Shenyang next gen combat aircraft (?J-XDS)

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uguduwa

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Syrida2887 said:
In fact, SAC has already started the moving process, but the construction of the new factory still needs several years, and it will become the main production line of J-35 in the future (it is not difficult to imagine that J35A, as a "cheap product", can be produced by assembly line in countries where J-20 can maintain high production efficiency, just like they assemble cars and mobile phones).
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Where is the new factory? Can‘t they just move it into the desert like Skunk Works?
 
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uguduwa said:
Where is the new factory? Can‘t they just move it into the desert like Skunk Works?
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SkunkWorks isn't really in some remote desert. Its in a suburb of Los Angeles,
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The issue is that you cannot just move an aircraft factory. You need to move all the workers, their families and build another air strip. And then you need all the support network; the buildings, schools, shops, grocery stores.

So the best you can do is move it somewhere where you have more space to expand and a little more control over who gets to see what is on the runway.
 
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SkunkWorks isn't really in some remote desert. Its in a suburb of Los Angeles,
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The issue is that you cannot just move an aircraft factory. You need to move all the workers, their families and build another air strip. And then you need all the support network; the buildings, schools, shops, grocery stores.

So the best you can do is move it somewhere where you have more space to expand and a little more control over who gets to see what is on the runway.
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Yeah, and it just so happens that best engineers, and more importantly their spouses, often fail to appreciate beauty of pastoral life away from mundane pleasures of big city life.

Especially when you're considering things like kids education, which is, putting it very mildly, an important concern in China.
Private sector likes talents, too.
 
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uguduwa said:
Where is the new factory? Can‘t they just move it into the desert like Skunk Works?
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I should have attached the corresponding satellite map to my previous post(#2,163), and I can find the aerial photos of news reports on X, in which the factory building has a length of 750 meters and a main span of about 290 meters.
 
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