Loyal to Chairman Mao.
J-20 5th Generation Fighter VII
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Loyal to Chairman Mao.
"I also watched that show on CCTV7 back then, I totally believed it and was arguing about it with people on forums"
"You were 'volunteered' to join SFA"
"Oh, I see you're a non-registered member of the SFA"
After the maiden flight of J-20 Zhang Zhaozhong was asked in interview how come his claim of the project being an upgraded J-10 was so far from reality and he said:
Then many years later, on his own show, Zhang Zhaozhong had this to say about J-20
Zhang also famously employed strategic deception to downplay other PLA projects. He claimed J-16 was a "mildly modified J-11BS" which military fans were too eager to apply a new made up serial number to. Even admonishing people saying they should take military watching more seriously and not come up with a new name in their head just because PLAAF decided to change one screw on the plane
He also said 055 was unlike to be more than 10,000 tons since 052D is only 7,000 tons and an increase in displacement of that magnitude will cause all sorts of unforeseen problems and it would be imprudent for PLAN to make such a big leap.
Did I mention he retired from PLAN in 2015 with the rank of rear admiral
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Allegedly the "31st Captain of the "Wang Hai Brigade" and as we all know, this brigade is the former 3rd Air Division's 9th Air Regiment, today the PLAAF's 9th Air Brigade at Wuhu flying J-20A. So this seems to be the 9th Brigade's unit badge?
(Image via @空天砺剑 from Weibo)
(Image via @空天砺剑 from Weibo)
There is a caucasian in the picture, a russian ?
Either that or Ukrainian. There are a lot of Ukranian experts in Chengdu.
TerraN_EmpirE
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Air recognition and Airforce Technology both claim the reporting name is “Black eagle” which obviously breaks the old convention.
I once saw a claim of “Fire tusk” and “Far fetch”.
I once saw a claim of “Fire tusk” and “Far fetch”.
I thought that it was Firefang? Do you have a link for this claim?
TerraN_EmpirE
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My guess is that the link hasn’t been updated in a while. The Black Eagle moniker made sense when the 2001 demonstrator came out. It no longer does.
This guy is young. Not from the Soviet break era of experts soaked up by China.
The Americans and Soviets soaked up German experts following WW2.
China tried to attract as many Soviet ones as possible given China's rather bleak conditions back in that time. Many went to the US.
The guy who developed the first mathematical models for radio energy scattering for stealth aircrafts ended up in the US for example. Chinese experts themselves ended up in the US and continues to. Nvidia and AMD are founded/headed by Chinese ethnics like half of the United States' AI industry and a great deal of silicon valley. Even Chinese experts working at Los Alamos and other sensitive research institutes as much as they are considered potential leaks. One of the main engineers behind the B-2's engine IR design was an Indian guy who allegedly sold information to Chinese state.
Look at the US' Mars Perseverance mission's landing lead engineer Allen Chen.
Can it be said that so much of US technological industry (of the modern era) is at the very least contributed to by ethnic Chinese and Chinese nationals even, who were/are employed by US institutes and organisations, that their achievements are really Chinese? Well that's the implication carried by many Russian chauvinists. Everyone knows China soaked up plenty of Ukrainian and Russian experts to jump start China's MIC. But how come China's not allowed to employ caucasian experts when western nations do this almost as the main engine of their progression since the 1960s... even the Manhattan project was almost entirely led by Jews and even involved a Chinese guy they banned from traveling and wanted to jail after developing the bomb. Same with Boeing having a very important Chinese engineer before the 1960s.
All of a sudden Asian achievements with some participation of non-Asians is supposed to say something? LOL.
This young caucasian guy could be someone employed by CAC for some role related to cockpit design for all we know. The same way Intel employs Chinese nationals.
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