China is building an advanced combat jet that may rival within eight years Lockheed Martin Corp’s F-22 Raptor, the premier U.S. fighter, a U.S. intelligence official said. Reuters reports, the expected deployment is years ahead of what the Pentagon thought the date would be. Secretary of Defense Robert Gates said last year it would be 2025 before China would have that capability –Now the the estimate is 2018. The F-22 blends speed, super-agility, stealth and sensor fusion into a single package

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