To quote the Director of TsAGI ~2 years ago on ORT news, if memory serves:
Reporter: “I understand you’re outsourcing to Chinese companies as well as Boeing and Airbus?”
Director: “Yes, we’re currently working on 2 new Chinese fighter designs”
Reporter: “can you elaborate?”
Director: “HET”.
However:
This source also notes that by 1993 China had reached an agreement for engaging Russian consultants from their Central Aerohyrodynamics Institute (TsAGI) and from the Mikoyan Company to study advanced aero designs, knowledge that was shared with the 601 and 611 institutes.[20] Chengdu has also had a long consulting relationship with the Siberian Aeronautical Research Institute (SibNIA), the Siberian branch of TsAGI located in Novosibirsk.[21] SibNIAâs assistance on Chengduâs J-10 fighter could have also been applied to Chengduâs 4th/5th generation program…
…A Chengdu 611 Institute brochure obtained around the November 2002 Zhuhai Airshow included a computer simulation design for an apparent heavy twin-engine canard-delta design which bore some resemblance to the aborted Mikoyan MiG 1.44 5th generation fighter prototype. Reporting from the time of this aircraftâs unveiling in 1999 indicated some Russian interest in selling it to China,[27]
http://www.strategycenter.net/research/pubID.219/pub_detail.asp
I wasn’t aware clamping a DSI intake onto a MiG Izdeliye 33 design (feeding an RD-93) makes you ‘Master of the Engineering Universe’. However, I admit the design was legally purchased along with considerable assistance from OKB MiG, and was in no way shape or form counterfeited.
I wonder if history will repeat itself (as rumoured) with the 1.44 :confused:.
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