J-20 5th Generation Fighter VII

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by78

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It is one of the parade birds. You can tell because of they put yellow tapes on the plane, which are used to help other aircraft keep track of relative positions during formation flight.

What do you think the protrusion is at the spot where the luneburg lens is usually found? Is it a new type of luneburg lens or is it a camera?

That looks like a new and smaller luneburg lens, if that's what it is.
 

Tyler

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Bigger question is, what percentage of J-20s in operation would the PLAAF actually fly? Like, you're claiming this is 1/3rd to 1/2th (implying 36-54 J-20s in service), but could it be that there's more J-20s that have flown off the production line?

I'd see the parade as an attempt to signal actual numbers of J-20s in service, or at least give the impression of a larger J-20 fleet.
It looks like they have way more J-20 planes right now. Just like they showed you a couple of type 094 subs at the same time. They just want to tease your imagination.
 

lcloo

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How many J20 have they made? Nobody in this forum really know, but use a fuzzy logic thinking, you can guess.

2016 six J20s in one batch
2017 ? batch & ? aircraft
2018 ? batch & ? aircraft
2019 ? batch & ? aircraft
2020 ? batch & ? aircraft
2021 ? batch & ? aircraft

Five and half years since the first batch of 6 J20s were reported.
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siegecrossbow

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How many J20 have they made? Nobody in this forum really know, but use a fuzzy logic thinking, you can guess.

2016 six J20s in one batch
2017 ? batch & ? aircraft
2018 ? batch & ? aircraft
2019 ? batch & ? aircraft
2020 ? batch & ? aircraft
2021 ? batch & ? aircraft

Five and half years since the first batch of 6 J20s were reported.
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Huitong doesn’t add the aircraft to the wall unless the serial has been confirmed via photograph. For instance we’ve counted 10 J-20s in Wuhu via satellite but only 8 are photographed, hence 8 are reported for 9th Brigade.
 

Blitzo

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but you all refered this as the Anshan j-20? then where are those new j-20s?

If something reads wrong, consider re-reading the post and the previous posts to get context.

The post that you quoted from Deino #2384 is not an aircraft from Anshan, but rather from Wuhu (9th brigade), which as we all know are of an earlier batch that was produced with Al-31s.


Nowhere did he say that the J-20 in that picture in that post #2384 was from Anshan.
 

Deino

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but you all refered this as the Anshan j-20? then where are those new j-20s?


I think you missed the point, just a quick check on the number tells you, those images posted with 62x0x numbers are from the 9th Air Brigade ... those from the 1st at Anshan have 61x2x numbers and even if this one is psed, I think it could be one.

J-20A + WS-10C grey - 20210101 xl.jpg
 
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