China May Be Flight Testing A V/STOL Fighter

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"We heard a little chatter about this earlier in the month;
apparently China is test flying its own vertical/short take-off
and landing fighter jet dubbed the J-18. According to my
old colleague Wendell Minnick at Defense News, the jet is
similar in appearance to Russia’s Su-33 carrier based
evolution of Sukhoi’s famous Su-27 line."

See:

http://defensetech.org/2011/04/22/china-may-be-flight-testing-a-vstol-fighter/

and

http://www.defensenews.com/story.php?i=6301965&c=ASI&s=AIR

[Daryl]

On 4/23/2011 12:16 AM, wrote:
> "We heard a little chatter about this earlier in the month;
> apparently China is test flying its own vertical/short take-off
> and landing fighter jet dubbed the J-18. According to my
> old colleague Wendell Minnick at Defense News, the jet is
> similar in appearance to Russia’s Su-33 carrier based
> evolution of Sukhoi’s famous Su-27 line."
>
> See:
>
> http://defensetech.org/2011/04/22/china-may-be-flight-testing-a-vstol-fighter/
>
> and
>
> http://www.defensenews.com/story.php?i=6301965&c=ASI&s=AIR

Looking at it with it's slab sides, it would be a shooting
gallery anywhere they used it. It would light up the skies for
radar and it's heat signature would be a beacon for every IR
missile both ground and air.

They made a really poor copy of the F-35.

[Dean Markley]

On Apr 23, 12:27*pm, Daryl > wrote:
> On 4/23/2011 12:16 AM, wrote:
>
> > "We heard a little chatter about this earlier in the month;
> > apparently China is test flying its own vertical/short take-off
> > and landing fighter jet dubbed the J-18. According to my
> > old colleague Wendell Minnick at Defense News, the jet is
> > similar in appearance to Russia s Su-33 carrier based
> > evolution of Sukhoi s famous Su-27 line."
>
> > See:
>
> >http://defensetech.org/2011/04/22/china-may-be-flight-testing-a-vstol...
>
> > and
>
> >http://www.defensenews.com/story.php?i=6301965&c=ASI&s=AIR
>
> Looking at it with it's slab sides, it would be a shooting
> gallery anywhere they used it. *It would light up the skies for
> radar and it's heat signature would be a beacon for every IR
> missile both ground and air.
>
> They made a really poor copy of the F-35.

The picture shown in the first article was a Yak-141.

[Dennis[_6_]]

dumpster wrote:

> "We heard a little chatter about this earlier in the month;
> apparently China is test flying its own vertical/short take-off
> and landing fighter jet dubbed the J-18. According to my
> old colleague Wendell Minnick at Defense News, the jet is
> similar in appearance to Russia’s Su-33 carrier based
> evolution of Sukhoi’s famous Su-27 line."
>
> See:
>
> http://defensetech.org/2011/04/22/china-may-be-flight-testing-a-vstol-f
> ighter/
>
> and
>
> http://www.defensenews.com/story.php?i=6301965&c=ASI&s=AIR

I presume this is for their new/old aircraft carrier.

Dennis