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Chengdu J-20 5th Generation Aircraft News & Discussions

... in a few years.

Hmm? From the sources I've read, it's powering it right now:

http://www.scmp.com/news/china/arti...ighter-flies-fighting-forces-says-state-media

China’s latest stealth fighter, the J-20, is serving in the People’s Liberation Army air force, according to state media.

The report said the new aircraft had joined joint drills with troops, rocket forces and the navy.

A source close to the PLA said the J-20s were all equipped with home-made WS-15 engines, but because the engine had not entered mass production, only a few J-20s were available for service.

“There are still a series of technical problems that need to be tackled [on the J-20], including the reliability of its WS-15 engines, [and the plane’s] control system, stealth coat and hull materials and infrared sensor,” said the source, who requested anonymity.

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Still needs work before it can enter mass production, but the J-20's that have been inducted so far are equipped with the WS-15.
 
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World is heading towards multiple powers and China is definatily one of them. There sud be surprise element in it and it can't happen if there is no research and indigenous development.
I congratulate our best buddy China.:china::pakistan:.
 
Still needs work before it can enter mass production, but the J-20's that have been inducted so far are equipped with the WS-15.

Surely not. Latest reports say the WS-15 has just entered the next stage of testing, not even flight testing ... so how could it be already used in the current J-20s? ... and even more, I won't rate Minni Chan a reliable first hand source.

I heard that WS-15 is having issues. How true is that?

Honestly I don't know ... that have others to decide.
 
Surely not. Latest reports say the WS-15 has just entered the next stage of testing, not even flight testing ... so how could it be already used in the current J-20s? ... and even more, I won't rate Minni Chan a reliable first hand source.



Honestly I don't know ... that have others to decide.

The SCMP is quoting PLA sources, do you have any sources that contradict it?
 
One of the most difficult thing in designing the 5th gen is weapons launch system.

I don't know how many it can carry but sound fishy to me, unless China didn't want to reveal the weapon launched test.
But weapons have been tested
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so j-20 is now equipped with ws-15 or that russian engine? wasnt there ppl(inlcuding several notable western members in this thread) who insisted that j-20 is using the al-31fn? hahahaha
 
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China stealth jet enters service, navy building 'first class' fleet

Reuters March 10, 2017

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China's Liaoning aircraft carrier with accompanying fleet conducts a drill in an area of South China Sea in this undated photo taken December, 2016. REUTERS/Stringer

By Ben Blanchard

BEIJING (Reuters) - China has put into service its new generation J-20 stealth fighter, a warplane it hopes will narrow the military gap with the United States, as senior naval officers said the country was building a "first class" navy and developing a marine corps.

Chinese President Xi Jinping is overseeing a sweeping modernization of the country's armed forces, the largest in the world, including anti-satellite missiles and advanced submarines, seeking to project power far from its shores.

In a report late on Thursday, state television's military channel confirmed that the J-20 had now entered service, though it gave no other details.

The aircraft was shown in public for the first time in November at the Zhuhai airshow and was first glimpsed by Chinese planespotters in 2010.

However questions remain whether the new Chinese fighter can match the radar-evading properties of the Lockheed Martin F-22 Raptor air-to-air combat jet, or the latest strike jet in the U.S. arsenal, Lockheed's F-35. The F-22, developed for the U.S. Air Force, is the J-20's closest lookalike.

China showed off another stealth fighter it's developing, the J-31, at the last Zhuhai airshow in 2014, a show of muscle that coincided with a visit by U.S. President Barack Obama for an Asia-Pacific summit.

China hopes the J-31, still in development, will compete with the U.S.-made F-35 stealth aircraft in the international market, according to state media reports.

The navy is another key focus for China.

China's navy has been taking an increasingly prominent role in recent months, with a rising star admiral taking command, its first aircraft carrier sailing around self-ruled Taiwan and new Chinese warships popping up in far-flung places.

With President Donald Trump promising a U.S. shipbuilding spree and unnerving Beijing with his unpredictable approach on hot button issues including Taiwan and the South and East China Seas, China is pushing to narrow the gap with the U.S. Navy.

Wang Weiming, deputy chief of staff of the People's Liberation Army Navy, told Xinhua on the sidelines of the annual meeting of parliament that China is speeding up the development of a marine corps, adding destroyers and frigates and will step up air and sea patrols.

"We will intercept any intruding aircraft and follow every military vessel in areas under our responsibility," Wang said. "Our sailors should stay vigilant and be able to deal with emergencies at all times."

China's second, domestically-developed aircraft carrier is in "good shape" and now awaiting fitting, he added, in comments reported late Thursday.

Experts expect it will enter service around 2020, joining China's existing, Soviet-built carrier the Liaoning.

Another senior officer, Li Yanming, political commissar of the Navy's armaments department, said a "first-class navy should be equipped with first-class armaments", the report added.

Navy arms manufacturing would have "better quantity, quality, scope, and functionality", Li said, without elaborating.

China's military ambitions, including taking a more assertive stance in the disputed South China Sea, including building artificial islands and ramping up defense spending, have long rattled its neighbors.

China this year initially failed to publicly release its defense budget on the opening day of parliament as it has done in previous years, finally saying a day later on Monday that it would rise by 7 percent to 1.044 trillion yuan ($151.12 billion).

China's defense spending amounts to only about a quarter of the U.S. defense budget, though many experts believe its actual spending on the military to be higher than the official figure.

China denies it is a military threat to anyone.

Wang Huayong, deputy political commissar of the Eastern Theatre Command, told Xinhua that Chinese forces are for defensive purposes only.

"The aircraft carrier is still in training and trial stage. The marines remain weak, and the number and quality of long-distance vessels do not meet expectations."

(Reporting by Ben Blanchard; Editing by Michael Perry)

https://www.yahoo.com/news/china-step-patrols-create-first-class-navy-011210689.html
Typical Yankee news. Most Chinese feel PLA is not spending enough on military. US MILITARY spending us 600 billion. China doesn't cry like little bitch US . :lol:
 
so j-20 is now equipped with ws-15 or that russian engine? wasnt there ppl(inlcuding several notable western members in this thread) who insisted that j-20 is using the al-31fn? hahahaha
So can we safely assume now that finally @Asok is right, at least partially, in his many persistent lengthy postings about the J-20 is using the domestic type engine? :-)

If indeed 20 units of J-20 has been in service, instead of the meager number of 5 units, it shows the production goes on smoothly! So how many can we expect by the end of 2017?
 
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