China's new toy - the Jian-10

The Christian Science Monitor has a story about a new Chinese fighter called the Jian-10.

They were helped by the Israelis and appears to have features similar to the F-16, The Euro Fighter, Russian planes and French planes.

I don't know what generation of jet aircraft they think it is (F-35 & F-22 are fifth generation, F-14, 15, 16, 18 are fourth generation, F-4, A-6 are third, F-104, 105, 106 are second and F-86 is first generation for reference), or if the plane is has any stealth abilities. That is not meant to mock the plane, I just don't know and looking from the small pictures I've seen (actually the same picture in different articles), it looks like it a lot of sharp angles that radar can get a return off of.

I've read about this plane a week ago or so on Strategy Page (can't find the article) but linking to CSM since the information isn't very different from the earlier story.

Yes we need the F-22 and F-35 (maybe more F-35 then F-22) because we need to make sure we have either the best planes or at least others do not have better planes then we do.

(hat tip Lucianne, check out the comments by visitors to that site about what they think about the Jian-10)

Have a good day.