Photos of the Day... Meet the Shenyang J-31, China's newest stealth fighter. In case you're wondering why this aircraft looks eerily familiar, it's because it is a blatant rip-off of the U.S. F-22 Raptor and F-35 Lightning II jets (both built by Lockheed Martin). China isn't the first (communist) nation to copy the design of American-made aerospace vehicles though; The Soviet Union's most derivative achievement in its space program is the now-defunct (and demolished... The hangar it was housed in at Kazakhstan's Baikonur Cosmodrome inadvertently collapsed in 2002) Buran space shuttle. In Beijing's defense, though, the oxygen delivery system on the J-31—unlike that aboard the F-22—is most likely working without a hitch. That's good... Besides its general military and wayward fishermen, China needs something else to harass Taiwan, the Philippines and its other Asian neighbors with. Oh and one more thing, having the J-31 as Starscream's vehicle mode (instead of the Raptor) in the live-action Transformers films would've actually been appropriate. The Autobots and U.S. soldiers confronting Decepticons in their disguises as Chinese weaponry in Michael Bay's flicks? Sounds right to me. 'Kay, I'll quit hatin'.
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