Which F-16? F-16 that lavi come from, off course.

F-16 late not late still not compare with J-10. Our J-10 have big canary wings so turn good! And J10 still no crash but F-16 crash many times! With magnified chinese engineering J10 is 2000 produce, F-16 is 1970 crashing heep!

The F-16 has big LERXes and newer an more powerful engines armed with HMD and modern AIM-9Xs, IRIS-T or Python V or IV it won`t need to chase the J-10 simply lock the missile and hit the J-10

Really, most potential PAK-FA Orders are likely to be small with the possible exception of India. Personally, I wonder if China will pursue the type or go its own way????:confused: If, it does that could provide unwanted competition for Russia!:eek:

i guess Brazil will buy at least 100, but if they buy it perhaps Argentina and Venezuela may do the same

Mexican air force Mi-8 and a mexican made UAV the Ehecatl

And how does the air get ionized?

The principle is quiet similar to the solar wind and earth`s magnetic field, without the magnetic field our athmosphere would had been worn out as Mars` and probably we would had lost it
like in the case of the Moon if ever had one.

The Plasma basicly is inpermeable to the magnetic field as it happens to the ions (solar wind) when they strucks earth`s atmosphere, this theoretically could be used to make an aircraft stealthy.

Basicly Plasma is ionized gases, this could be made by ionizing the laminar flow across the aircraft.

sourcehttp://www.astronomy.pomona.edu/Projects/planetary/page21.html

In spite of its low density, the solar wind, and its accompanying magnet field, is strong enough to interact with the planets and their magnetic fields to shape magnetospheres. A magnetosphere is the region surrounding a planet where the planet’s magnetic field dominates. Because the ions in the solar plasma are charged, they interact with these magnetic fields, and solar wind particles are swept around planetary magnetospheres. Life on Earth has developed under the protection of this magnetosphere.
The shape of the Earth’s magnetosphere is the direct result of being blasted by solar wind. Solar wind compresses its sunward side to a distance of only 6 to 10 times the radius of the Earth. A supersonic shock wave is created sunward of Earth somewhat like a sonic boom. This shock wave is called the bow shock. Most of the solar wind particles are heated and slowed at the bow shock and detour around the Earth. Solar wind drags out the night-side magnetosphere to possibly 1000 times Earth’s radius; its exact length is not known. This extension of the magnetosphere is known as the magnetotail. Many other planets in our solar system have magnetospheres of similar, solar wind-influenced shapes.

More about the magnetosphere…

http://helios.gsfc.nasa.gov/magnet.html

In theory plasma steath will work in a similar way, but in the opposite way, the plasma gas will detour the radar waves in the same way the magnetosphere detours the solar wind and not reflecting them back to the radar source

Zmey,

Yea, perhaps it sounds a little selfish. Really I think I’m just frustrated by having to make sense of those funny little (confusing) robotic translations. Though to be fair it happens on other forums a lot more than here…

His way is not bad, it is not perfect true since it can lead to misinterpretations but any way is a way to know what at least the text says so you can do a second translation with an online dictionary and improve the translation but i guess medal did the right thing if you want to know what it says at least in a very superficial way