Tuesday, May 10, 2011

Is China's Stealth Fighter Better Than America's F-22?

F-22s (Boeing)

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.

1 comment:

gwhiteca said...

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.