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"Microsoft's Bing Maps looks like it could be the next major secret-spiller making headlines. The Internet search engine\u2019s satellite-imaging service captured a stealth Russian fighter jet, which was previously thought to be ancient history.\nThe airplane, known as the Mikoyan Project 1.44, was reportedly launched during the fall of the Soviet Union and was thought to be put to bed in 2001. \nSEE ALSO: Bing May Have Revealed Secret U.S. Drone Base\n\nThe jet was purportedly Russia's first attempt at a flyable stealth fighter \u2014 one that was meant to match one of America\u2019s best-kept secrets, the F-22 Raptor. Some speculated that the fighter jet was sent to China to kick-start Beijing's own stealth development program.\n\n\nForeign Policy compared China\u2019s J-20 stealth fighter, revealed in 2010, to the 1.44 (see above). The 1.44 is the larger of the two planes, found just outside Moscow's Zhukovsky airfield, but the jets appear very similar \u2014 though the former is more sophisticated and nearly impossible to track on radar. \nRussian officials have said that they did not provide information about the 1.44 jet to the Chinese, but condeded that the Chinese may have gotten their hands on relevant documents. The only thing that is certain: the 1.44 is (or, until this week, was) on an airfield in Russia. \nOfficials have yet to confirm whether or not the image captured by Bing is the 1.44. Watch the video above to learn more, and let us know what you think in the comments below.\nImage courtesy of Bing Maps\n\n"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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