Re: China to aquire Tu-22M3 backfire?!
Originally posted by zheng1980
Recent visit to Russian Test flight center Zhukovsky by People’s Liberation Army defense minister has stired up a rumor that PLAAF or the PLAN is to aquire the backfire. Chinese Feng Huang channel has openly suggested that Tu-22M3 and the Mig-31 may be on the new weapons purchasing list. Many Chinese military forums has also discussed the possibility of purchasing the back fire.Anyone here have anything to say on this issue? and any fellow Chinese here can tell me how this rumor started?
With the JH-7, the Su-30’s, etc., etc., on the payroll, I doubt the
Tu-22 would surve any real purpose anymore. The element of surprise now days is stealth
and that’s not quite on the Chinese buffet table just yet.
For all others, with good air cover, the above would do the trick:
Originally posted by Arthur
That model on the top pic doesn’t look much like the FTC-2000 at all. What the FTC-2000 mockup has shown is that it’s basically the fuselage of a MiG-21U/JJ-7 with a slightly raised rear cockpit mated with the nose and intakes of the FC-1. The nose on that model seems far too long, and the intakes look more like those dodgy scabbed-on ones of the sort you can see on the Kiran or HAL’s IJT.
Actually, the top pix shows how the FTC-2000 can be dressed up in its
full combat gears — as jet fighter. I have a Buddy who is super in the Chinese
language; he went through the article together with me; and he said the whole article
itself is purely about the FTC-2000’s many functions which are as follow:
a) as a trainer
b) as a trainer/fighter or
c) as a full fledge fighter
Try Babblefish if you are
in doubt or if skeptical that the top pic is
that of the FTC-2000.
And now — to Mushroom Cloud: 🙂
As said: Beauty is in the eyes of the beholder….
And that means that to some people, that anything/everything Chinese
is either MiG-21, reverse engineered, copied, helped or assisted by people
other than that of the country the item itself has originated…
“How so convienient it is 🙂 !!!”.
And, the T-50 an F-16???
Yes, the T-50 is indeed a cool plane. But, saying that it’s an F-16
is streaching the imagination a wee bit, don’t you think? I mean, by golly it’s almost not even
supersonic!!! Therefore, definitely no sell there friend. In fact, and if I may say so,
it’s not even in par with that of Taiwan’s IDF never mind the F-16…
What then, is the T-50???
In terms of capability, try categorizing it as an updated 21st century A-4 Skyhawk instead.
And we all know that the Skyhawk is a first rated first class A/C because of its size in comparison to the load
it can carry. And that means it indeed is a killer among planes but still no F-16 if you ask me!!
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