Re: J-xx
uuhhh no it is 1983, courtesy of
so it is 22 years, but the difference is, it had a prototype by 1991, giving it 8 years for a airframe, if the J-XX is going to enter service in 2015 and fly by 2013, I give China credit for getting the J-XX faster into service but not airframe testable time.
The J-XX... should borrow some tech from the Su-30MKK/2 and the J-10, the J-XX COULD be a low-mounted winged belly intake fighter plane like the MFI and EF-2000, but one of the reason that the Raptor had a frame by 91' was because they were in competition with Boeing, CAC should be allowed to develop their own version, at least China can choose between 2 version to see which is better... With incentive to a project, people tend to do much better, at least there is something else to look forwards to instead of just time and dates