On 4/23/2011 12:16 AM, wrote:
"We heard a little chatter about this earlier in the month;
apparently China is test flying its own vertical/short take-off
and landing fighter jet dubbed the J-18. According to my
old colleague Wendell Minnick at Defense News, the jet is
similar in appearance to Russia’s Su-33 carrier based
evolution of Sukhoi’s famous Su-27 line."

See:

http://defensetech.org/2011/04/22/ch...vstol-fighter/

and

http://www.defensenews.com/story.php...65&c=ASI&s=AIR

Looking at it with it's slab sides, it would be a shooting
gallery anywhere they used it. It would light up the skies for
radar and it's heat signature would be a beacon for every IR
missile both ground and air.

They made a really poor copy of the F-35.