Without building and flying their designs how can the Chinese even understand what mistakes others have made? Its called experience and there is no short cut around it.
What are you basing your assessment on? What non-US stealth aircraft are you comparing this opinion of your against? Right now the United States is it and the fact that the US is having some difficulty pulling all these elements together just demonstrates how difficult it is to assemble a competent stealthy aircraft.
And you should remember that F-22 and F-35 are SECOND generation stealth aircraft with F-117 and B-2 being the first generation.
Oh really? China has never built an aircraft as complex as even a first generation stealth aircraft. And now you look at an aircraft like the J-20 and the latest offering from China and tell me that they will not make the same mistakes for sure! Sadly you are just judging these Chinese aircraft only from their shapes and those external views are a poor indicator as to the stealthiness of those Chinese aircraft.
You already know that these Chinese aircraft are flying without engines capable of supercruise due to Chinese engine manufactures have trouble mastering the technologies needed for advanced engines. And when capable engines will be available is anybodies guess
You also have no idea of what coatings the Chinese can apply to these aircraft. But without the right coatings stealth is compromised. Stealth is more than shapes.
What you are trying to tell me is that China is going to leap over nearly 30 years of hard work by Lockeed Skunkworks, Northrup and others and create in ten short years a state of the art stealth aircraft that is on the same level as these designs being flown today. And you are going to tell me that Chinese workers assembling designs in China for western companies are going to provide the labor?
Get a cold towel and wipe your face because you are dreaming friend. Wake up!
Oh NikeX, every time I read you post I get this fuzzy and warm feeling inside. You actually make this forum interesting, you represents just about every egocentric American out there.
But yes, you are right, your logic is flawless, clearly China must build their first generation stealth jet such as F-117 in order to build their second gen stealth jet. I mean there are nations that never build any air craft, so for them to start, they must start with the hot air boons, with any luck, they may progress to the Wright Brothers's planes, then and only then they can gain valuable experience onto the powerful bi-planes, after that depends on their experience, they may able to research propeller engine planes. And if everything goes well, in about 60 more years they may produce their first stealth jet fighter.
Clearly China is doing something wrong here, they are skipping their F-117 directly onto their F-22, so of course they will fail, am i rite my brother? hi-5!!!!
