OPEN THE DAMN DOORS! PILOT BEEN EATING MEXICAN FOOD AGAIN!.....................
Posted on 01/22/2021 5:31:45 AM PST by Onthebrink
Currently, there are only a few, combat-ready, fifth-generation fighter aircraft models in the world. Two of those are American-built and include Lockheed Martin’s F-22 Raptor, which entered service with the United States Air Force in 2005; and the Lockheed Martin F-35 Lightning II, which entered service in 2015. While the Russian Sukhoi Su-57 finally entered service in December 2020, China’s People’s Liberation Army Air Force (PLAAF) has operated its own fifth-generation fighter since 2017, the J-20.
China’s Stealth Fighter, but with a Flaw
It is the Chengdu J-20 – also known as “Mighty Dragon.” The single-seat, twin-engine, all-weather multi-role combat aircraft was developed as an air superiority fighter with precision strike capability by China’s Chengdu Aerospace Corporation (CAC). It entered service in March 2017 and the first J-20 combat unit was formed the following February.
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What has it done in combat?
With Biden, we should know soon. I expect Taiwan will be on the receiving end.
China is not going to kill the goose that lays the golden egg. Attacking Taiwan would lead to an Asian arms race and they want to avoid that
Looks like Somebody left the door open in that second photo.......LOL!
Nah....the photog just caught the gear doors as they were about to close.
OPEN THE DAMN DOORS! PILOT BEEN EATING MEXICAN FOOD AGAIN!.....................
I recall that the 0bama regime, in a bid to save money (so they could waste it on social programs), decided the F-35 would have one engine and not two.
There already is an asian arms race going on. India, Japan, South Korea and Singapore are all expanding their capabilities. If anything they will want to take Taiwan before there is an asian coalition capable of challenging them even without US support.
That could be. We will see.
From what I can tell, the J-20 is likely not quite all it's cracked up to be. Supposedly the stealth is expected to be primarily significant from from the head on aspect. Side aspect detection at long range is substantial, for example. It ain't no F-22 nor F-35 in terms of overall stealth properties.
Like with all Chinese aircraft, engines are a problem. They are chronically under powered and low reliability. Chinese industry has never been able to indigenously manufacture high end jet engines no matter how many blueprints they've stolen or attempted to reverse engineer. Most of their commercial and military engines are Russian in origin by purchase or licensed manufacturing. Russians did not provide the secret sauce though that they, western nations and Japan have in manufacturing.
China's advantage would be in numbers and not individual capabilities. Their numbers are catching up but is a ways off from being there.
The US is pulling out the stops to field laser defenses of much greater power than is deployed now. This tech is rapidly advancing to achieve a bottomless magazine at long range that costs a few bucks a shot instead of $1MM plus. The Zumwalt class destroyer, the newest flight Arleigh Burke destroyers and the Ford class aircraft carriers have power systems in place to handle the high power lasers needed for robust, long distance defense against aircraft and missiles.
The cartoon fighter.
They don’t like to test. Testing leads to failure and they can’t stand to fail. That’s why they have so many issues.
Stolen design and under powered engines. They tried to buy the GE engine division or a part of it, but were stopped by Trump.
Canards seem to be a common feature in European, Russian, and Chinese fighter plane designs but you almost never see them on US fighters. It’s almost like it’s a doctrinal thing.
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