Is China's J-20 Stealth Fighter Jet A Significant Threat?

 

Zero Hedge/Epoch Times: How Good Is China's J-20 Stealth Fighter Jet? 

How good is China’s most advanced fighter jet, the J-20? The J-20 is a “fifth-generation” combat aircraft, which ostensibly puts it in the same league as the U.S. F-22 and F-35. 

Fifth-generation fighters have certain common characteristics: very low visibility (stealth), the ability to fly at supersonic speeds without using an afterburner (called supercruise), and, most importantly, a highly advanced radar and suite of avionics and onboard computers for “networked data fusion,” enabling situational awareness in the battlespace.  

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Update #1: Newly commissioned J-20 stealth fighters on combat alert (Global Times)  

Update #2: China to start upgrading J-20 fighter engines in bid to close gap with US F-22 (SCMP)  

Update #3: China Boosts J-20 Stealth Fighter Production to Counter U.S. and Japanese F-35s (National Interest)  

WNU Editor: There are short-comings in the J-20. Avionics, stealth, and under-performing engines. 

It has also not been an easy journey to develop the J-20 .... Close calls for China’s J-20 before stealth fighter’s deployment, Avic says (SCMP). 

The PLA is working on its J-20 training program (see video below).