Jane’s Defence Weekly is reporting that interviews with Russian aeronautical engineers have added further confirmation that China’s J-10 fighter program received extensive Israeli assistance during the 1990s. A shortened version of the article is also available from Jane’s public access website:
http://www.janes.com/news/defence/systems/jdw/jdw080519_2_n.shtml
Jane’s interviewed a number of Russian engineers who were directly involved with the J-10 program, after Israeli support for the fighter was gradually withdrawn. Among other details, the Russians revealed the following:
[*]Models of the J-10 were sent to Russian wind tunnel facilities in 2000 to confirm spin and high angle-of-attack performance.
[*]Jane’s also reports that the impact of the May 11th earthquake on the Chengdu aeronautical complex was potentially severe. Chengdu’s nearby research center at Mianyang, for example, was reportedly destroyed, and damage to other aeronautical facilities in the region is all but certain.
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May 20, 2008 at 1:48 am