Queen of moeblobs Mio Akiyama has apparently found herself appropriated by Chinese otaku as an image character for their nation’s newly copied stealth plane, the Chengdu J-20.
The similarity is said to be both because of certain mild aesthetic similarities between the two, and because of some tenuous connection between the Akiyama Mio name and the plane.
The fact that plenty of Chinese anime fans love Mio probably helps a great deal as well…
The J-20 proper, part of China’s ongoing military build up:
The plane is thought to be the result of Chinese spies copying American stealth planes, using parts clandestinely retrieved from a stealth plane shot down over Serbia.
It has already been the subject of some original moe anthropomorphisation, in the form of the splendid display of mecha-musume shown below (most of which are apparently not by Chinese artists for some strange reason):
I love how the ignorant gobbled up the propaganda from the media. They ones stupid enough to believe that the Chinese had found any substantial from that crash heap can forget about taking a career in engineering let alone avian science.
PLA’s Strategic Fooyou Agency is at work.
Compliments to the SFAs.. Looks like nobody believes that China actually has the jet.
In order to make a “stealth” fighter, there are only so many shape designs due to constraints on RCS and fluid mechanics.
that’s why T-50, J-20 somewhat resembles F-22.
Just because some of the technology was reverse engineered from a destroyed American stealth fighter doesn’t mean it’s a copy. From what I’ve read about it, it’s superior to the plane it’s analogous to.
It has a few elements of the F-22 but basically its a partly an improvement in OTHER directions actually and half just a PR exercise.
I doubt China will mass produce this plane, it is intended as a showpiece and R&D stepping stone.
I.e. it is vastly inferior to the F-22, but may be as strong as the late-block F-16, if the bugs are ironed out.
At least it should be as good as the Rafale.