Chinese stealth jet raises 'cyber-theft' worries: Analyst
Chinese stealth jet raises 'cyber-theft' worries: Analyst
OTTAWA - While Canada struggles with whether to join the big boys by buying the F-35 for the Air Force, the Chinese are developing a second stealth fighter jet.
China's J-31 took its maiden test flight on Wednesday, which concerns aerospace expert Richard Aboulafia.
"The technological military aircraft race may have taken a break after the Cold War, but it has resumed," Aboulafia, vice-president of analysis at the Teal Group Corp., said.
Aboulafia said the J-31 looks "a lot more like the real deal" to him than the J-20 — a much larger Chinese stealth jet that's further along in development.
Still, China has trouble producing its own top-notch engines, electronic warfare systems and radar for fighter jets.
That makes it tough for the communist dictatorship to develop a true fifth-generation fighter jet on par with what the F-35 is supposed to be, but Aboulafia insists the J-31 is significant..........
The J-31 also bears a remarkable similarity to the American-designed F-35.
Aboulafia said that raises the question of Chinese "cyber-theft" of F-35 technology.
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