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The Eurofighter was not designed with RCS control as high priority, especially with its single vertical stab. Credit to the Chinese to recognize that in order to reduce RCS, twin canted vertical stabs must be installed. Still, if the Eurofighter is the standard against which you or anyone else perceived to be a legitimate standard held, then either the F-22 has nothing to worry about or the lot of you take my advice and simply wait until more J-20 data is available.Here's why I say the upper bound RCS is clean EF-2000.
1. Both the J-20 and the EF-2000 share many design traits. Of the ones that differ, they differ only as to reduce the RCS of that particular design trait, while seeming to not affect other parts.
2. Both the J-20 and the EF-2000 have 2 engines and a delta canard configuration.
3. The EF-2000 has its intakes in a row at the bottom of the fuselage. The J-20 has side intakes. This is one major design difference. I cannot say one way or another that one would result in a larger RCS or whether the RCS difference is significant. However, I don't think you can either. The easiest way to say it is, they're going to be the same.
4. There is another major design difference: the J-20 has internal weapons bays, so its RCS will not change with or without weapons. Can't be said of EF-2000.
5. And the final part is, it at least has RAM paint on a frame that's similar enough to the EF-2000 to have it as a model.