Tuesday, December 09, 2014

F-35 News. China claims the J-31 is superior to the F-35.

Thanks for the link William!


via Investors Business Daily.
The battle for stealth is heating up with China boasting that its J-31 stealth fighter can out-fly Lockheed Martin's (NYSE:LMT) F-35, according to the president of Aviation Industry Corp of China on Tuesday."When it takes to the sky, it can definitely take it down," Lin Zuoming said on China Central Television in reference to the F-35, according to Reuters. "That's a certainty."
China wants to make its version of the stealth fighter available to countries that don't have access or the money for the F-35, which is the Pentagon's costliest weapons program.
Read the entire article here.

Should we be worried?  No.  Should we be aware?  Definitely.  But we've been here before.  After the Vietnam War the United States pulled its head out of the jungle, looked around and saw that the Soviet Union had "better" fighters.

What did we do?

We honed tactics.  We developed better missiles.  We designed world beating aircraft.

We can do it again.

But first we have to kill the albatross from Lockheed Martin called the F-35.