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To: long-gone who wrote (67837)	4/18/2001 5:22:36 PM
From: Hawkmoon	Read Replies (1) of 116764

Who knows... sounds like propaganda to me since I don't think we have much to fear from an attack by the Chinese (and the fact that they don't have reason to fear an attack by the US) If anything, the threat of having a US carrier in the S. China sea, where it would be monitoring even more closely Chinese naval excercises, and certainly causing the Chinese navy Admirals to lose face, would be something they want to avoid. So the discussions are probably going something like this... US: "Quit screwing with our unarmed surveillance flights flying in international waters, or we'll send in the fleet and defend international law because if we don't then other hostile states will take this as a precedent"... China: "Do we want this situation to escalate to a level that was far more tense than before the incident?.. What have we to gain by having a US carrier in the S. China Sea, where we are trying to claim our stake on the Paracels and Spratly Islands." So what's probably going to happen is the Chinese keep the plane and the US gets to fly surveillance missions with no further close harassment.' PS: I've never heard of a SU-23, let alone a stealth capable Russian Fighter (the composites manufacturing techniques are pretty expensive even for the US) But I did find a new SU-37, which is a knock off of the the US X-31 forward swept wing design. Problem is that it is "fly by wire" and inherently unstable. Would you want to trust a russian computer engineer to put the best components in your plane? fightersite.com geocities.com aeronautics.ru bu.edu (Scroll down to the "Armed Forces" heading... They state what I guessed while first looking at the SU-37. The entire design of the aircraft is wrong when it comes to stealth designs. fightersite.com

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