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Perfect systems don't need groundings...

Funny part is that he claims to military intelligence, while being semi-literate at best. Kind of outlier compared to intelligence people I meat over the years. You mean like F-35? How many times has it been grounded due to unsolved design issues so far?

Behead all who insult the Flying Hedgehog!

Then they must have built their own version, because Russian and Polish ones certainly don't use wood.

That's a meme coming from people mistaking it for Po-2 which actually was wood and canvas, but An-2 is full metal construction.

An-2 is not made of wood, it has stressed metal skin. The avoiding radar is done by flying low and slow, in Korea this is possible due to mountainous terrain.

Just a funny aircraft related picture guys, no need for yet another multi-page dick measuring contest.

Yeah, Israelis sold the Chinese Lavi tech under the table when it became clear that Americans won't fund their competitor to F-16. Some time later they also sold them AWACS tech.

Gripens use American engines that are produced under licence, one of the conditions for licence is that USA can veto any sale.

Orbits can be changed, every surveillance satellite has thrusters with limited amount of fuel for orbit correction, however getting permission usual means multi-department bureaucratic slog. I heard from the guy who used to be in the intelligence that the fastest they ever got permission was...

CL-415 is out of production, while CL-515 is ''expected to enter production by the middle of the decade''. Right now there is program to establish production, depending on sufficient interest. Right now they have multiple inquiries of intent, but no binding orders. It is only when they have...

It's out of production though and it's unclear when it will be restarted

Amphibians still have their niche and Catalina is such a versatile design, give it a modern (in production) engine and up to date electronics, it would be popular in island transport and firefighting, I reckon militaries will turn their nose on the plane until a dire need to fill a role arises...

It's unlikely to have been YF-23 though, the Chinese mass hacker breaches of networks of defense industry contractors started in the late 90s, YF-23 data has been air gapped by then, the data they stole came from F-22 and F-35, possibly also YF-32.

You are mistaking it for IAI Lavi, whose design the Greatest Ally sold to China, where it served as basis for J-10.

YF-23 was much better looking aircraft than YF-22. Now while YF-35 is nothing special in looks department, at least it is not YF-32.

Ukrainians never used them, so they don't have trained pilots and maintenance crews.

And Air Defense worked wonders in suppressing air attacks, allowing the Serb army to push KLA out of Kosovo for only light casualties. SEAD is also supposed to suppress enemy defences by attritting them, a mission which USAF performed poorly, but fortunately they did not encounter any modern AA...

And how many SAM launchers were destroyed compared to SEAD missions flown? SAMs got kills (2 manned, 30+ UAV) , SEAD did not, USAF also completely failed to seriously damage Serbian army, it was only attacks on civilian infrastructure and USA pulling some of it's demands that got Serbs back into...

That works well if you are fighting Middle East goat herders, if you are fighting peer or near-peer enemy that might not work as the enemy might use GPS jamming.