototype (like where F-22 was in about 1992) and a long way from a production variant ... if it ever becomes one ... that is.
Lots of aircraft don't make it that far, and there's a good chance a complete redesign of a new iteration is required, built and tested and refined, before the Chinese decide to produce them in volume.
Any production they initiate will be low rate production for years, so a LONG time before they become a significant force.
Bottom line;
Beijing wants to put Taiwan beyond regional dispute, hence a nascent carrier arm, and this J-20 prototype, to prepare for the eventual arrival of Japanese and Korean F-35s (in large numbers, to replace aging F-16 and F-15s) after about 2020.
It should be seen as such because it will take a long time for them to generate fully-operational heavy fighter squadrons in militarily significant numbers - think >>2025 to 2030 timeframe.
At which time a new replacement generation of western fighters will be taking shape on factory floors ... but this won't stop everyone panicing endlessly about the ne 'yellow peril' ... like ... all over again.
I think by now the Chinese realise that starting or participating in air warfare with the west would be an EXTREMELY bad idea ... but feel free to panick, anyway, if you imagine different.
What we see here is NOT the real thing.
This is pure psy-op.
The purpose is to implant a perception of a CHINESE STEALTH fighter jet.
>One would expect this to be modestly muffled in the final version<
Maybe, maybe not. The Chinese, like everybody else outside the of the US and very possibly UK, simply do not have the capability to make the ceramic materials required for the engine exhausts to be muffled properly.
It's the same with high end metallurgy...