J-20 5th Generation Fighter VII
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This was already posted in the PLAAF Breaking News thread.
So Shenyang is only capable of producing 80+ heavy multirole fighters per year? That is a far cry from Lockheed Martin's mile-long production line in Fort Worth, Texas.
If you look around, then yes, this is the IFR probe; there, from the best of my knowledge, is no evidence of a gun port on the top of the aircraft, unless there's a gun port hidden on the opposite side of the cockpit.
Definitely an IFR probe as Chinese designers cannot put an IFR probe behind the cockpit like American planes for KC tankers flying boom refueling method.
Though up to now I have not been able to find the gun port anywhere around the aircraft. I haven't yet seen HD close up photos of the opposite side of the cockpit to confirm a gun port there. There is still a general consensus by Western analysts that the J-20 doesn't carry a gun. I hope its not true, but there is still no solid proof that the J-20 has a gun.
Hot burnt propellant gas from the gun muzzle right in front of the engine air inlet? That is suicidal.
Then why did you ask the question? You seem to have had the answer by yourself before asking.
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