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The combat range of both is less than diameter_pacific/2 so they are pretty safe.
The US doesn't have any enemies within range of the Chinese jets and the US won't sell the F22 to anybody near china.
They are both techno-wank projects to make generals feel cool and to keep a few aerospace companies in business. It took a while but we have finally corrupted them to be just like us - and we did the chinese as well!
So they begin to spend $Bn on more and more elaborate weapons systems to challenge a non-existent threat.
Our plan to destroy them is working, it got rid of the USSR, now China, just the USA to go.
You have to be very good at Greek to come up with a word for that particular phobia!
And all the embedded chips in cellphones,m set top boxes and mp3 players are going to support WebM?
Thats going to take a while - the lead time on new DSP families isn't quick.
And how long before their are optimized open source libraries like ffmpeg and x264?
But compared to the previous 'hack' that needed a $50K radio and weeks of post-processing it's pretty good.
Especialyl since it also demonstrates how to target a particular phone - the previous GSM cracks captured all the packets on all the phones in a cell, so it was only much later you worked out which was the phone you were looking for - too late if they moved to a new cell while you were recording.
After correcting for me being short,fat and middle aged I'm an olympic athlete