Lets hope that it won’t cost as much as the B-2, at $1 billion is easily the worlds most expensive aircraft.

If the originally-planned 132 B-2s had been built (instead of the actual 21), the “per aircraft” procurement cost would have dropped from $929 million to the low-$800 million range (if not into the high $700 millions). Note that the program cost (including development, engineering, testing, and procurement) averaged $2.1 billion per aircraft in 1997, and with 6 times as many aircraft to spread the DE&T cost across, that would be around $1.1 billion program cost per aircraft.

Including only the Super Tiger, the BAC Lightning, the prototype for the F-5 was a bit short sighted.

The F-5 was designed as a low-cost ground-attack-primary fighter-secondary aircraft.

The Super Tiger was an all-weather multirole fighter/ground attack design, and the Lightning was an all-weather interceptor-only aircraft.

Three different aircraft for three different roles.

That actually looks good!

http://www.scmp.com/news/china/article/1681710/sea-trials-how-one-man-bought-china-its-aircraft-carrier
http://www.scmp.com/news/china/article/1682731/mission-impossible-ii-battle-get-chinas-aircraft-carrier-home

In which the man who bought ex-Varyag admits: he was working for the PLAN from the start (which he lied about at the time), lied to the Ukraine to get the contract signed (the contract included a clause that the ex-Varyag was never to be made operational), lied about the presence of the engines in order to convince Turkey to let it be towed through the Bosporus and Dardanelles Straits – and the Chinese government supported those lies, telling everyone that it was not involved and that the purchase was only a private sale for the purpose of turning the ship into a casino.

Entrepreneur Xu Zengping was head of the Chong Lot Travel Agency, a Hong Kong-based company, which bought the hulk from the Ukraine.

Chong Lot was owned by Chin Luck (Holdings) Company of Hong Kong; four of Chin Luck’s six board members lived in Yantai, China, the location of a major navy shipyard*, the chairman was a former career military officer with the People’s Liberation Army.

But when you look at STOL performance, you see quite a difference. The 941 could take off over an obstacle in 787 feet, the Buffallo and G.222 in around 1,200 feet. Landing performance of the 941 equally impressive. VERY impressive STOL characteristics, even over the Buffalo and G-222 which have good STOL performance.

I haven’t seen those performance numbers. Where did you find them, and could you post them?

The latest series of documents from Edward Snowden via Der Spiegel reportedly includes details on F-35 data known to have been obtained by Chinese intelligence:

The Age

The leaked document shows that stolen design information included details of the JSF’s radar systems which are used to identify and track targets; detailed engine schematics; methods for cooling exhaust gases; and “aft deck heating contour maps”.

Mind you, “many terabytes of data” sounds more like someone with physical access to the network infrastructure, not “cyber-espionage”.

The article is a bit “compressed”.

The “aft deck heating contour maps” were of the B-2, not the F-35.

Which shows that this was much more than just an F-35 security failure.

Let’s compare two engines, one military and one commercial:

* F-135 is 46 inches in diameter, produces 28K lbs dry thrust, likely weighs 3800 lbs without afterburner, and would have an installed SFC of about 1.0

* PW6000 is 56 inches in diameter, produces 24K lbs dry thrust, weighs 5000 lbs, but the SFC is only 0.6.

Because the specific fuel consumption of the commercial engine is only 0.6, it can provide a combat radius almost twice that of the military engine. Any Chief Engineer would make that tradeoff in a heartbeat.

The SFC numbers I have found for the F135 are much lower than what you claim.
I have seen:
.886 dry and 1.920 wet
.70 lb/lbt/hr (dry), 2.0 lb/lbt/hr (with afterburner)

Yes, these are far apart (dry), but both are well below your number (whatever its source).