Chinese Stealth Fighter Could Rival US's Best: Report -- ABC News
The next generation stealth fighter under development by the Chinese military could rival America's best fighters in speed, stealth and lethality, according to a new private report.
Details on the Chinese J-20 fighter are scant as the project has been developed under extreme secrecy, but an analysis conducted by the conservative Washington D.C.-based defense policy think tank The Jamestown Foundation based on the little publicly available information concluded that the fighter "will be a high performance stealth aircraft, arguably capable of competing in most cardinal performance parameters... with the United States F-22A Raptor, and superior in most if not all cardinal performance parameters against the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter."
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My Comment: Since the end of the Second World War, the skies have always been "owned" by the U.S. Air Force .... is that day coming to an end? While I believe that the F-22 is probably a superior aircraft, trends in China should give one pause on what the future will probably hold.
China has yet to prove that it can build anything that will hold up in combat especially a stealth fighter. When you consider how much time and money has been spent on the Raptor I still can't imagine that the J-20 is anything more than a copy of the shell of an f-22.
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