China Stole Stealth Fighter Technology

Timothy Birdnow

As usual, China pretty much stole its J-35 stealth aircraft.

According to the National Interest:

One suspicion about the sudden advance in China’s aerospace program has been a predictable one: China cheated. One retired U.S. Navy captain described Beijing as having achieved in a decade a level of technical prowess it took the Navy a century to achieve and cited the country’s ability to use both open-source and stolen data to improve its programs.

China has been caught engaging in such operations before. In 2014, a Chinese national was arrested in Canada on suspicion of engaging in cyberattacks; two years later, he pled guilty to stealing data on the design of the F-22 and F-35 jets.

China has certainly made domestic advances in aerospace design, too. Between this and illicitly acquired data, however, there is a strikingandprobablynon-coincidentalsimilarity between the most recent iteration of the J-35 jet andAmerica’sF-35 jet. It remains to be seen, however, if the J-35 jet can perform at the level of its American counterpart.

While you can't blame China for stealing what we leave lying about unguarded, it does illustrate that China is in fact a paper tiger. They never actually develop their own tech but steal it from us.

But it won't make the weapon any less lethal if we go to war with China.

The real evil is our own government, who not only allowed China to become a superpower at our expense but actually encouraged it - and still does.

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