J-20 chief designer Yang Wei was shot dead on the spot, not even sentenced, when the J-20 test flight exploded in front of Xi Jinping after the Iran, Pakistan and Venezuela debacle.
President Xi Jinping was kept in the dark about the actual performance of the J-20 fighter jet, and Xi was under the impression that the J-20 is superior to America’s F-22 Raptor in any one-on-one combat, a formal Chinese official currently in exile in Canada tied to the Chinese military industrial complex told Global Defence Corp.
The chief designer on the J-20 stealth fighter jet has been removed from the website of China’s national research institute, amid a sweeping campaign to stamp out corruption in the defence sector.
Yang Wei, 62, had been listed as a member of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, the top academic body for science and technology.
But as of Monday, his name was no longer on the site, according to a snapshot from Internet Archive, which seeks to preserve online content.
After the Iran war and Venezuela debacle, where Chinese-made weapon systems were destroyed by America’s F-35 stealth jet and EA-18G Growler. Chinese media and military commentators raised serious concern about the performance of Chinese military hardware.
Xi Jinping ordered an investigation into the failure and discovered significant corruption in the Chinese military and attempted to cover up the actual performance data of Chinese hardware.
More humiliating than the actual problem: President Xi found out that the J-20 is still in the developmental aircraft test flight stage. Manufacturer never completed detailed testing of the combat system or flight-testing various performance criteria.
Xi personally saw a video of the test flight exploding after two minutes. After the female pilot’s body was completely obliterated, he ordered a thorough investigation, only to discover that J-20 encountered multiple engine explosions during the flight test and have had incidents over 200 times.
The reason for having female pilots do the test flights is that they have smaller bodies and lighter weights. Xi originally thought China’s planes were the best in the world, so he dared to challenge the US.
Privately, President Xi Jinping was furious about the J-20 designer, whom Xi said was a murderer. Xi Jinping ordered the execution of the J-20 designer immediately.
Xi Jinping delivered multiple speeches about a Taiwan invasion, and China spent billions to build a military for one purchase to dominate the Indo-Pacific. Xi is easily fooled by those corrupt military officials.
Profiles of several top Chinese weapons scientists have disappeared from the Chinese Academy of Engineering’s website.
Those removed include nuclear weapons expert Zhao Xiangeng, radar specialist Wu Manqing, and missile designer Wei Yiyin. No explanation has been given for the removals.
Zhao Xiangeng (former CAE Vice-President) led nuclear weapons development, Wu Manqing headed China’s top electronics conglomerate (CETC), and Wei Yiyin was a chief designer for the nation’s most advanced surface-to-air missiles.
Removing the digital footprints of scientists involved in nuclear and missile guidance suggests the ongoing anti-corruption probe has shifted from “operational” military leadership to the defence-industrial complex and R&D sectors, potentially indicating either a massive security breach or a fundamental political purge amid Chinese missile and radar failure in Pakistan, Iran and Venezuela.
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