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This is in the same progress as J-20 last year.
J-20... The New Generation Fighter III
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This is in the same progress as J-20 last year.
January of next year? I really feel sorry for the SAC wall climbers since the weather is gonna be freeeeezing.
Pshh, I prefer the winter to the summer anyways XD. Besides, flight conditions should be better during the winter.
Ah, that might make some sense. Maybe their is a competition going on between Chengdu and SAC over am F-35 Low fighter equivalent. Huitong says that Chengdu is working on the J-21, perhaps SACs competing design is J-19?
IDK, seems like an awefully big fighter to be considered the "low" fighter in the mix.
I don't think it is fair calling it the "LO" of the mix. It is true that the SAC fighter is probably cheaper and less innovative than the J-20 but its role is different. From what I've read so far the general consensus is that the SAC Fifth gen. will be more of a multi-role platform focusing on surface targets.
Maybe it could potentially be a J-15 follow on?
If the plane's really as big as it is in the photo I think the only real way it can be considered "low" is if it's more of a striker than air dominance.
Oh well that's great -- I was hoping they might eventually build a strike-J-20 but a dedicated striker's good too
But if its weapon bay is like the F-22/J-20 I can't imagine it can hold very potent AG weapons.
If the plane's really as big as it is in the photo I think the only real way it can be considered "low" is if it's more of a striker than air dominance.
Oh well that's great -- I was hoping they might eventually build a strike-J-20 but a dedicated striker's good too
But if its weapon bay is like the F-22/J-20 I can't imagine it can hold very potent AG weapons.
The SAC stealth striker will have all aspect stealth. We are talking about generation gap here.
Well a 5th gen striker in the heavy weight class (as opposed to F-35's medium) will definitely be welcome. Hopefully its weapon bays are big enough to accomodate powered weapons.
We don't really know how far all these projects are along, but out of SAC's 4th gen, J-16 (the J-11BS striker) and JH-7B, I'd say the first one seems to have most evidence or "chatter" to support it.
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