J-20 5th Gen Fighter Thread IV (Closed to posting)
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It that's the case, I doubt it's J-20 related. Probably J-10 related. Considering we had a comprehensive documentary on the development of , but not on J-10. For a similar special on J-20, we need to wait until 5 years after commission of J-20, at the earliest.
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I doubt it's comprehensive. I expect a lot of hype and patriotic chest thumping.
I hope you are right young man, we have both been predicting chick #003 for some time now, I'd hate to see our collective reputations tarnished by inaccuracy, and I concur completely, the new Regime may have been holding some of these fun toys in reserve to have a fully furnished brochure to role out with their debut???????? brat
Actually, that's not what I feel from past documentaries about Chinese Military, fan videos sometimes have that feel, but not from CCTV, not their style. is about DF-11, New IFVs, Type-99, J-10, JH-7, KJ-2000 is actually very modest. Lots of patriotic emotional stuff, but I saw no hype and chest thumping and it constantly reminds viewer that China is still way behind US. It instead focus sacrifices made by researches, workers and testers etc. (For example the chief production engineering for J-10 also died from over exhaustion soon after its first flight, similar to Luo Yang from J-15 program. However, due to secrecy of J-10 back then it's not revealed until this documentary.) Who know what details will get revealed from J-20 program.
Also the is fairly comprehensive. I would compare it to from discovery channel. Much better than the stuff we air today like "".
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That's what I meant when I said hype and patriotic chest thumping. (You can disagree with the characterization). Some Chinese military documentaries give some good information on development history of new weapons and platforms, but rarely do we get any actually solid information on capabilities (of course, most Western military documentaries are hardly better, and for good reason). Others, especially weapons and platforms that haven't been in production and operation for a few years, are no more than CCTV propaganda pieces. To put it short, I suspect whatever they're filming is more of the latter.
EDIT: That said, it would be interesting if they released some official stats on this thing.
The CCTV Special to end all specials.
"...Hello and welcome to our program. Today, the J-20. A 5th generation, dedicated air-superiority, stealth fighter, the J-20's specifications are, Length: ____________m ..."
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I do have a bad feeling this means we won't see the 2003 quite just yet.
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