Chengdu J-20 5th Generation Aircraft News & Discussions

[帅的一匹]

Chinese flying boom on Y20.

 

[Beast]

AI will make aerial refueling much easier and safer. Just like J-15 landing on carrier deck assisted by AI system.

 

[Muhammad Omar]

"雪鸮/Snow Owl" was the program which SAC and CAC competed in for the 4th generation fighter program.

SAC's design was even larger than the J-20 and emphasised kinematic performance over stealth.
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The plane on the left looks like a stealth twin engine JF-17
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Are these 2 new fighter planes China is working on??

 

[LKJ86]

Are these 2 new fighter planes China is working on??

There is only one survival in the competition of J-20.

 

[LKJ86]

https://m.weibo.cn/1497728405/4237041132126222

 

[LKJ86]

https://m.weibo.cn/1617093763/4237064352350402

 

[LKJ86]

J-20 vs J-16 in FCS

 

[HRK]

J-20 vs J-16 in FCS
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plz translate

 

[星海军事]

J-20 vs J-16 in FCS
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This article was simply done by copy and paste and quoting remarks out of context.

 

[LKJ86]

 

[ZeEa5KPul]

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That's the man, right there! A living legend.

 

[rambro]

That's the man, right there! A living legend.

Why is he important?

 

[ZeEa5KPul]

Why is he important?

No particular reason, he's just the child prodigy chief designer of the J-20 is all:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yang_Wei_(aircraft_designer)

 

[Cybernetics]

Why is he important?

Yang Wei is great at what he does. He had contributed greatly to the development of China's fighter programs and is rumoured to be involved in China's 5th generation (international 6th generation) fighter program, though not sure if he is the lead for that program. His consistency in his work adds to this reputation. J-10 twin seater, fly-by-wire, JF-17, J-20. It is not just his work on fighter programs that has important implications but he helped bring up a future generation of engineers that will become the foundation of China's future military aviation industry. He played a big part in forming institutions that are foundational.

From Wiki
Education
Yang was the youngest general designer China ever had, completing his undergraduate education by the age of 19, and graduate education by the age of 22 from the Northwestern Polytechnical University. Yang first joined the Chengdu Aircraft Design Institute in the late 1980s, and by the age of 38, he was promoted to the highest rank within the institute — director of the institute.

Career
Since 1998, Yang has become the general designer of numerous aircraft, and he is also one of the founders of fully digitized fly-by-wire control systems in China, a feat that greatly helped him become general designer of aircraft. Under his leadership, it took less than four years to achieve a maiden flight from scratch for FC-1, a record that remains unbroken in China today, and this was achieved while Yang was also the general designer of the Chengdu J-10 double seated version. Although only being the general designer of the twin seater version of the Chengdu J-10, Yang was the chief engineer of the digital fly-by-wire control systems for both the single seater and the twin seater version of the Chengdu J-10. Due to the nature of his work, Yang's achievements were kept secret and it wasn't until January, 2007 that Chengdu J-10 began to appear in a very limited fashion on official Chinese governmental websites, such as the Xinhua News Agency.

Awards
Recipient of Pakistan's high civilian honour Sitara-e-Imtiaz in 2017 for his services to design JF-17 Aircraft.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yang_Wei_(aircraft_designer)

 

[Deino]