This is a discussion on J-20... The New Generation Fighter III within the Air Force forums, part of the China Defense & Military category; Originally Posted by Air Force Brat Likely expanding the low speed flight envelope, elevons, flaperons, and ruddervators configured to produce ...
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Originally Posted by Air Force Brat
Obviously so. Just that I don't remember seeing that much downward deflection. I kind of pay attention to this since there's a member here who seemed to claim that the J-20 with its wings being too aft will never deflect down its flaps during landing. I've argued against this being the evidence of the J-20 being nose heavy and now it seems that the J-20's control surfaces have enough leeways to make that much of flap downward deflection possible.
Last edited by Quickie; 04-29-2012 at 05:47 AM.
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You are quite right Quickie, the J-20 is in a very normal configuration for landing, the airbrake could likely be deployed to slow her further. As I noted earlier, she is set up to make lift fore and aft as the canard is also generating lift.
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Why are there some pleasants using the eye power behind the J-20 in the testing area who are not in uniforms!
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Somewhere in this forum I wrote that pride was the greatest weapon China's adversaries feared in its arsenal and I pointed to the video below as being more alarming than the J-20 itself. Thank you David Axe for confessing it. China's blogger's are accidental America's spies? Translation: David Axe is trying reverse psychology because he don't like Chinese pride being expressed. What a pointless article! Should I turn the tables and say how it shows American ineptness in gathering intelligence. Which one is more the scandal? Chinese are more technologically advanced than thought or the US is not as...? That's what's he's admitting. The airfield is located in a public accessed neighborhood. Some American spy can't setup in a building or hotel nearby and gather intelligence on what's needed instead of relying on an accidental Chinese citizen spy with a cell phone? Let's not forget that footage happened when Robert Gates was in China and it was called a intentional slap on his face. So the Chinese accidental spy that took this footage means nothing in the end of it. Shouldn't he be taunting the Chinese military but then the Gates "slap" tells it was an intentional unveiling. Sounds pretty desperately insecure to me to try to spin a non-event into a story. Let's do the simple math right back. It says David Axe doesn't like seeing all these videos of the J-20 appearing on the internet. Just don't watch them, David Axe. But that's really not enough. Is stopping videos of the J-20 on the internet going to stop the J-20 program? No. He just doesn't like seeing the average Chinese being exuberant over it. That's what it means. You see in Key Aviation they completely killed the J-20 thread that was getting more views than anything else in that forum. They didn't lock it up. They got rid of it. So David Axe is not alone.
Are Chinese Bloggers America's Accidental Spies? | Danger Room | Wired.com
Are Chinese Bloggers America’s Accidental Spies?
By David Axe
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April 24, 2012 |
2:30 pm |
Categories: China
On Dec. 22, 2010, someone apparently pointed a cellphone out of the window of a car driving along a public road outside the perimeter of a military airfield in Chengdu, an industrial city in central China. The person holding the phone, whose name has never been revealed, snapped a photo of a black-painted jet fighter taxiing through fog blanketing the airfield.
“Accidental spies” like the Chengdu photo are the subject of my feature in the new Pacific Standard magazine. (Danger Room’s own Spencer Ackerman is also a contributor.)
With his simple act, the photographer appeared to outperform the $80-billion-a-year U.S. spy community, which has the advantage of a plethora of drones, satellites, hackers and old-fashioned human spies. The snapshot was the first hard evidence of China’s very first “fifth-generation” stealth fighter, the J-20 — and it seemed to come as a surprise to some Pentagon analysts. “We have been pretty consistent in underestimating the delivery and initial operational capability of Chinese technology weapons systems,” Vice Adm. David Dorsett said.
In 2009, then-U.S. Secretary of Defense Robert Gates had predicted that China would “have no fifth-generation aircraft by 2020.” Granted, Gates might have meant operational fifth-generation aircraft. All the same, the J-20′s appearance years ahead of schedule was a dramatic demonstration of China’s rapidly expanding aerospace prowess. And discovering it was also a signature achievement by a relatively unknown group of Chinese internet users whose military-technology fandom is having a profound effect on the most important strategic rivalry of the early 21st century.
The Chinese fanboys, who post rumors, photos and snippets of technical data to a wide range of blogs and forums, are America’s de-facto spies in China, hoovering up information on Beijing’s latest planes, ships, missiles and ground vehicles and making it widely available to U.S. analysts, journalists, military planners and policymakers.
The Chengdu snapshot’s roundabout journey from the photographer’s cellphone to computer screens in the United States is typical of the postings from these Chinese forum members. The photog uploaded the J-20 shot to an obscure military forum apparently hosted inside the firewalled Chinese internet. That’s where one prominent, U.S.-based Chinese forum member found the photo. This person, whose name I agreed not to mention, uploaded it to Top81, a popular forum that includes an English-language extension that is easily accessible by foreigners.
On Christmas Day 2010, Bill Sweetman, one of the world’s leading aviation journalists, noticed the photo at Top81 and, appreciating its significance, linked to it at Ares, the website of Defense Technology International magazine. Sweetman’s link spawned countless other links. There were skeptics, at first. But within a few days the J-20 was featured in newspaper headlines all over the Western world. Shortly thereafter Dorsett admitted the Pentagon was behind the curve.
It’s not actually certain that the fanboys are better spies than the Pentagon’s, CIA’s and NSA’s professional spooks. It’s possible that the Chinese People’s Liberation Army controls the trickle of information to the forums, and by extension to Western audiences — perhaps making the fanboys more propagandists than spooks. Read the article in Pacific Standard, and decide for yourself.
Last edited by AssassinsMace; 04-30-2012 at 02:19 AM.
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At least he's acknowledging that chinese military forums are valid sources of info to a degree.
But that has some implications for us (not here per se, china defense forum imho is now the "vanguard" of consistent high quality discussion, not that SDF hasn't broken its own stories first). The fact that some of what is written on these forums could very well translate to knowledge on the part of western intelligence, or at least filter down to media (not that we didn't know before --but this effectively confirms it), is something we should consider. Is it a good thing, that we could be playing a few cards into the opposing side? Would it be better if developing PLA capabilities (even if we're only aware of a fraction of them), were kept from the public eye so as to not prompt the other side to fund their own militaries more (or at least allocate declining funding in more relevant areas)
Obviously david axe doesn't mention at all the homeland and overseas support for military modernization and only in terms of the government using it as propaganda and "nationalism," as if it's a testosterone filled, vain exercise that is somehow not integral to the country's future. I wonder if david axe frequents SDF. I would very much like to give him a middle finger.
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By David Axe's own logic he's China's accidental spy. If the average Chinese citizen with a cell phone is more valuable for intelligence than what the US is capable, then isn't taunting the Great Firewall of China to do its thing betraying the US?
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Oh, was looking for you AssassinsMace. Why ? Well i just noticed that in the latest Air International there's an article about J-20 called "Assassin's mace ?" Don't know if you have anything to do with it , or they just stole your name...
Btw, and if i'm to give my opinion about this Axe thing ...the way i see it , the americans ( conforming to known stereotypes) are just so butthurt every time China achieves a success, or they are not proved to be the "opressive/represive/secretive/hidden agenda for world domination" regime they are desperately trying to portray for the masses. Things like J-20 surely ruffled a few feather off the american eagle. Have you seen the vociferous anti-chinese propaganda and all kind of finger pointing coming from their government representatives? When they passed that CISPA , reason they invoked was oh it's China's fault, because they copy and steal the America's ( f*** yeah!) ingenuity blah blah blah, so they have to spy on everyone to prevent that.
I hope China ruffles more of american eagle's feathers , by achieving more successes, and becoming stronger by the day. Go China!
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f-22 and j-20
http://v.ifeng.com/include/exterior....b-9b659810f3bb
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No, "assassin's mace" is actually a Chinese military strategy meaning to win the war before it starts. If you read some Western interpretations, they make it out to be an evil act. Sort of like how they associate dragons with evil because their myths make them evil therefore they think Chinese worship a mythological evil being but they aren't evil and they don't breathe fire. China's potential adversaries all the time have their version of assassin's mace. They don't want China to modernize its military so when they fight it, they'll know they'll win.
Last edited by AssassinsMace; 04-30-2012 at 03:54 PM.
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dragons have several meaning in western thought, dragons are symbol of the devil in christianity, however dragons in the east have other symbology and interpretration.
In the west the name black eagle, or mighty dragon has no meaning of devil, because it is out of the religious context.
As dragon can mean a dinosaur, a comodo dragon or a lizard or even a medieval dragon, so calling J-20 a dragon has no bad meaning, since it is thought Dragons are part of Chinese culture.
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I think he's referring to the West generalizing everything associated with Chinese in general.
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2002 playing with its engines behind the fence.
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That made me lol for a moment. Not sure why. Then I realized I imagined planes were people for a moment, making a plane's engines a person's... never mind.
How do we know that's 2002 and not 2001? It's too blurry to tell whether the star is in 2001's middle or 2001's higher fin position.
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Peter Jackson is supposedly producing a movie based off some book where Napoleon or someone like that gets their hands on a Chinese dragon egg and it hatches and it's evil and and used for evil purposes.
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The emblem does look positioned a little higher.
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Are You sure that this is 2002 !!! ??
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