Saturday, January 8, 2011

Dangerous: New Chinese J-20 Stealth Fighter May Be “Leaps and Bounds Above Where We Are”

We have to hope this information is wrong and the new Chinese stealth fighter is over-hyped.
(Fox News)- While the Pentagon downplays China’s rollout this week of what appears to be a jet fighter designed using sophisticated stealth technology, military experts are warning that the aircraft – reportedly capable of besting America’s F-22 in speed and maneuverability – could pose the greatest threat yet to U.S. air superiority.

Decorated Navy fighter pilot Matthew “Whiz” Buckley, a Top Gun graduate of the Navy Fighter Weapons School who flew 44 combat missions over Iraq, says, “It’s probably leaps and bounds above where we are, and that’s terrifying.”

“As a former Navy fighter pilot, going up against something that’s stealthy, highly maneuverable and with electronic systems more capable than mine — that’ll keep me up at night,”...

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

so lets buy some....everything else we buy is from china

Bluegrass Pundit said...

Anonymous said...

"so lets buy some....everything else we buy is from china"

Ouch!