China’s first fifth-generation aircraft is having a major issue.
“China’s J-20 and J-31 stealth fighters cannot super-cruise, or fly at supersonic speeds like their closest rivals, Lockheed Martin’s F-22 and F-35 stealth planes, without using afterburners.”
China’s first fifth-generation aircraft is having a major issue.
As Dave Majumdar previously covered , China recently declared that its J-20 fighter jet had attained initial operational capability. “China's latest J-20 stealth fighter has been commissioned into the air force's combat service,” China’s Defense Ministry said on February 9. Chinese analysts touted the country’s achievement as breaking the Western stranglehold on stealthy aircraft. "The J-20 will also change the history of the air force in Asia-Pacific region. In the past, only the U.S. and its allies like Japan were capable of arming stealth fighter jets. But now, their monopoly in this region has been broken by China's J-20," Song Zongping, a military expert, was quoted as saying in official media.
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WNU Editor: It is their first generation stealth aircraft.
2 comments:
Engines can be upgraded.
The question remains, is the US and other countries implementing failure points in their blueprints inwhich the Chinese are hacking. Basically encrypting intellectually property....
I would assume engine plans are much more secure then plane plans. Still i would expect F22 planes to be falsified so anything who steals them builds them with major flaws.
I would be fun to falsify plans to watch other people's pilots fall out of the sky.
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