China: New Combat Aircraft J-20 Officially On Duty
By Editors, Special Forces - 2017-03-16
China's revolutionary fifth-generation combat aircraft takes off!
Is the J-20 superior to F-22 and F-35?
Is the USA's lead increasingly fading?
Does China now own the full-fledged stealth technology?
J-20 is officially serving the Chinese Air Force
China's new 5th generation J-20 combat aircraft has officially started its service.
The Chinese military confirmed this commissioning of the modern fighter jet last week.
The J-20 Fighter is supposed to bring China on par with America's F-22 and F-35.
Most experts doubt, however, that this will really be the case.
If there is really an open conflict with Taiwan or the USA, the new J-20 class can certainly claim against classic F-16 in certain circumstances (weather / radar).
The fact that the J-20 can actually be against the F-22 or even F-35, is hitherto rather doubted.
How strong is the Chinese J-20 really?
The American F-22 and F-35 are a complete system, integrated into radar capacities, synchronized networks, artificial intelligence, and stealth capabilities.
The question as to whether the Chinese new combat aircraft can actually stand up to the advanced systems of the USAF is therefore somewhat more complex than simply a "faster, stronger, wider".
The J-20 is certainly a significant step for the Chinese Air Force. Globally, the aircraft is regarded as a capable model of the 5th generation.
The Chinese government, however, is very much concerned about the actual performance of its new development.
Apart from some flight demonstrations, basic details of the aircraft class and euphoric press releases, there is little objective information on the actual capabilities of the fighter jet.
The stealth skills, for example, make the consensus of the Western experts more critical.
The J-20 certainly has basic stealth technology, but not at the level of American models.
The radar of the Chinese is not yet as developed as the US.
Therefore, the model has very secure "stealth" characteristics, but should not be a pure stealth fighter.
Is the USA's lead waning more and more?
Moreover, quite a few experts are surprised at the extreme development of the J-20 in a very short time.
Theoretically it is quite possible that China catches up so quickly.
However, whether it is really realistic that a system of such complexity, similar to the F-22 and F-35, is completed in a short period of time and that the official statements on the J-20 actually correspond to fully technical reality is another question.
So far there are 5 first models of the J-20, which are relatively "operational".
Production is slow and laborious for Chinese manufacturers.
Accordingly, it will take some time to know more about the aircraft and its actual abilities will be objectively better assessed.
In the US, however, the dwindling distance between the US military and the Chinese is seen with growing concern.
The fast commissioning of the J-20 will not improve these concerns.
From the Special Forces, a German language publication owned by the Black Harp Media, specializing in the world strategy military "Special Forces News".
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An "interesting mixing" of some faith or perceptive matters with some degrees of objectivity (just peruse the article to read the implied message between the lines)... however, as long as China has not decided to divulge in totality or expose anything spectacular I am afraid that the thick cloud of doubt will linger around for many years to come.
The other question remains, will China "care" to clear all these "clouds of doubt" in particular within the circles of the Western experts and skeptics or how far it agrees to reveal, or does such clearance really serves its objective? For there's no export urgency to come into this equation.
It's of anyone's guess I think and once again, the unfolding time is the most accurate analyst!
Dont worry, the western always like to write article to do self comforting to escape from reality.
But FC-31 v2 need to reveal its spec becos it is an export product. From the level of FC-31, we can know at least the basic level of where J-20 stands. But keep in mind, FC-31 is an export product. So J-20 might be 20-30percent more capable than it.
No, maybe you are trying to be sarcastic.I think he is referring to engine which is not stealth oriented