Prof. Prodyut Das 2

  A quick first assessment of the Chinese Wonder jets  27/12/24                                Prof. Prodyut Das Iss.2 Dated 28/12/24 (updates in colour.)  Iss.3/4/5.    29/12/24. There was much chirping and twittering in Indian dovecotes at the release on 26/12/24 of pictures purporting to be not just one but two Chinese stealth aircraft accompanied by much “and the widows of Ashur are loud in their wails/and Idols are broke in the temples of Baael”. Actually the Chinese aircraft, unless the pictures released are some kind of elaborate fake, are quite modest. If they are fakes then my congratulations to the poster; the last time the Chinese put out pictures of a “futuristic” fighter it looked like a Swiss Army Knife. These look sensible. There is nothing remarkable about the Chinese aircraft unless it is colonial surprise of the sort “How could the bloody Chinks do it?”. The ai...