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China's new stealth fighter may use US technology

AP

SLOBODAN LEKIC and DUSAN STOJANOVIC, Associated Press Slobodan Lekic And Dusan Stojanovic, Associated Press – 1 hr 11 mins ago

BRUSSELS – Chinese officials recently unveiled a new, high-tech stealth fighter that could pose a significant threat to American air superiority — and some of its technology, it turns out, may well have come from the U.S. itself.

Balkan military officials and other experts have told The Associated Press that in all probability the Chinese gleaned some of their technological know-how from an American F-117 Nighthawk that was shot down over Serbia in 1999.

Nighthawks were the world's first stealth fighters, planes that were very hard for radar to detect. But on March 27, 1999, during NATO's aerial bombing of Serbia in the Kosovo war, a Serbian anti-aircraft missile shot one of the Nighthawks down. The pilot ejected and was rescued.

It was the first time one of the much-touted "invisible" fighters had ever been hit. The Pentagon believed a combination of clever tactics and sheer luck had allowed a Soviet-built SA-3 missile to bring down the jet.

The wreckage was strewn over a wide area of flat farmlands, and civilians collected the parts — some the size of small cars — as souvenirs.

"At the time, our intelligence reports told of Chinese agents crisscrossing the region where the F-117 disintegrated, buying up parts of the plane from local farmers," says Adm. Davor Domazet-Loso, Croatia's military chief of staff during the Kosovo war.

"We believe the Chinese used those materials to gain an insight into secret stealth technologies ... and to reverse-engineer them," Domazet-Loso said in a telephone interview.

A senior Serbian military official confirmed that pieces of the wreckage were removed by souvenir collectors, and that some ended up "in the hands of foreign military attaches."

Efforts to get comment from China's defense ministry and the Pentagon were unsuccessful.

China's multi-role stealth fighter — known as the Chengdu J-20 — made its inaugural flight Jan. 11, revealing dramatic progress in the country's efforts to develop cutting-edge military technologies.

Although the twin-engine J-20 is at least eight or nine years from entering air force inventory, it could become a rival to America's top-of-the-line F-22 Raptor, the successor to the Nighthawk and the only stealth fighter currently in service.

China rolled out the J-20 just days before a visit to Beijing by U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates, leading some analysts to speculate that the timing was intended to demonstrate the growing might of China's armed forces.

Despite Chinese President Hu Jintao's high-profile visit to the United States this week, many in Washington see China as an economic threat to the U.S. and worry as well about Beijing's military might.

Parts of the downed F-117 wreckage — such as the left wing with US Air Force insignia, the cockpit canopy, ejection seat, pilot's helmet and radio — are exhibited at Belgrade's aviation museum.

"I don't know what happened to the rest of the plane," said Zoran Milicevic, deputy director of the museum. "A lot of delegations visited us in the past, including the Chinese, Russians and Americans ... but no one showed any interest in taking any part of the jet."

Zoran Kusovac, a Rome-based military consultant, said the regime of former Serbian President Slobodan Milosevic routinely shared captured Western equipment with its Chinese and Russian allies.

"The destroyed F-117 topped that wish-list for both the Russians and Chinese," Kusovac said.

Russia's Sukhoi T-50 prototype stealth fighter made its maiden flight last year and is due to enter service in about four years. It is likely that the Russians also gleaned knowledge of stealth technology from the downed Nighthawk.

The F-117, developed in great secrecy in the 1970s, began service in 1983.

While not completely invisible to radar, its shape and radar-absorbent coating made detection extremely difficult. The radar cross-section was further reduced because the wings' leading and trailing edges were composed of nonmetallic honeycomb structures that do not reflect radar rays.

Kusovac said insight into this critical technology, and particularly the plane's secret radiation-absorbent exterior coating, would have significantly enhanced China's stealth know-how.

Alexander Huang of Taipei's Tamkang University said the J-20 represented a major step forward for China. He described Domazet-Loso's claim as "a logical assessment."

"There is no other stronger source for the origin of the J-20's stealthy technology," said Huang, an expert on China's air force. "The argument the Croatian chief-of-staff makes is legitimate and cannot be ruled out."

The Chinese are well-known perpetrators of industrial espionage in Western Europe and the United States, where the administration has also been increasingly aggressive in prosecuting cases of Chinese espionage.

Western diplomats have said China maintained an intelligence post in its Belgrade embassy during the Kosovo war. The building was mistakenly struck by U.S. bombers that May, killing three people inside.

"What that means is that the Serbs and Chinese would have been sharing their intelligence," said Alexander Neill, head of the Asia security program at the Royal United Services Institute, a defense think tank in London. "It's very likely that they shared the technology they recovered from the F-117, and it's very plausible that elements of the F-117 got to China."

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Stojanovic reported from Belgrade. Associated Press reporters Snjezana Vukic in Zagreb, and Peter Enav in Taipei contributed to this report.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20110123/ap_on_re_eu/eu_us_stealth_technology_china
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indie

Kineska državna banka kupuje američku...


... Industrijska i komercijalna banka Kine, prema nekim merilima najveća svetska banka, pristala je da plati oko 100 miliona dolara za 80 odsto vlasništva u američkom ogranku Banke istočne Azije, čije je sedište u Hong Kongu, ali koja ima 13 poslovnica u američkim saveznim državama Kalifornija i Njujork...

... Ugovor je potpisan u Čikagu ove sedmice, na kraju četvorodnevne posete kineskog predsednika Hu Đintaoa Sjedinjenim Državama. Američka regulativna tela i dalje treba da odobre ugovor, sto bi moglo da potraje do kraja godine... Kineska vlada ima 70 odsto vlasničkog udela u pomenutoj kineskoj banci i ukoliko ugovor bude potvrđen, bilo bi to prvi put da jednu američku finansijsku instituciju kontroliše banka u vlasništvu kineske vlade, naveo je "Glas Amerike"...
'на љуту рану - љуту траву..!'

slawen

Мени овде ништа није јасно.
Освајају технологију од пре четрдесет година?
Колико ће им требати да освоје пост-радарски систем откривања и праћења циљева? Тридесет?
Полакоте, вечнос' је пред нама.
Иначе је то "ново партнерство из нужде" актуелно задњих дана по свецкој штампи, па ето и Глас Америке нешто да приопћи.
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Paramecijum

Kina Ameriku posmatra kao trenutni čir na dupetu prema kome moraju da se ponašaju pažljivo da ne naruše svoj dugoročni plan.

slawen

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Paramecijum

Pa vidi, Kinezi su u jedan svoj grad uveli kapitalizam da vide kako će se to pokazati na nivou 200 godina, pa ako valja, da ga uvedu u celoj zemlji. Taj grad je Šangaj, izlovan prostor sa tridesetak miliona ljudi koji žive i rade potpuno po drugačijim pravilima nego ostatak Kine. Sad je tom eksperimentu pridružen i Hong Kong sa svojih gotovo 10 miliona ljudi. 40 miliona ljudi u kapitalizmu ima koliko država na svetu?

slawen

План је да Кина напусти комунизам?
Бин дер.
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Hate mail

To je previse ljudi za tako malo iznutrica, repova, kandzi...
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AFord

Quote from: Paramecijum on January 23, 2011, 12:07:21 PM
Pa vidi, Kinezi su u jedan svoj grad uveli kapitalizam da vide kako će se to pokazati na nivou 200 godina, pa ako valja, da ga uvedu u celoj zemlji. Taj grad je Šangaj, izlovan prostor sa tridesetak miliona ljudi koji žive i rade potpuno po drugačijim pravilima nego ostatak Kine. Sad je tom eksperimentu pridružen i Hong Kong sa svojih gotovo 10 miliona ljudi. 40 miliona ljudi u kapitalizmu ima koliko država na svetu?

da li si bio u kini ili Hong Kongu? Ovo mi lici na onu pricu o kalifornijskim jezerima za surfovanje.
Hong Kong je drzava za sebe. Idi popricaj sa ljudima odande pa ces cuti/videti. uostalom Hong Kong ima svog guvernera (predsednika) koji nema veze sa Kinom, svoju policiju a kinezima je potrebna viza za ulazak. Jeste da je HK deo Kine ali Kina jako pazi da ne zasere nesto pa sva ona lova nestane.
Kina je prvenstveno jedna mnogoljudna i jos uvek siromasna drzava. Kako se budu razvijali sve ce im vise potrebe rasti, ono sapun, topla voda, kola itd. tako da ja tu ne bi ocekivao neki 'prevrat'. Onoliko koliko je Americi vazna Kina toliko je Kini vazna Amerika - ako ne i vise.

slawen

У то име цитирао бих само једну велику мисао: Ех та Кина (материна). Америчка змија у њедрима....
И можда мој скромни допринос тој дискусији у виду епохалне реченице: "Јесте ли бре знали да они не могу да пију млеко?"
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slawen

Како објаснити ствари Србима, да они то разумеју:

Kinezi formulu za stelt otkrili sa farbe srušenog aviona F-117
(наслов из тзв. Блица)
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Paramecijum

Hong Kong jeste jer je bio 100 godina izvan Kine.
A Šangaj? Šangaj je Kineski eksperiment, a Hong Kong je samo šlag na tome.

AFord

ne sporim za Shangaj - definitivno pokusavaju da naprave finansijski centar u tom delu sveta. Zaboravio sam vec detalje ali kada sam poslednji put bio u Shangaju secam se price o Shangajskoj berzi koju pokusavaju da dignu na svetski nivo ali osim nesto unutrasnjih investitora svetski investitori preskacu. Razlog je bio u tome da su firme cak i privatne previse pod drzavnim uticajem, da je drzava korumpirana itd.
A to da imaju infrastrukturu nema sumnje.

Paramecijum

Pa oni i pokušavaju da provere u praksi kakao kapitalizam funkcioniše u njihovim uslovima...

AFord

ja ne verujem u 'master plan', 1000-godisnju stratregiju i slicno.
treba otici u Kinu pa videti te mladje generacije, biznismene i tajkune koji zive potpuno drugacije zivote od 'kineza' sa besnim kolima, firmiranom garderobom i sl. Nema tu te kordinacije, top-down planiranja i sl.

Jedino sto cu ja reci je da je Kina mnogoljudna nacija i kao takva sa ili bez finansija veliki faktor za sve u svetu.

E

Quote from: AFord on January 24, 2011, 03:22:40 AM
Onoliko koliko je Americi vazna Kina toliko je Kini vazna Amerika - ako ne i vise.

upravo tako

Paramecijum

Evo, Kina najavljuje izgradnju najvećeg grada na svetu, naslonjenog na Hong Kong... i još takvih centara u skorijoj budućnosti. Očigledno oni imaju neku svoju logiku kapitalizma.

http://www.rtl.hr/kina-gradi-najveci-grad-na-svijetu-clanak-24970

A to što se pojedinci voze u dobrim kolima i šetaju u firmiranim odelima je nusprodukt irelevantan za ukupno stanje. Toga ima svuda, pojedinci se snalaze ili ne snalaze, sistem postoji.
Da li Kinezi igde u svetu prose na ulici? Rekao bih ne, a ako je tako, onda ipak postoji jedan viši/dublji sistem njihovog bivstvovanja koji nama ostalima jednostavno izmiče; kao što Jevreji imaju sveukupnu višu logiku svega što rade. Jednostavno, postoje narodi koji imaju viziju i postoje dupeglavci kao Srbi kojima je jedino bitno da podmire svoje dnevne potrebe.

AFord

Znaci ipak nisi bio u Kini?

zanimljivo je kada odes pa vidis sta su sve Kinezi imali i gde bili hiljadama godina unazad. Najcesce su bili dosta ispred takozvanog razvijenog sveta (Evrope) a opet su uvek nekako uspevali da tu prednost ispuste.

Toliko o viziji.


Pijanista

Zid se NE vidi sa Meseca


slawen

Quote from: Pijanista on January 27, 2011, 04:26:38 PM
Zid se NE vidi sa Meseca
Jeсте ли ти и Пареза из истог племена?
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Pijanista

Nismo, ja sam inzenjer, a on se valjda bavi advokaturom

slawen

Quote from: Pijanista on January 27, 2011, 09:19:08 PM
Nismo, ja sam inzenjer, a on se valjda bavi advokaturom
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