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China's Stealth Fighter Flight Test Successful
New submitter vencs writes "China has successfully tested its second stealth fighter, a smaller, twin-engine jet that military analysts said could potentially allow it to one day fly missions from an aircraft carrier. Military analysts said the new jet's design suggested the People's Liberation Army might use it to arm and escort aircraft carriers like the Liaoning, which was officially deployed last month. Andrei Chang, editor-in-chief of Kanwa Asian Defense Monthly, said the new prototype appears to have borrowed features from the U.S. Air Force's twin-engine F-22 and U.S. Navy's single-engine F-35C."
In an internet post nutshell over-simplification:
The initial stages of the next big conflict will go something like this:
Cyber attack on the entire nation's infrastructure.
While populace is shitting in their pants and panicking like little sheep, the drones and cheap aircraft is sent in by waves and waves to knock out the little and very expensive air force of the target country.
After that, it depends on what the ultimate goal is.
All this show of "stealth" aircraft and carriers is just to sucker the US into yet another obscenely expensive arms race to further weaken our economy in order to make us go all Soviet Union or British Empire - in both cases being a World power drained the state's coffers so much that they couldn't play and it didn't do the US much good either. Contrary to our propaganda, we did not win the Cold War: we didn't go bust first.
China has this wonderful positive cash flow: ours is negative - we cannot win a war of spending.
Remember that the next time you see lines for the next shiny new Apple thing-a-ma-bob or any other consumer shit.