Air Power Australia has an article about the Chengdu J-XX [J-20] stealth fighter prototype which the People's Liberation Army Air Force says will be put into production in 6 to 8 years. The author claims that it has design features that are superior to the F/A-18, F-35 Joint Strike Fighter, and the Russian/Indian T-50 PAK-FA. Comparable in size to an F-111, it has a range of 1000 nautical miles. We cannot confirm any claims unless our aviation experts obtain one of these fighter aircraft for study.
Flightglobal.com takes a more skeptical view of this prototype, and the author wonders out loud whether the Chinese aircraft industry is ready to produce a competitive stealth fighter or fighter-bomber. They have been able to reverse-engineer and produce parts for the Flanker Bs and Flanker Gs the Russians sold to them.
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