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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. 0 @5 }/ z b. I' H5 f 6 U/ F; ?2 A+ EAdm 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. ' E6 m+ S) t4 y. j4 J, ^ ^. c6 h; V6 z+ J
The F-117 had been shot down by a Serbian anti-aircraft missile during a Nato bombing raid. ! ]% z5 ^3 Q% t4 D& W+ C) ~& G6 q! K: B. ~
China's J-20 stealth fighter had its first test flight earlier this month. " J: Q, K$ Q9 r" ~9 I u 4 U$ P% t: j v/ t* x4 t0 OCurrently, the United States is the only nation with a fully operational stealth plane. - I# x. a# f1 ]) |