Where Did China Get This F-22 Raptor?

Popular Mechanics Wed, Feb 17 2:02 PM PST 
A sleepy airport in rural China is not where you'd expect to find America's latest and greatest fighter plane. And yet at some point in the last six weeks a F-22 Raptor—or full-sized copy of one—was sighted by commercial imaging satellites parked at Pucheng Neifu Airport in China.  In the images, the fifth generation fighter is clearly parked alongside two rows of what appear to be cropdusting airplanes.  Located at Shaanxi provinece in central China, Pucheng Neifu Airport is not even remotely a military airport. There is no obvious link between it and the People's Liberation Army Air Force (PLAAF). It has the layout of a rural civilian airport found in any country, with a single runway, large ...

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