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6/30/2025, 9:20:56 PM
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>HALE drones, multimode seekers
Both mature technologies long before China came on the scene. The NASA Pathfinder first flew in 1993, the Global Hawk entered USAF service in 2001, and the RAF was using multimode Brimstone IIs in combat in 2008.
>fluid thrust vectoring
Not as mature, but NASA was openly publishing research papers about the concept at least as far back as 1970 and they built a static test engine in 1987. Whatever 'innovation' China is doing is built on decades of freely-available NASA research extending right up until the present day.
>Flexible stealthy control surface hinges
Ah, "muh J-50 prototype". But this shit was being flogged at trade shows ten years ago (picrel), one of the first google results is a NASA paper about it published in 1976, and if you want to get technical about it, the concept is literally as old as the airplane itself (the Wright Flyer used wing-warping)
>HALE drones, multimode seekers
Both mature technologies long before China came on the scene. The NASA Pathfinder first flew in 1993, the Global Hawk entered USAF service in 2001, and the RAF was using multimode Brimstone IIs in combat in 2008.
>fluid thrust vectoring
Not as mature, but NASA was openly publishing research papers about the concept at least as far back as 1970 and they built a static test engine in 1987. Whatever 'innovation' China is doing is built on decades of freely-available NASA research extending right up until the present day.
>Flexible stealthy control surface hinges
Ah, "muh J-50 prototype". But this shit was being flogged at trade shows ten years ago (picrel), one of the first google results is a NASA paper about it published in 1976, and if you want to get technical about it, the concept is literally as old as the airplane itself (the Wright Flyer used wing-warping)
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