The PRC fanboys don’t seem to get it. Let me spell it out as simply as I can.

The J-11 is a reverse engineered copy of the Su-27 just like the Soviet Tu-4 Bull was a reversed engineered copy of the Boeing B-29 Superfortress was (to use an example we all would be familiar with).

Yes it is an impressive technical achievement to reverse engineer such a complex piece of kit.

Yes it is impressive that the PRC has developed the subsystems, avionics and the like to equip it.

But at the end of the day the Chinese illegally copied the design of a plane they had no legal right to copy.

And not a single PRC fanboy can point to an agreement, a document, a source or a handshake that proves that the Russians gave permission for such a blatant rip off of their intellectual property.

It is a rip off. Plain and simple.

…There are still a lot of open question in regard of the sinking of the Cheonan, especially about the exact circumstances. Was a North Korean submarine detected? Did the Cheonan react somehow? Or was she completely surprised – which would be very strange considering where she was patrolling.

Yes indeed there are open questions around the circumstances. However your last sentence I have to, with all due respect, question. Theoretically the NK mini sub could have been next to completely silent, stationkeeping on batteries only, emitting next to no sound emissions that a steaming warship could have detected on passive systems.

Unless the Cheonan was actively pinging away with a bow sonar or using a helo, it would have been quite easy for this type of attack to have taken place.

Apologies if this is in the wrong topic, Can anyone tell me how Hitlers V2 weapons were targeted…..Obviosuley the V1’s were pointed in the general direction , but id be interested to learn how the V2 was guided :confused: The only knowledge i have is that there were four control surfaces at the rear.

Wikipedia is your friend! 😀

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/V-2#Technical_details

this carrier is going to be used

+ 10 million

The PRC is the only permanent member of the UN Security Council that does not have an aircraft carrier. This ship will rectify that.

Well, I’m not sure that IP about a 40 years old chopper is still really usefull.

With due respect, a moot point. China does not own the design for the Super Frelon do they??? If they do not own the design then add it to the J-11B as yet another theft of the property on others.

http://thechronicleherald.ca/Metro/1171508.html

The helicopter that will someday replace the Sea King in Canadian naval service is being put through its paces on HMCS Montreal.

A test model of the Sikorsky CH-148 Cyclone was placed on the frigate’s deck by crane this past Monday in Halifax Harbour.

“That’s a milestone we’re proud of, one we’ve been working hard toward for several years,” said Maj. William O’Gorman, the leader of the testing team made up of personnel from Sikorsky and the Canadian military.

Up until now, work on the Cyclone has been done in Florida.

The Halifax phase began about two weeks ago, beginning with making sure the frigate’s electronic system won’t interfere with the test helicopter’s complex monitoring system, O’Gorman said in a phone interview Monday.

Over the next two weeks, the frigate’s system that secures the helicopter after landing will be modified to accommodate the Cyclone.

“Understandably, the ship can be a moving surface, it’s not like an airfield,” O’Gorman said, so measures must be taken to make sure the helicopter doesn’t fall off the ship after landing.

This testing will be done while the Montreal is docked at a jetty in HMC Dockyard. Eventually the ship and helicopter will be taken out of the harbour into a nearby bay to practise landings and takeoffs.

After that, likely at the end of April, the trial will move into open seas.

“The sea acceptance trials will be conducted in the North Atlantic until we find the right weather conditions for the tests that we need,” O’Gorman said.

The federal government is spending $5 billion on 28 Cyclones, the first of which is scheduled to be delivered by June 2012.

The navy will fly its aging fleet of Sea King helicopters until then.

The Cyclone helicopter’s original contract had specified that 28 choppers be delivered, at a rate of one per month, beginning in November 2008.

However, a revised contract allows for the delivery of the helicopters to begin in November, two years behind schedule, The Canadian Press has reported.

The contract also doesn’t require the choppers to meet crucial long-distance endurance specifications until after the 19th helicopter has been delivered in 2012. The Cyclone must be able to fly for 170 minutes under extreme conditions, but it has yet to meet those requirements.

The endurance limits will be tested back in West Palm Beach in the near future, O’Gorman said.

Questions have also been raised about the helicopter’s ability to run in the event of a serious oil leak. Sikorsky’s civilian version of the Cyclone crashed off Newfoundland in March 2009 after a gearbox leak, killing 17 of the 18 people aboard.

The Defence Department has given assurances that the Cyclones will be able to fly for 30 minutes with a dry gearbox.

Everyone who has been involved in the trials has been impressed with the CH-148, O’Gorman said.

“It’s generations ahead of the Sea King,” he said. “From either the glass cockpit or the vibration environment, you know you’ve been in an aircraft that’s designed with modern tools and (is) modern generation, as opposed to an aircraft that’s getting a little older right now.”

Looks like people have taken notice, spotting Qatar’s distinctively painted C-17 in Buenos Aires recently, probably a stopover while delivering supplies to Santiago after their earthquake.

An awfully expensive billboard

The article clearly points out F-15SE as a very real option.

Don’t know why the Israelis are in a souch a rush though. Its not like any of the the neighbouring countries are getting any new fancy toys any time soon either (I don’t count Egypts 30 “new” F-16s here), so.. And especially not Iran.

So Iran perhaps picking up S-300’s and maybe J-10’s does not factor in???