My_Soul_to_Squeeze t1_jcsfvuc wrote on March 19, 2023 at 5:10 AM

Reply to comment by chidebunker in China Built a Hypersonic Generator That Could Power Unimaginable Weapons by ethereal3xp

This literally happened with the Foxbat and F-15, but it was the USSR rather than China. It wasn't until a Soviet pilot defected with his jet to Japan that western scientists realized it was a very clunky, basically single use interceptor, not a gen4 air superiority fighter.