Agree with all the comments
A few points of interest
1. The us have often sent top secret stealth designs over unhospitable terrain... Remember tag board the d21 drone programme from the sixties. Bits of it are on display in china. This was mini sr71 with a single engine, ram and stealth.
2. Occams razor can also work the other way if the engine is reliable then the only other option is spotty teenagers.
3. Tehran was quite capable of adapting f14 etc without china... For all the rhetoric they have done quite well.
Last edited by dagenham; 6th Dec 2011 at 17:23.