2010年12月22日，成都——中国中部的工业城市，一辆汽车行驶在一座军用机场外的公路上，车内之人堂而皇之地把手机伸出窗外。他的名字无人知晓，当一架黑色涂装的喷气式战斗机滑行在烟雾笼罩的机场上时按下了快门。 译文来源: 原创翻译：龙腾网 http://www.ltaaa.com 翻译：病中乃知 转载请注明出处
新闻链接：http://www.wired.com/dangerroom/2012/04/chinese-bloggers/ 正文翻译: 原创翻译：龙腾网 http://www.ltaaa.com 翻译：病中乃知 转载请注明出处
正文：
On Dec. 22, 2010, someone apparentlypointed a cellphone out of the window of a car driving along a public road outsidethe perimeter of a military airfield in Chengdu,an industrial city in central China.The person holding the phone, whose name has never been revealed, snapped aphoto of a black-painted jet fighter taxiing through fog blanketing theairfield.
2010年12月22日，成都——中国中部的工业城市，一辆汽车行驶在一座军用机场外的公路上，车内之人堂而皇之地把手机伸出窗外。他的名字无人知晓，当一架黑色涂装的喷气式战斗机滑行在烟雾笼罩的机场上时按下了快门。
With his simple act, the photographerappeared to outperform the $80-billion-a-year U.S. spy community, which has theadvantage of a plethora of drones, satellites, hackers and old-fashioned humanspies. The snapshot was the first hard evidence of China’s very first“fifth-generation” stealth fighter, the J-20 — and it seemed to come as asurprise to some Pentagon analysts. “We have been pretty consistent in underestimatingthe delivery and initial operational capability of Chinese technology weaponssystems,” Vice Adm. David Dorsett said.
这位拍客看似简单的举动胜过了美国一年耗资800亿美元的情报网，他们的优势是过剩的无人机、卫星、电脑黑客以及老式间谍。这张快照是中国拥有“第五代”隐形战斗机歼-20的首个确凿证据——五角大楼的分析师对此颇感意外。戴维·多塞特中将说：“我们数十年如一日地低估着中国科技武器系统的交付和初步作战能力。”
In 2009, then-U.S. Secretary of DefenseRobert Gates had predicted that Chinawould “have no fifth-generation aircraft by 2020.” Granted, Gates might havemeant operational fifth-generation aircraft. All the same, the J-20’s appearance years ahead of schedule wasa dramatic demonstration of China’srapidly expanding aerospace prowess. And discovering it was also a signatureachievement by a relatively unknown group of Chinese internet users whose military-technologyfandom is having a profound effect on the most important strategic rivalry ofthe early 21st century.
2009年，时任美国国防部长的罗伯特·盖茨曾预言，中国“在2020年前不可能有第五代隐形战斗机”。或许盖茨指的是可以投入使用的第五代飞机。与此同时，歼20提前数年亮相是中国在航空航天技术快速发展的有利证明。它的被发现也是这样一群不为人知的中国网民取得的成就：他们对军事技术的着迷正对21世纪初最重要的战略竞争产生影响。
The Chinese fanboys, who post rumors,photos and snippets of technical data to a wide range of blogs and forums, are America’s de-facto spies in China, hoovering up information on Beijing’s latest planes, ships, missiles and groundvehicles and making it widely available to U.S. analysts, journalists,military planners and policymakers.
新闻链接：http://www.wired.com/dangerroom/2012/04/chinese-bloggers/ 正文翻译: 原创翻译：龙腾网 http://www.ltaaa.com 翻译：病中乃知 转载请注明出处
正文：
On Dec. 22, 2010, someone apparentlypointed a cellphone out of the window of a car driving along a public road outsidethe perimeter of a military airfield in Chengdu,an industrial city in central China.The person holding the phone, whose name has never been revealed, snapped aphoto of a black-painted jet fighter taxiing through fog blanketing theairfield.
2010年12月22日，成都——中国中部的工业城市，一辆汽车行驶在一座军用机场外的公路上，车内之人堂而皇之地把手机伸出窗外。他的名字无人知晓，当一架黑色涂装的喷气式战斗机滑行在烟雾笼罩的机场上时按下了快门。
With his simple act, the photographerappeared to outperform the $80-billion-a-year U.S. spy community, which has theadvantage of a plethora of drones, satellites, hackers and old-fashioned humanspies. The snapshot was the first hard evidence of China’s very first“fifth-generation” stealth fighter, the J-20 — and it seemed to come as asurprise to some Pentagon analysts. “We have been pretty consistent in underestimatingthe delivery and initial operational capability of Chinese technology weaponssystems,” Vice Adm. David Dorsett said.
这位拍客看似简单的举动胜过了美国一年耗资800亿美元的情报网，他们的优势是过剩的无人机、卫星、电脑黑客以及老式间谍。这张快照是中国拥有“第五代”隐形战斗机歼-20的首个确凿证据——五角大楼的分析师对此颇感意外。戴维·多塞特中将说：“我们数十年如一日地低估着中国科技武器系统的交付和初步作战能力。”
In 2009, then-U.S. Secretary of DefenseRobert Gates had predicted that Chinawould “have no fifth-generation aircraft by 2020.” Granted, Gates might havemeant operational fifth-generation aircraft. All the same, the J-20’s appearance years ahead of schedule wasa dramatic demonstration of China’srapidly expanding aerospace prowess. And discovering it was also a signatureachievement by a relatively unknown group of Chinese internet users whose military-technologyfandom is having a profound effect on the most important strategic rivalry ofthe early 21st century.
2009年，时任美国国防部长的罗伯特·盖茨曾预言，中国“在2020年前不可能有第五代隐形战斗机”。或许盖茨指的是可以投入使用的第五代飞机。与此同时，歼20提前数年亮相是中国在航空航天技术快速发展的有利证明。它的被发现也是这样一群不为人知的中国网民取得的成就：他们对军事技术的着迷正对21世纪初最重要的战略竞争产生影响。
The Chinese fanboys, who post rumors,photos and snippets of technical data to a wide range of blogs and forums, are America’s de-facto spies in China, hoovering up information on Beijing’s latest planes, ships, missiles and groundvehicles and making it widely available to U.S. analysts, journalists,military planners and policymakers.
