Boeing unveils updated F/A-XX sixth-gen fighter concept

Sure that the Chinese have all the Boeing designs before hand for their "peaceful" rise.

The Boeing concept also features canards, which is somewhat of a surprise because the motion of those forward mounted control surfaces is generally assumed to compromise a stealth aircraft's frontal radar cross-section. But the lack of vertical tail surfaces suggests the aircraft would be optimized for all-aspect broadband stealth, which would be needed for operations in the most challenging anti-access/area denial environments.

Also of note in the manned version of the company's F/A-XX concept is the placement of the cockpit-rearward visibility appears to be restricted without the aid of a sensor apparatus similar to the F-35's distributed aperture system of six infrared cameras.

The Boeing F/A-XX concept is a response to a USN request for information (RFI) from April 2012 soliciting data for a replacement for the service's Boeing F/A-18E/F Super Hornet and EA-18G Growler fleets in the 2030s. The Super Hornet fleet is expected to start reaching the end of the jet's 9000h useful lifespan during that time period.

"The intent of this research is to solicit industry inputs on candidate solutions for CVN [nuclear-powered aircraft carrier] based aircraft to provide air supremacy with a multi-role strike capability in an anti-access/area denied (A2AD) operational environment," the navy RFI stated. "Primary missions include, but are not limited to, air warfare (AW), strike warfare (STW), surface warfare (SUW), and close air support (CAS)."

Navy leaders had said at the time that they expect any new F/A-XX design to have greatly increased range and offer far superior kinematic performance compared to existing tactical aircraft.

Peoples opperession Army and Chinese Communist fight back hacking claims

Communist Party of China and Peoples Oppression Army supply FN-6 MANPAD of the Free Syria Army

One one side Communist Party of China and Peoples Oppression Army support Bashar Al-Assad, on another side Communist Party of China and Peoples Oppression Army supply Free Syrian Army with MANPADS ;)  Strange power China

China likes to play both sides for profit. Chinese external agency Ministry of State Security has become a bidder in the global arms black market.

Chinese Peoples Oppression Army cyber hacking attacks

Technology terrorism from Peoples liberation Army and Communist party of China

IDEX 2013 Chinese weapons

Chinese communist party stirs up rows to build support at home

China has a “deeply ingrained” need to spar with Japan and other Asian neighbors over territory, because the ruling Communist Party uses the disputes to maintain strong domestic support, Prime Minister Shinzo Abe said in an interview.

Clashes with neighbors, notably Japan, play to popular opinion, Abe said, given a Chinese education system that emphasizes patriotism and “anti-Japanese sentiment.”
Abe’s theory on the entrenched motivation behind China’s recent naval aggression helps explain why he has spent more effort trying to counter the Chinese than make peace with them: He thinks the fierce dispute with China over the Japan-held Senkaku Islands in the East China Sea isn’t going away anytime soon.
Abe spoke about China in what aides described as unusually detailed terms, laying out challenges that Chinese leaders might face if other parts of Asia, unnerved by Beijing’s maritime expansionism, decide to reduce trade and other economic ties. China’s government would be hurt by such moves, Abe said, because without economic growth, it “will not be able to control the 1.3 billion people . . . under the one-party rule.”


Abe also laid out his plans for deterrence, which include boosting military spending and strengthening ties with Thailand, Vietnam, Indonesia and other nations that share concerns about Beijing. Abe, who is to meet Friday with President Barack Obama in Washington, said the U.S. presence in Asia is “critical” to deter China from taking territory controlled by other countries.
His comments came in an interview Saturday with The Washington Post, which The Post was granted on condition that the article not be published until Abe was departing for Washington.
In recent years, China has played an increasingly boisterous role in the South China Sea, claiming a massive sphere of territory that includes some of the world’s most trafficked shipping lanes and overlaps with claims of a half-dozen other countries. For Japan, the dispute with China focuses on the remote Senkakus in the East China Sea, islets China calls the Diaoyu. Tensions heated up in September after the central government purchased three of the islets after previously renting them, thereby nationalizing the whole chain.
“What is important first and foremost,” Abe said, “is to make (China) realize that they would not be able to change the rules or take away somebody’s territorial water or territory by coercion or intimidation.”

Abe’s assessment of China sounds like a version of the one that experts in Beijing give of Japan, which they say has shifted to the right on foreign policy and security issues in a bid to recover clout and pride lost during two decades of economic stagnation. Abe’s criticism of Chinese education is also notable because, during his first stint as prime minister six years ago, he revised a law to encourage a more patriotic curriculum in Japan’s classrooms.
Abe became prime minister for a second time in December, after making a string of far-right campaign pledges to revise the pacifist Constitution and loosen certain restrictions on the armed forces. He also promised to be tougher on China than the previous government of the moderate Democratic Party of Japan.
But two months into his term, Abe looks more like a pragmatist than a strident nationalist, focusing mainly on a new, and so far successful, economic policy to weaken the yen and spur inflation. His latest popularity rating is 71 percent, according to the Yomiuri newspaper, a stunning mark in a nation that has cycled through six consecutive one-year leaders.
“I have succeeded already in changing the general mood and atmosphere that was prevalent in Japan,” Abe said.

The question is whether Abe will change course and begin pushing for his controversial rightwing hobbyhorses after the July Upper House election, which could help his Liberal Democratic Party build an overwhelming majority and leave Abe emboldened.
One concern is that Abe may try to water down earlier government apologies for atrocities committed by Japan during the war. Abe, in the interview, said he would someday like to make a “future-oriented” statement aimed at Japan’s neighbors, but he did not elaborate on what its message would be.
Beijing has responded to Japan’s nationalization of the Senkakus by sending surveillance ships and aircraft into Japanese territory, drawing Japan into a risky showdown in which the neighbors chase each other around the waters and airspace around the uninhabited rocky outcroppings. Any armed conflict could draw in the U.S., which is treaty-bound to protect Japan.
While historical animosities are at the root of Japan’s territorial dispute with China, the maritime conflict is relatively new. During the interview, Abe portrayed China’s actions as part of a 35-year shift that began when the Communist Party opened its once-controlled economy. China’s government has since had to abandon the hope of nationwide economic equality — “one of its pillars of legitimacy,” Abe said — forcing it to create “some different pillars,” including rapid economic growth and patriotism.

“What is unfortunate, however,” Abe added, “is that in the case of China, teaching patriotism (is equivalent to) teaching anti-Japanese sentiment. In other words, their education policy of teaching patriotism has become even more pronounced as they started the reform and opening policy.”
Abe said China’s tactics at sea are yielding “strong support” domestically. Those tactics, some analysts say, also could prove financially lucrative if China gains control of shipping lanes and access to rich fishing territory, and extracts hydrocarbon reserves.
But Abe warned China’s sparring with its neighbors could backfire, potentially undermining trade partnerships and causing skittishness among foreign investors.
“Such behavior is going to have an effect on their economic activity at the end of the day,” he said, “because it will lead to losing the confidence of the international community, which will result in less investments in China. I believe it is fully possible to have China (change its) policy once they gain that recognition.”

China copies and reverse engineers Israel's Harpy UAV

Back in 2005, under pressure from the US, IAI returned the Chinese Harpy UAV without performing any upgrades.

http://www.defenseindustrydaily.com/a-harpy-compromise-0612/

PLA seems to have Shanzhai-ed the Harpy UAV

The actual IAI Harpy

BBC reporter detained investigating China's military secretive branch of Hacking

The Chinese want to know everything about others but do not want others to know anything about them.Selfish????

In a drab Shanghai office block, Unit 61398, China’s cyber rats

http://intelreport.mandiant.com/Mandiant_APT1_Report.pdf 

New found wealth has got a lot of confidence to Communist Party of China. They officially lie and deny all these " allegations"

Chinese communist Party closes its own citizens from free information flow over the internet but uses it for hacking others networks.

Mandiant claims Unit 61398:

• Employs hundreds, perhaps thousands of personnel
• Requires personnel trained in computer security and computer network operations
• Requires personnel proficient in the English language
• Has large-scale infrastructure and facilities in the Pudong New Area of Shanghai
• Was the beneficiary of special fibre optic communication infrastructure provided by state-owned enterprise China Telecom in the name of national defence.

This 12-story building on the outskirts of Shanghai is the headquarters of Unit 61398 of the People’s Liberation Army. China’s defense ministry has denied that it is responsible for initiating digital attacks

 

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An explosive security report has pinned the majority of China-based attacks against the US to an army of hackers working for the People's Liberation Army out of a nondescript building on the outskirts of Shanghai. The report, by security firm Mandian, claims P.L.A Unit 61398 operates out of the complex and is responsible for a deluge of hacking traffic originating in and around it.Members of an infamous group known in most instances as Comment Crew or Shanghai Group were allegedly tracked to the P.L.A unit and the building.
It said public accounts of data breaches against US security firms, critical infrastructure, and industrial control system and SCADA operators to a persistent and government-backed hacking outfit operating out of the white Shanghai apartment block. "We believe that organisations in all industries related to China’s strategic priorities are potential targets of APT1’s (the group) comprehensive cyber espionage campaign," ther report stated. "While we have certainly seen the group target some industries more heavily than others, our observations confirm that APT1 has targeted at least four of the seven strategic emerging industries that China identified in its 12th Five Year Plan."
Mandiant researchers correlated data IP addresses, toolsets and social engineering information to pin the attacks to the hacking group. Beijing deniedthe accusations to the New York Times, and reiterated its affirmation that it is not involved in hacking which it considers illegal.
Chinese hackers have left a trail of victims including SCADA software outfits Telvent and Digital Bond, and security firm Alient Vault which had links to sensitive information on the US' defensive preparedness against hacking, according to the report.Hackers were also involved in the Shady Rathacking campaign which was billed as a massive global espionage attack that hit some 75 organisations, the report said. APT1 is one of scores of such collectives researchers say operate out of China at the behest of Beijing. It started operating and first came to the public light in 2006 when Symantec's Japan office described a host which was operated by a hacker known as Ugly Gorilla, who was tracked in the research.
"APT1 has a well-defined attack methodology, honed over years and designed to steal massive quantities of intellectual property. They begin with aggressive spear phishing, proceed to deploy custom digital weapons, and end by exporting compressed bundles of files to China – before beginning the cycle again," the report stated.They employ good English — with acceptable slang — in their socially engineered emails. They have evolved their digital weapons for more than seven years, resulting in continual upgrades as part of their own software release cycle. Their ability to adapt to their environment and spread across systems makes them effective in enterprise environments with trust relationships."
APT1 typically established a foothold in organisations via a well-written spear phishing attempt containing malicious pdf files within a compressed zip. It also used custom backdoors, thought to be previously unknown, of which 42 families were detailed by Mandiant."We usually detect multiple families of APT1 backdoors scattered around a victim network when APT1 has been present for more than a few weeks," the report said. The group's average infiltration lasted 356 days, with the longest stretching to four years and 10 months. The most amount of data stolen from a single organisation was 6.5 terabytes, extracted over 10 months.
The group was also unique in that it utilised unique attack vectors including GETMAIL which helped to steal email. Once the attackers compromised a network they were difficult to detect, the report said, because they connected to shared resources and could execute commands on other systems using Microsoft's psexec tool or Windows Task Scheduler."These actions are hard to detect because legitimate system administrators also use these techniques to perform actions around the network."

Tada...Chinese copied version of C-17 Globemaster is here

Successfully first test flight for the new Chinese large military transport aircraft Xian Y-20

Cnrl+C  = C-17 Globemaster
Cnrl+V  = Xian Y-20

Check the landing gear, tail and other aircraft fuselage design minus the nose
 

 

China on Saturday, January 26, 2013, conducted a successful test flight of its new domestically made large military transport aircraft Y-20. The plane took off at around 2:00pm from an airport in Yanliang, northwest China's Shaanxi Province, according to CCTV News.

As a large and multi-role transport aircraft, the Y-20 can carry out long-range transportation missions even under complicated weather conditions. The Y-20 was developed by Xi’an Aircraft Industry, a subsidiary of China’s leading military aircraft maker, the Aviation Industry Corporation of China.

The successful test flight is a significant boost to China’s capabilities in national defense, rescue and relief work, and humanitarian aid. Reports say more tests are planned.

The Y-20 program is part of an effort to develop an indigenous long-range jet-powered heavy transport aircraft, a top priority in China's "Medium- and Long-Term National Science and Technology Development Program (2006-20)" (MLP).

Earlier reports said it's able to accommodate most large PLA combat and support vehicles, including the Type 99 series tanks, with a capacity to carry up to 66 tons of goods. 

Satellites Spot China’s Mysterious New Warplane - Y 20 ?

Y-20 is almost the same as Boeing-made C-17, blueprints of which China obtained several years ago through a spy working for the Chicago-based plane manufacturer.

The Y-20 at Yanliang on Jan. 1. Photo: GeoEye GeoEye 1

Y-20 at Yanliang on Dec. 25. Photo: GeoEye IKONOS

Reverse Engineering and copying at its best. Why don't they copy democracy from other countries

Chinese KLJ-3 pulse Doppler fire control radar copied from Israeli technologies for "peaceful" rise

Is the Pakistani Air Force using Israeli technology in JF-17 radar - KLJ-7 airborne pulse Doppler radar knowingly ? 

Then it is Haram as per the jihadi curriculum published for ideological education by the Pakistan Army and the notorious ISI 

Chinese KLJ-3 pulse Doppler fire control radar

The first step in the reverse engineering process is to import a couple of kits and then copy them part by part to final assembly.

Recently, Russian media reports that the Chinese J-10 fighter uses NIIR Phazotron Company’s Zhuk Zhemchoug airborne fire control radar. In fact, PLA Air force J-10 is equipped domestic KLJ-3 pulse Doppler fire control radar.

KLJ-3 radar is indeed the result of the introduction of foreign technology, but it is not from Russia, but Israel.

In 1986, J-10 fighter program started. When the Chinese Air Force dispatched pilots go to France to fly Mirage 2000 for evaluation, the Chinese pilots were impressed with Mirage-2000′s avionics and advanced cockpit display system. After the test in France, Pilot Ge Wenyong bluntly said that if counterpart Mirage 2000 pilots do not make mistakes, PLA Air Force J-7 and J-8 fighters have no chance of winning. But Chinese electronics industry was weak at 1980s, and it is difficult to meet the development requirements of the new combat aircraft. In this case, the Heads of Chinese military has determined to actively introduce advanced foreign technology, and push the the development of Chinese avionics industry.

In later 1980s, China began aviation technical cooperation with Israel, including the a full set of LAVI fighter avionics systems. LAVI’s original EL/M-2035 multifunction pulse Doppler fire control radar, which uses a phase parameters transmitter and multi-channel receiver, programmable signal processing system, look-down capacity as 46 km detection range. Its air-to-air modes include RWS (range-while-search), TWS (Track-While-Scan), dogfight, single target tracking; the air-to-ground modes include ranging, real beam mapping and Doppler beam sharpening. The radar has weights of 138 kg. However when the LAVI project ended, the development of EL/M-2035 was also cancelled.

Later, Israel improved EL/M-2035 improvements into EL/M-2032, which was displayed for the first time at the 1987 Paris Air Show. EL/M-2032 in aerial target designation mode has the maximum search distance to reach 150 km; in the air-to-sea mode detection range over 300 km. There have been reports that the Israeli Air Force are not satisfied with F-16I fighter AN/APG-68V-9 radar’s performance and hoped to replace by EL/M-2032 radar, but the United States refused. This also reflects high- performance EL/M-2032, rising as a threat to the U.S. radar.

The introduction of the LAVI aviation electronic systems in China, was known as the 873 avionics integrated system based on 1553B data bus, which was officially launched in 1989, began to conduct test flights in 1993. Other sub-systems including airborne radar, inertial navigation, mission computer display management sub-systems, air data computers, plug-in management system. The 873 project has laid a solid foundation for J-10 to reach full operational capability and greatly raise the R&D Level of Chinese aviation industry.

China imported a multi-Ministry EL/M-2032-radar airborne radar, on which China develops KLJ-3 radar. KLJ-3 uses a double mode grid controlled TWT transmitter, so that the radar is the equivalent of two transmitters, greatly improve the performance of the radar. KLJ-3 works by low operating ratio in the low PRF mode, but also work in high work than high PRF mode. It means KLJ-3 features with real multifunction performance.

The real specifications of KLJ-3 radar are still unknown, but we can deduce its performance by KLJ-7 radar. Pakistan Air Force JF-17 is equipped with KLJ-7 airborne pulse Doppler radar with maximum detection range of 130 km, TWS mode can simultaneously track 10 targets and simultaneously guided two SD-10A active radar-guided air-to-air missile attack two biggest threats. KLJ-7 also has ground moving target indication, synthetic aperture imaging and other advanced work mode, with a strong ground attack capability. KLJ-7 antenna aperture and power supply capacity is lower than the J-10′s KLJ-3, so you can imagine KLJ-3 has better tactical and technical indicators.
China started airborne radar cooperation with Russia at the beginning of 1990s. In addition to NO01E, NO01VE radar for supporting the Su-27SK, Su-30MKK fleets, China also imported some Russian radars including ZHUK Series radar and PERO passive phased array antenna.

Chinese J-8IIM fighter is the first one equipped with Russian ZHUK-8-2 radar. After the disintegration of the former Soviet Union, the development of ZHUK radar was not quite smoothly, and Russian Air Force did not use it. The ultimate success of ZHUK-M-type radar developed in 2002 ultimately is equipped with the Russian MiG-29SMT fighter and the Indian Navy’s MiG-29KUB fighter.

“Zhemchoug” radar is a light version of ZHUK-M radar with performance decreased. “Zhemchoug” radar actually was later than the time of the production of F-10 fighter. Chinese J-10 airborne radar is also different with “Zhemchoug” IFF antenna design, therefore J-10 has no relation with Russia “Zhemchoug” radar.

Through the combination of technology introduction and self-development, Chinese airborne radar has made a breakthrough in the beginning of 2000s, making significant progress in the field of antenna precision manufacturing and transmitter power density, brings a strong impetus to Chinese radar tactical and technical indicators. Chinese-made radar may learn some from Russian radar technology, but the Chinese fighter almost has no possibility of directly using Russian radar. Besides, China is also developing airborne active phased array radar.

China's self-developed third-generation ejection seats put into service

By the end of World War II, Germany pioneered the use of ejection seats as the rescue tools for military pilots. The ejection technology was first introduced to the military airplanes in the middle of the last century, and has gone through four stages of development so far.

The first-generation ejection seat: the seats at this stage are ballistic, which were mainly used to separate pilots in an emergency from airplanes flying at a high speed. Examples included the seats on the British MK1, MK5, and the Soviet Union MiG-15, MiG-17.

The second-generation ejection seat: the seats at this stage are rocket-powered, characterized by the use of rocket for the second order propulsion. After propelled out of the cabin by the first order propulsion, the seat/occupant system would go even higher with the propulsion from the rocket, providing an approach to the ejection escape at zero height - zero speed, allowing ejection at a higher speed of 1,100 kilometers per hour.

The third-generation ejection seat: it is a polymorphic stage of development, characterized by the use of velocity sensors (electronic/mechanical) allowing the escape procedures to execute different modes in response to the flying speed at the time of emergency ejection. Most of the planes in service overseas are equipped with the third-generation seats.

The fourth-generation ejection seat: its main feature is to use the key technologies of controllable thrust and flight control to exercise control over the attitude after the escape of seat/occupant system.

China’s self-developed third-generation ejection seats have been put into service. While being equipped with electronic and mechanical controllers for control of polymorphic procedures, it is able to determine delays based on the speed and height of ejection escape, and control the timing of ejecting the escape parachute and separating the seat from the occupant, thereby improving the probability of survival in the event of low altitude, low and middle speed and adverse attitude. Research on the next-generation ejection technologies is ongoing.

100-bird PLAAF drill....who is China going to war with?

Color coding seems perfect. The blue color aircraft taxiing over the runway seems to be the AWACS

Air Base aircraft parking and traffic management systems seems to be very advanced and sophisticated

AWACS Tail number 30672

Several F-16 engines stolen from Israeli base

Somebody in the Middle Kingdom wants these engines desperately since the Russian engines are getting harder to copy.  I would speculate that these would go into the J - 10s 

The Malaysians also have pulled off this earlier

For a second year, American-built fighter jet engines have been stolen from an Israeli air base.
Reports out of Israel on Thursday say that several F-16 engines have been stolen from a base in a central part of the country. Israel Defense Forces officials suspect the engines were stolen with inside help, though by whom and for what purpose they do not know. The IDF speculates the engines may have been stolen to be sold for scrap.


In June 2011, the IDF reported the loss of eight F-15 and F-16 fighter engines from a base at Tel Nof near Jerusalem. Officials played down the loss saying the engines were old or retired and likely stolen for scrap. They said that some countries would see value in having them and taking them apart.


They’re still more modern than anything in the Iranian air force inventory, and they would even be helpful to China in their jet engine development. The engines would each weigh more than 3,700 pounds.

John Pike, director of GlobalSecurity​.org, an Alexandria, Va., defense and intelligence think tank, said at the time that even old F-15 and F-16 engines were “better than anything the communist Chinese have.”

The engines, which could be Pratt & Whitney or GE, have “superior” thrust-to-weight ratio and better fuel consumption than anything in the Chinese air force, he said.Pentagon officials last year offered no comment on the thefts but referred questions to the Israelis.

History has shown it’s not impossible to steal jet engines.
In two cases, investigative officials found the thieves had inside help. In 2009, two F-5 engines were stolen from an airbase in Malaysia, tracked to Argentina and ultimately located in Uruguay. A Malaysian air force sergeant was charged along with a businessman with stealing the engines.
In 1989, two U.S. Air Force security policemen were charged in connection with the theft of three F-16 engines from Hill Air Force Base, Utah. Those engines were recovered.

Isreali press blames "Bedouins driving SUVs"

http://www.jta.org/news/article/2012/12/07/3113931/f-16-engines-appear-stolen-from-idf-base