J-20... The New Generation Fighter

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MwRYum

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Another angle...
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BTW, some silly journalist popped the J-20 question during the Foreign Affair's daily press conference, of course the spokeswoman told him to ask the military instead...
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Obviously knock the wrong door but can show clearly J-20 really generate interest in the outside world far more than J-10 did back then.
 
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siegecrossbow

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MwRYum said:
Obviously knock the wrong door but can show clearly J-20 really generate interest in the outside world far more than J-10 did back then.
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Duh. J-10 was China's attempt to catch up with her neighbors but the J-20 is the attempt to create a top line fighter capable of competing with the best in the world.
 
Quickie

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From this high-angled view, it's quite clear the J-20 have the planform for high speed. With reasonably powerful engines, it'll be interesting to see how the J-20 will compete with the other stealth fighters purely on speed alone.
 
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What do you think??
 
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Roger604

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Maggern said:
Do they have any proof that Chinese avionics are a generation behind Russian ones?
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siegecrossbow said:
Any one could pull stuff out of his/her rearend. I can say that the Eurofighter is inferior to the J-10B just because it doesn't even employ DSI inlets. We all can make stupid statements like that without responsibility.
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Quickie said:
They don't have to. They know that the average reader know nuts about military technology, especially that of some specific country. The important thing is write something that really sells, something that's the kind of stuff, no matter how inaccurate it's, you would expect your readers to enjoy reading.
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You need to look specifically at the name of the person who wrote the Telegraph article and read the byline carefully to understand why they are spinning it this way.

Maggern said:
I'm rather thinking....remember the first space walk? They had one indigenous space suit and one imported russian one in use up there. One for backup and one for doing the prestige stuff. Perhaps they're doing the same here. One model with AL-31F to do the basic stuff to make sure everything works, and then have one with an indigenous engine to do the show-offing to the big-shots.

And although I'm no engineer, I seriously doubt they could throw around engines just like that, so it's likely to be on different prototypes. I'm sure it's possible to change engines, but that would surely require some heavy infrastructure and be time-consuming, not something a couple of guys with a forklift and a screwdriver could do on the tarmac.

EDIT: Again about the engines...perhaps they have one with an indigenous engine, but they are unsure how well it would work (new model?), and don't want the testing for the other systems of the aircraft be hindered by a faulty engine, so they have another one with a proven engine so they're sure they can continue testing the plane even if no indigenous power plants are satisfying.
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Agreed, I think they already test flew using FWS10A engines and now they are using AL-31F engines for "public test flight." Or vice-versa.

That would also explain why there is so much taxiing! They have to do everything twice. And it would also explain why Andrei Chang swears it is not AL-31F and he recognizes the sound of AL-31F.
 
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