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Cold War Cloning:
Russian Knockoff of US F22 And an iPad Clone

February 2, 2010 - Unveiled from a cold war like cloak of secrecy, last week Russia completed a test flight of its newly unveiled advanced fighter plane.  Also reminiscent of 1960's copying and one upsmanship, the new Russian fighter looked remarkably, if not laughably, similar to Lockheed's advanced tactical fighter, the F22 Raptor. Older James Bond films sometimes poked fun at the mysterious "technology transfer" of the era, but times haven't changed in the high technology sector. Mirroring cold war IP rivalries, this week tech writer MG Siegler released a mockup of Google's new lightweight touch computing tablet. It comes on the heels of Apple's iPad launch and clever product placement in the Grammy Awards. Apple's iPhone already faces competition from Google's touch controlled smart phone.