Comment by cm2187

Comment by cm2187 21 hours ago

10 replies

Well, technically Pakistan shot a Indian Rafale with a Chinese made missile a few months ago, which created some consternation in France. I heard the French explaining it away, as India trying to bomb some Pakistani territory without hitting the Pakistani military, hence putting their jet fighters in unecessary harm's way. I am not qualified to draw my own conclusions on the quality of Chinese weapons but it seems to imply they can certainly do significant damage.

slaw 20 hours ago

Rafale was shot down by J-10 plane using PL-15 missile. Rafale, Eurofighter and J-10 are old 20+ years designs. Europe has nothing equivalent to Chinese J-35 or even previous generation J-20.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shenyang_J-35

  • actionfromafar 17 hours ago

    To be fair, China doesn't have anything like the J-35 either, it's a prototype.

    • cm2187 13 hours ago

      And I hope they removed the Lockheed Martin logo from the CAD files before sending them to manufacturing!

      • spwa4 5 hours ago

        I don't think their manager will allow that, since all their aircraft designers work at Lockheed Martin during the week ...

  • mcphage 17 hours ago

    > Europe has nothing equivalent to Chinese J-35 or even previous generation J-20.

    How many J-35s does China have?