China Wants A Drone That Hunts And Kills F-35s

China is developing a drone hunter killer to combat the growing F-35 threat in Asia-Pacific. Handout.

Asia Times: China unveils an F-35 stealth target drone

While US allies stock their arsenals with the new stealth fighter, China quietly prepares a method to destroy it

On an imagined battlefield, an F-35 takes off from its base, headed for its target … unaware it is being tracked, by a squad of advanced drones with stealth capabilities.

Deftly launched from a bomber, the drone’s purpose is to jam the intruder and destroy it. Small, undetectable, deadly.

In other words, it’s high-tech noon in the sky, and one of them is going to die.

According to military experts, the LJ-I stealth target drone China recently showcased at the 2019 Russian International Aviation and Space Salon (MAKS) in Zhukovsky, will provide the Chinese military with experience encountering stealth fighter jets like the F-35, and possibly more in the future.

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WNU Editor: There is a lot of speculation in the above article on what China is trying to do. But rest assure on one thing. Neutralizing The U.S. Air Force and its stealth fleet is a priority for the Chinese and other U.S. adversaries.

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