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This is what I have been trying to say all this time: Wait.I am making no judgments here, just saying that the J-20's RCS and the F-22's should be comparable, due to similar wing shaping and many of the same design features. Perhaps the J-20 has a larger RCS. Perhaps not.
The J-20 is too early. If the aircraft turned out to be as 'stealthy' as the F-22 within a couple of percentage points, I have no problems calling it an F-22 equivalent. People should realize that the reason why the aviation world give US the latitude they did with the F-22 is because we have a record: F-117 and B-2.
China has no such record. Not even close. So if the aviation world, professional and lay, are skeptical of any claim by any fanboy, we have good cause to do so: No record.
Upon what foundation did you make that guess?I'm just going to throw out a wild guess at an upper bound. The J-20's RCS is smaller than a clean EF-2000. Both planes have canards and 2 engines, but the J-20 at the very least has radar absorbing paint. Since the J-20 has internal weapons bays, putting weapons in it won't make its RCS bigger than the EF-2000. Do you dispute this?