It's from freaking CCTV .......if you even know what it means
J-20 5th Generation Fighter VII
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I mean what the commentor says is being misquoted and blown out of proportion.
Isn't the J20 expensive? How could Pakistan afford to buy a squadron of them at all even if China was willing to sell them?
PAF aside, once J-20 production ramps up, price per unit gonna come down.
No disrespect to Pakistan but, if the J20 has the same price profile as the F22, for example, then China will need to produce a, technical term here, "a shit ton", of J20's to get the price affordable for Pakistan.
I don’t see why they wouldn’t produce “a shit ton.” The J20 is the biggest modern upgrade that the PLAAF have gotten in quite some time and 6th gen is years away. So the J20 will be the main focal point of the PLAAF for the next 1-2 decades.
We are talking 15-20 years into the future and I don't think J-20 processes had the same mistakes as f-22 which ramped up it's prices.
Isn't the consensus that we should be looking at f35 prices and not f22 when trying to guestimate price for j-20s?
J20 is a twin engine fighter and about 40% larger in size. You need to first modify for that and then again for the lower wage cost in China.
(at which point you may end up at a similar price to the F35 but that's coincidental)
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