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    China’s Newest Fighter Jet Looks Awfully Familiar, Raising Concerns From the Pentagon

    China’s Newest Fighter Jet Looks Awfully Familiar, Raising Concerns From the Pentagon

    By Charles Samuel (12 hours ago) | Nation, Technology, World



    Usually, the running joke is that everything in stores has a ‘Made In China’ sticker on it. Well, we might want to leave fighter jets out of that conversation.
    China’s unveiling their latest project this week at the Zhuhai international airshow, and it looks a whole lot like something we’ve seen before. According to U.S. Naval Institute:
    The J-31 is China’s latest crack at developing a modern so-called fifth-generation stealth fighter — equivalent in ability to Lockheed Martin’s F-22 Raptor or F-35 Lighting II Joint Strike Fighter.
    Here’s the J-31:



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    China's new J-31 stealth fighter on show officially for the first time: http://on.ft.com/11dPSZH
    6:13 AM - 11 Nov 2014

    Compare that to the Lockheed Martin F-35:



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    Lockheed Martin announces Roketsan teaming on new F-35 standoff missile http://bit.ly/10qzvZo @LockheedMartin #F35
    11:29 AM - 23 Oct 2014

    While it’s entirely possible that the J-31–whose engines are being designed and delivered by Russia–is the natural evolution of years of Chinese military research and innovation, there’s speculation from the U.S. Naval Institute that:
    ‘The J-31 is designed using technology stolen from the Pentagon’s nearly $400 billion Lockheed Martin F-35 Joint Strike Fighter program.’
    Is the original iteration a good jet, at least? That’s up for debate. According to Time, the F-35 became:
    ‘… a poster child for Pentagon profligacy in a new era of tightening budgets… Its pilots’ helmets are plagued with problems, it hasn’t yet dropped or fired weapons, and the software it requires to go to war remains on the drawing board.’
    So, why would China put together a project that looks and feels like a spitting image of an American stealth fighter? According to the U.S. Naval Institute article, this week’s airshow is a big hint that China intends to use the opportunity to ‘[show] it off… [and] attract prospective buyers.’
    On Twitter, users are noticing the resemblance.



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    Look all I'm saying is the J-31 looks disturbingly like the F-35 flash drive I have at my desk. @CombatAir #avgeek
    10:10 AM - 31 Oct 2014



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    New J-31 photos from #China over city of Zhuhai. Industrial espionage at its best. Straight copy of F-22 and F-35
    10:58 AM - 29 Oct 2014

    For now, the long black streaks of black smoke that the jet’s engines leave in the skies probably don’t reflect too positively on its stealth capabilities. So we aren’t necessarily looking at a battle-ready item here.
    But it sure looks familiar.

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    China unveiled a new stealth fighter to coincide with President Obama's visit — and it features technology stolen by the Chinese hacking of Lockheed Martin.



    Demonstration flights by the new J-31 fighter jet -- China's second new radar-evading warplane -- were a key feature at a major arms show in Zhuhai, located near Macau.
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    China takes new stealth jet for test flight during Obama visit

    By Bill Gertz
    Published November 12, 2014Washington Free Beacon



    Shown here is China's new J-31 fighter jet. (Reuters)

    China's military upstaged the Asian economic summit in Beijing this week by conducting test flights of a new stealth jet prototype, as the White House called on Beijing to halt its cyber attacks.
    Demonstration flights by the new J-31 fighter jet -- China's second new radar-evading warplane -- were a key feature at a major arms show in Zhuhai, located near Macau, on Monday.
    The J-31 flights coincided with President Obama's visit to Beijing for the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation summit meeting. In a speech and meetings with Chinese leaders, Obama called on China to curtail cyber theft of trade secrets.
    China obtained secrets from the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter through cyber attacks against a subcontractor for Lockheed Martin. The technology has shown up in China's first stealth jet, the J-20, and in the J-31. Both of the jets' design features and equipment are similar to those of the F-35.
    The Chinese warplanes are part of a major buildup of air power by China that includes the two new stealth fighters, development of a new strategic bomber, purchase of Russian Su-35 jets, and development of advanced air defense missile systems. China also is building up its conventional and nuclear missile forces.
    Meanwhile, White House Deputy National Security Adviser Ben Rhodes told reporters in Beijing Tuesday that the president would press China's leader Xi Jinping to curb Chinese cyber espionage.
    "Cybersecurity, of course, will be an important focus for the president, given some of our concerns related to cybersecurity and the theft of intellectual property," Rhodes said in advance of Obama's meeting Tuesday with Xi.

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