An F-35 fighter jet of the U.S. Air Self-Defense Force.
In recent years, it seems that the Chinese Communist Party has become a national strategy for its military development by stealing and copying military technology from other countries. The U.S. Naval Research Association posted a picture of a Chinese Communist Party copycat of a U.S. F-35 fighter jet on the 21st, mockingly saying, “Today is National Face Crash Day!” and took stock of the CCP’s various copycat weapons.
On April 21, the U.S. Naval Research Institute (U.S. Naval Institute) tweeted a photo comparing the Chinese Communist Party’s J-31 fighter jet and the U.S. F-35 fighter jet, and teased, “Today is National Look Alike Day! “
The tweet said: “The Chinese military is full of weapons that look like systems developed by other countries, and the Shenyang J-31 is trying to copy the Loma F-35,” and included a link to an October 2015 report by the association, saying that there are more Chinese copycat weapons on the following page.
Today is National Look Alike Day! The Chinese military is full of weapons that look a lot like systems developed by other nations. The Shenyang J-31 is an attempt to copy the Lockheed Martin F-35. More Chinese clone weapons: https://t.co/cHJadkqThJ # nationallookalikeday pic.twitter.com/lRRLZmWoYv
- U.S. Naval Institute (@NavalInstitute) April 20, 2021
According to the report, in recent years, most of the Chinese Communist Party’s advanced weapons have come from copying those of other countries. The report uses several photos for comparison. The Chinese “Sword” drone is similar to the U.S. X-47B drone, and the Chinese L-15 advanced trainer is a copy of the Russian “Yak-130” trainer.
China’s J-15 carrier aircraft is a copy of Russia’s Sukai-33, and China’s Red Arrow-12 anti-tank missile is similar to the U.S. FGM-148, both in appearance and use, which are obviously copycat products.
The report said that the Chinese Communist Party has successfully acquired many valuable technologies and weapons from U.S. allies through behind-the-scenes deals, so the U.S. decided not to export warplanes to foreign countries.
As early as many years ago, a war of words broke out between China and the U.S. over the Chinese Communist Party’s J-20 fighter jet copying the U.S. F-35 fighter jet.
The U.S. side of the F-35 data said that the Chinese military cyber spies by hacking into the U.S. defense contractor Lockheed Martin. Lockheed Martin, and at least six other contractors’ systems.
In 2014, the U.S. arrested two Chinese nationals suspected of stealing F-35 fighter jet engine technology and manufacturing techniques at U.S. factories.
At the time, Strategy Page published an article titled “Intelligence: The Chinese Communist Party Wants It All,” saying, “With the Chinese Communist Party working to obtain detailed information about the F-35 fighter jet You can see why the J-20 is similar to the F-35.”
It has also been noted that as soon as U.S. drones enter the battlefield, the Chinese Communist Party’s airshows immediately bring out drone models, not shying away from the striking resemblance to U.S. drones.
In January 2018, several media outlets reported that an official Communist Party of China Hongdu Aviation propaganda film showed a prototype L15 tested at the China Test and Flight Institute with a new domestically-made aerial guided bomb hanging under the wing, with TL-20/CK-G written on it.
Outsiders noted the TL-20/CK-G was very similar to the USAF’s then newly equipped GBU-53/B second-generation small diameter bomb (SDB-II).
In November 2018, at the Zhuhai Airshow, scandals about Chinese Communist plagiarism and copying from other countries broke out one after another.
The first open day for visitors to the aerospace expo featured a flight demonstration by three of the Communist Party of China Air Force’s latest multirole stealth fighters, the J-20. Russian media and experts have said that the so-called “fifth-generation fighter” of the Chinese Communist Party is a copy of the technology of the United States and Russia. All three J-20s are equipped with Russian AL-31 engines.
The Russian official media also said in a program that the J-20 was built by stealing technology from the United States. Su Bi, a 51-year-old Chinese national who was sentenced to prison in the United States, admitted to conspiring with Chinese military officials to steal U.S. F-35 and F-22 fighter jets, as well as Boeing C-17 military transport aircraft.
In addition to the J-20 scandal, the CR929 passenger jet, a joint venture between Russia and China, was also allegedly stolen from someone else’s design. A Russian design bureau called Atom issued a statement on the first day of the show that their design had been stolen by the Chinese Communist Party.
Maxim Kuzin, general director and chief engineer of the design bureau, said they had presented their design in a tender in Shanghai in 2015, but it was rejected. The Chinese Communist Party plagiarized it.
Japan’s Sankei Shimbun also said at the time that a full-size model of the Rainbow 7, the latest stealth drone from the Chinese Communist Party, was also allegedly copied from the U.S. Navy’s X-47B drone.
Current affairs commentator Lan Shu said that the Chinese Communist Party is trying to prove the legitimacy of its regime by stealing and cheating to get a little technology as a showcase. But it will never succeed, much less surpass it. It will only be laughed at by the international community if it relies on copycats and plagiarism to make a show of itself. One thing must be remembered: “copycat” is never as good as the original.
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