kungfugymnast
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You have the most sophisticated sensors (radar, IR, optical) on the planet, and missiles (PL-10) that can be cued using HMD. Somehow you're still going to risk a high value asset by trying to get into a WWII style gunfight. On top of that you're using 50 year old experience that no longer applies today.
Yankee has been wrong a lot before, so take it with a grain of salt. I rather leave out the gun and save some space/weight for future upgrades.
If you're up against F-22A and F-35A, you can't track them and launch missiles beyond 20Nm and no one knows how close range they'll get before you could acquire lock and launch missiles. Risk of radar guided missiles might not able to lock at all is there and IR guided missiles effective range too might reduced. J-20 will get its gun when the WS-10C is proven capable enough to give the J-20B adequate thrust or wait for WS-15 in J-20C only to get gun.