: M" ^" m/ \+ o) Q" }China stealth fighter 'copied parts from downed US jet'0 z/ d9 B$ e% q# E7 ~$ p. O
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The technology behind China's J-20 stealth fighter may have come from a US plane shot down during the Kosovo war, Balkan military sources say. " U2 J8 ]( I' V: ~0 ?1 E5 ~1 b9 ~- h# H5 L0 G) a
Adm Davor Domazet-Loso, Croatia's military chief of staff at the time, claims Chinese agents took parts of a downed F-117 stealth jet in 1999.* A) ^( c* }9 r' l1 y+ ^8 I
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The F-117 had been shot down by a Serbian anti-aircraft missile during a Nato bombing raid. * [0 f; k# J" }7 R. Q5 ?( U' ]6 l# q' A6 W
China's J-20 stealth fighter had its first test flight earlier this month.* K3 R2 {3 O1 r3 u1 k
+ L5 [, _- a( z1 w' n# s3 `Currently, the United States is the only nation with a fully operational stealth plane. 6 b: Z, }6 z3 @+ }
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