It's easy to guess that an opponent that is focusing on information control and theatre above all else is doing so for reasons. > Everything they do must eithe

It's easy to guess that an opponent that is focusing on information control and theatre above all else is doing so for reasons. > Everything they do must either be a lie or just stolen American technology as an aviation enthusiast for 30+ years this claim , while deliberately blunt, is not far from the truth -- the truth being that half of their hardware was stolen Russian design, too. Let's consider : The KJ-600, the J-31, J-10, H-6, Z-20, J-7, J-15, J-11. If it isn't a direct shape-to-shape knockoff like the J-31 it's either a licensed reproduction from Russia or something derived from a reverse engineering effort like the Su-33 prototype they got from Ukraine. Similar story with their Ghost Bat knockoffs. There are very few novel designs. I'm not faulting the methodology -- the shape of the thing w.r.t. aircraft is half (if not more) of the struggle. It's a tremendous advantage to start from a known good shape and go from there. If I were the boss I would do exactly the same thing when trying to bootstrap an aerospace industry. >as if there's something inherently special about Americans that no one else has. the US has proven numerous times that this is exactly the case.