Chengdu J-20 5th Generation Aircraft News & Discussions

S10 · Sep 10, 2021

ZeEa5KPul said:
What info is that? And ready as in ready for production or ready for flight testing?

I think it would be the start of LRIP at that stage.

onebyone · Sep 10, 2021

https://twitter.com/x/status/1436231925128073228

kungfugymnast · Sep 10, 2021

DJ_Viper said:
This is fundamental difference in how the US strategists think and others. Your J-20 or B1, etc, should never be in a position to requiring a gun. If that ever could happen, that immediately means that your Tier I, II and support / backup aircraft have all been destroyed. So then your one jet won't see any different of a fat, even IF it had a weapon. Weapons are created per strategies, strategies are created to counter scenarios and situations, these jets are not created for a dog fight like an F-16 or F-16 would do. That's a billion dollars being put at risk to be quickly wasted. A race car, a truck and a bus are designed for VERY different applications in life. They can't be the same.

There's no actual stealth fighter vs stealth fighter engagement before and it is expected that missiles effective pk would greatly reduced especially radar guided missiles. If an Iraqi Mig-25 successful spoofed and evaded dozens of AIM-120 launched from F-15C squadron, a stealth fighter could do it even better. Both stealth fighters can't kill each other at medium range would get into dogfight. The 1 with gun would have better chance than the 1 without after all effective missiles depleted.

DJ_Viper · Sep 10, 2021

kungfugymnast said:
There's no actual stealth fighter vs stealth fighter engagement before and it is expected that missiles effective pk would greatly reduced especially radar guided missiles. If an Iraqi Mig-25 successful spoofed and evaded dozens of AIM-120 launched from F-15C squadron, a stealth fighter could do it even better. Both stealth fighters can't kill each other at medium range would get into dogfight. The 1 with gun would have better chance than the 1 without after all effective missiles depleted.

Clearly, you didn't understand anything from my post!