In regards to the J-10 doing that maneuver everyone is questioning in that video… it might have come from this video of a guy who made a J-10 radio-controlled model.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3tNz09UdLCg

China’s never happy about anything Japan does.

That’s funny since anything China does without approval of the West seems to send eveyone into paranoia mode. Just talk in the West, not among PLA circles, of China getting an aircraft carrier has the West screaming China is plotting to take over the world. What hypocrisy!

The twin seater is a lot more photgenic. A lot of the pics of the J10B/S look very modern. I would love to see what a twin engine would look like.

I thought I read somewhere that there are parts on Stingers that need replacing after a certain time or they’ll become useless. So unless those Stingers Afghanistan has got replacements somehow, the insurgents are using something else. Stingers aren’t the only ones out there anyway.

Sounds like maybe the same thing that forced the Soviets to leave Afghanistan is happening in Iraq to the US.

Well the WS-13 seems to be well on its way in contrary. Still doesn’t explain why India doesn’t buy advanced Western weapons over Russian. All you said about the Chinese engine can be said of Russia in general on arms compared to the West.

I find this whole FC-1 engine thing with the Russians suspicious. If the WS-13engine is well on its way, then wouldn’t the Russian more than anyone know about it. If so, was this whole engine tug-of-war show more about scaring India into keeping good ties with Russia since India was putting many Western arms on there wish list in the past few years. There seems to have been a lot of deals, i.e. miltary arms and nuclear power plants, between India and Russia lately where India could’ve easily bought from the West instead.

There should’ve been a countdown clock to when someone would suggest the ASAT tech used by the Chinese was US in origin. Love the hypocrisy of accusing China of militarizing space by developing such a weapon and then claim the technology was from the US.

GOP senator: Confront China weapons test By FOSTER KLUG, Associated Press Writer
55 minutes ago

A Republican senator criticized the Bush administration Monday for failing to aggressively confront China over its test of a satellite-killing weapon, which he called a provocative militarization of space.

“Key policy makers seem oblivious to the nature and the urgency of the threat,” Sen. Jon Kyl (news, bio, voting record), Ariz., told an audience at the Heritage Foundation, a conservative think tank. “It’s time to start speaking out about this.”

The Jan. 11 test destroyed a defunct Chinese weather satellite by hitting it with a warhead launched from a ballistic missile.

A week later, National Security Council spokesman Gordon Johndroe said: “The United States believes China’s development and testing of such weapons is inconsistent with the spirit of cooperation that both countries aspire to in the civil space area. We and other countries have expressed our concern to the Chinese.”

Kyl said the “muted response” in the United States has been due in part to the fierce congressional debate about the war in Iraq, which has drawn attention away from other foreign policy issues.

Kyl also linked the administration’s silence to a “complicated relationship with China, which is difficult to manage under the best of circumstances. There is so much we want to engage with China.”

He mentioned U.S.-Chinese trade interests, and the need to secure Chinese help in the United Nations to confront alleged illicit nuclear programs in Iran and North Korea. This, Kyl said, “inhibits our government from being as forthright as I think we should be in criticizing the Chinese when they do something as provocative as this.”

The danger, he said, is that “China believes that it must develop space weapons for its own security, specifically for preparation for possible conflict with the United States over Taiwan.”

Kyl called for congressional hearings to ensure that the Chinese program is not based on U.S. technology, “either shared or stolen.”

Also Monday, the deputy director of the U.S. Missile Defense Agency said in a discussion of the missile program’s capabilities that his agency had not been given the mandate to counteract the kind of technology that China demonstrated in its recent test. But he added that current technologies could be easily adapted to defend against an attack on U.S. satellites.

“That work would be straightforward if we were given that guidance or mandate,” said Brig. Gen. Patrick O’Reilly.