For all who is up to their nose with pride about Stealth Technology and how mother of all aeronautics awes it is, think again cos what's suggested here might not in fact be all that ridiculous...
Yes, stealth technology, eventually might not be that hot going into the future after all because one technology will be guaranteed to be defeated by another...
In other words: Applied sciences will null the gist of what stealth is all about and hence rendering it obsolete as what some countries in the world are now already putting into practice technologies which overrides the advantages offered by stealth... Following is a transcript to that effect:
Rough translation:
Chen Hu (narrator):
Fourth-generation fighter"s" (stealth fighter"s")
will not form the mainstream of fighters (won't dominate the sky)
may be short-lived (will possibly go obsolete)
I for one tend to be of the same school as this narrator is with respect to stealth technology cos, the science that came up with with stealth technology will be defeated by sciences designed to neutralizing or causes it to be nulled...
Ten years my opinion, stealth technology, just like the geometric swing wing fighter technology of olden days, will go the way of the doodle bird.
Put a note of it on your calendar 2015-2020 time frame and see if 'm correct on this one.
Alot of people here have compared this T-50 to F-22 or F-35. As far as im concerned, Russia made their plane specifically to their needs...which maybe very different to American needs of F-22 and F-35. Therefore the planes would be different, and this difference does not mean one is better or worst than the other.
Same applies to China's future J-XX.
My take:
The T-50 is a joint venture similar to that of the Panavia Tornado which is between GB and W-German; it's like the EF- 2000 Typhoon which is a joint venture between certain members of the EU; it's like China's JF-17/FC-1 worked out between Pakistan and China; it's
"probably" also like that of Japan's F-2 and that of Taiwan's F-CK-1 which are linked to American involvement or even investments... These are quality top notch products, yes, but... I wouldn't expect it to be the crème de la crème's high ends as the Rafale, as the Su-35; or what's in the F-22, therefore I wouldn't expect anyone to out strip the gist of what's in this latter list just yet...
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