I can see it now… everytime something in orbit gets hit by some debris… blame the Chinese.

When China does a space walk and a taikonaut happens to lose a wrench like what happened during one of the space shuttle missions, will there be this alarm over how that wrench might eventually hit something? You better believe it.

And you know that how? Dream on!

Interesting how now all of the sudden the J-10 is pure Chinese and has nothing to do with the Lavi.

The fact is no matter what “experts” conclude, people will always believe what they want to believe regardless of what is stated. It’s called denial. That’s why Iraq is a mess for the US.

Actually more like stupidity. US R&D labs are dependent on foreigners especially the Chinese. Ten years ago I read that Chinese, American and foriegn born, make up 25% of the scientists and engineers in US R&D. It must be larger now since fewer and fewer American students go into such fields. After the Wen Ho Lee debacle, the US Congress was moving to ban all Chinese in US weapons labs, but then that policy suddenly reversed itself when Congress found out that Chinese scientists and engineers made up an important part US R&D. Damned if you do. Damned if you don’t. Maybe if American children weren’t led to believe they can all be professional athletes, rock musicians, and celebrities, the US wouldn’t be dependent on all those “foreigners” to make it Made in America!

So what are all those pics of mock up cockpits? There are 3 differnt ones there, haven’t seen any of them before. If i had to choose, the third one, darkest looking one, would be my j-10 cockpit pick. Not bad. Nice to see a wide angle HUD, too, unlike that narrow thing on FC1. First and second pic are a mystery to me…second one is too blurry to tell much really…but first one is totally weird. Judging by everythign, especially the made up scheme of twin tail & canard plane on one screen, first pic is of some concept cockpit.

Over at CDF there’s some speculation that it could be the mock-up cockpit of a new J-10 version or for the J-XX. Notice on the display that profile of the fighter that doesn’t look like anything in the PLAAF except for some of the speculative concepts of the J-XX.

J-10 makes flyby at Zhuhai!

I got this from CMF.

The cost of Rafales would be high, but nothing compared to the cost of the steam catapault technology they need to be carrier aircraft. The Chinese would probably only get such technology from France if they paid France to build them a new carrier with cats fitted. Otherwise the cost of the Rafales plus handing over cat technology would make F-22s look cheap.

China is already working on catapults.

Here is some additional help they received in tech gain…

Four arrests linked to Chinese spy ring
http://www.washtimes.com/national/20051104-111851-2539r.htm

It must be true because the world knows the US government and media don’t lie… i.e. WMDs in Iraq and the NYTimes.