It’s really, really hard to say from just the airframe.
Now that the USSR is gone, and the files public, we know that the “Concordsky” was totally independently developed from the Concord, and completely different except on the outside.
If they did manage to copy the whole thing, that’s very bad news in any war with the West, because we’re not about beat them on quantity of anything.
I’m actually like 60% sure the reason War Thunder doesn’t have an F-35 in the game is to prevent leaks.
Realistically though china stole everything they needed years ago. The J-35 is an absolute pisstake ripoff.
I mean, they weren’t exactly subtle about it
It’s really, really hard to say from just the airframe.
Now that the USSR is gone, and the files public, we know that the “Concordsky” was totally independently developed from the Concord, and completely different except on the outside.
If they did manage to copy the whole thing, that’s very bad news in any war with the West, because we’re not about beat them on quantity of anything.