If PLAAF does not release much info on the J10’s specs progress of induction etc., how can it’s progress be compared to the LCA in whose case the information is 400% reliable and released to the public. There are several forumites on this board who monitor and verify ADA releases independently.

LCA reliable information? LOL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

What ever happened to the 100% indigenous LCA? Boy how many times have we heard about everything about the LCA and turns out to be not the case at all? That’s called lying!

The US was claiming the USSR was “dazzling” some of their satellites back in the 80’s (with the US likely returning the favor). I imagine in the ensuing 20+ years they’ve come up with policies/countermeasures to deal with the problem.

Apparently not since US spy satellites are being blinded over China.

I remember when there were those first spy satellite photos revealing the J-10 there was a story on NBC news where US military officials called it a stealth fighter that was hard to see on radar.

That was all after the fact. You’re avoiding the question.

Still was a puppet government. That’s the way to get governments to do what you want by picking who and putting strings on them. Plus it was the Cold War and the “domino theory” that got the US into Southeast Asia, not the South Vietnamese crying for help.

Iraq is not going so well even with all that military might. Iraq has shown Vietnam wasn’t unique. Which means not so good for the US.

What about the geo-political situation or are you just talking military? I don’t really think you can separate the two. Are world politics the same, i.e. Cold War?

Back then Americans suffered 50k deaths. I don’t think Americans today can accept those numbers. Or are you assuming those numbers will go down? I don’t see that situation being any different. Same jungle, same problems.

I’m sure there are no holds barred for the US side, but the Vietnamese are another story, right? I’m sure today, realistically, if Vietnam wanted to get a nuke, they would be able to find a way just any other nation can today.

I will. The Red Chinese ain’t so good at something like this. Hell, their antiship missile couldn’t even sink a frakin’ corvette. :dev2:

It wasn’t their missile. It was a licensed Iranian copy. Let’s go by your illogic and go with what people like you say that the Chinese stole the technology for their anti-ship missiles from the US. Ergo, doesn’t that make American technolgy “ain’t so good?”

You’re making such conclusions while there is a cover-up over the incident? A dud doesn’t say anything. How many dud Tomahawks lay about the Iraq and Afghanistan landscape?

The technology did hit an advanced Western stealth design when it wasn’t suppose to. That’s all that really matters. And don’t give me that bull about what mode their defenses were on. The ship was designed for that theater and funny how intelligence sources didn’t know about Hezzbollah having these missiles before the incident, which would be the excuse if they didn’t really know about the enemy’s capabilities, but immediately knew what and where these missiles came from afterwards. So they quite obviously knew they had such advanced weapons before so they should’ve been prepared. Meaning that missile defeated defences meant for that weapon. So you can spin it anyway you want to make yourself feel better.

Well that Seersucker launched from Iraq that hit Kuwait City wasn’t seen by Patriots, AWACS, or Aegis. That was an obsolete missile versus state of the art sensors.