http://v.youku.com/v_show/id_XMjM5OTEzNzUy.html

Video of the new PLAN carrier.

http://www.asahi.com/english/TKY201012300112.html

HotDog’s link.

The turbine exhausts towards the side which is vulnerable to IR manpads. Is that a DIRCM on the engine cowling?

Some very curious circumstances.

27 March 1999, F-117 lost over Serbia
7 May 1999, Chinese embassy in Belgrade is bombed by B-2 bombers

“Central Intelligence Agency director George Tenet testified before a congressional committee that the strike was the only one in the Kosovo campaign organized and directed by his agency.”

Source: http://www.nytimes.com/1999/07/23/world/cia-says-chinese-embassy-bombing-resulted-from-its-sole-attempt-to-pick-targets.html?src=pm

“At the time, our intelligence reports told of Chinese agents crisscrossing the region where the F-117 disintegrated, buying up parts of the plane from local farmers,” says Adm. Davor Domazet-Loso, Croatia’s military chief of staff during the Kosovo war.

Western diplomats have said China maintained an intelligence post in its Belgrade embassy during the Kosovo war. The building was mistakenly struck by U.S. bombers that May, killing three people inside.”

Source: http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5iE3jMTTaEhm5I8l63W9OzWiji0-Q?docId=e8f4fe6f3cc042d8af123a99e96b2a96

An interesting article about AI and swarm combat.

Skynet meets the Swarm: how the Berkeley Overmind won the 2010 StarCraft AI competition

It could be but active cancellation has not been proved/admitted yet for high frequency.
Those antennas could be used for many other thing. Passive detection, communication/web with aircraft with enormous bandwidth, ECM, 360° radar.

They also talk about network invasion and electronic attacks but what they mean with that is unclear.

And they will be using L band, for which today’s VLO aircraft are not optimized.

360° AESA radar can also be used for directed jamming i.e. active-cancellation while evading detection of the emission. Wow!

This approach could be flexible and less costly. e.g. Less maintenance of ram coating, panel joints, no-need for internal bays (structural weight, aerodynamics compromises etc).

Network invasion and electronic attack could mean attacking a datalink. Disrupting or inserting false information into satellite links or link-16. e.g. AWACS downlink to fighters can be invaded and false targeting information provided.

I wonder if the French are planning L-band emitters.
Some AWACs platforms for example ELTA EL/M 2075 are already using L-band arrays.

Here is an example of the way France is likely to take for the Rafale:

multipurpose conformal array with a shared common aperture that could be distributed all over the fuselage and wings

Isn’t this a kind of stealth? It sounds like active cancellation.

On another thought, if it is true that the J-20’s canard contributes a significant amount of lift, can we classify J-20 as a bi-plane?

J-20, NATO codename: Fokker 😀