(Luft) Chengdu Aircraft Industry J-20/FC-31/J-35

[Erich]

Vom Bild über dem Artikel nicht stören lassen, die schreiben über die J-20:
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The future of China's fifth-generation stealth fighter

21:06 29/12/2010
© RIA Novosti. Maria Chapligina
RIA Novosti military commentator Ilya Kramnik

Both experts and amateurs who have studied the blurred photos of an unfamiliar fighter jet on a runway in China (<!-- m --><a class="postlink" href="http://china-defense.blogspot.com/2010/12/chinese-stealth-in-plain-sight-curious.html">http://china-defense.blogspot.com/2010/ ... rious.html</a><!-- m -->) have concluded that Beijing has started testing its fifth-generation stealth fighter.

The J-20 prototype is expected to rival the U.S. F-22 and the Russian T-50 fighters. But is China ready to start mass-producing the aircraft? How good is the prototype?
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Engine

It is not clear what kind of engine the plane will have. Some say it will use the prospective Chinese-made WS-15 engine with a maximum thrust exceeding 18,000 kg, but the engine is still in the pipeline.

China has been unable to reproduce Russia's highly efficient high-temperature turbofan AL-31F engine, designed in the early 1980s and currently mounted on the Su-27 fighter and its modifications. The engines for Sukhoi planes manufactured in China are made in Russia and then assembled and adjusted in China.

The AL-31F engine is also mounted on China's J-10 fighter planes. The engine's Chinese analogue, the WS-10, is less efficient than the Russian prototype.

Materials
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Electronics
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Weapons
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Conclusions
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The J-20 fighter was produced nearly 20 year after the U.S. YF-22 (the prototype of the mass-produced F-22A), 17 years after the Russian MiG-1.44 (MiG-MFI, or Multifunctional Frontline Fighter), and 14 after Russia's S.37 (Su-47).

If the J-20 is accepted as the prototype for a new series, China will be able to produce a fifth-generation fighter plane within 10 years. If not, it will begin batch production no sooner than 15 or 20 years from now.

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man könnt meinen, RIA NOVOSTI hat einiges aus der Diskussion aus unserem Forum aufgenommen, aber - das ist ja nur ein "russisches Staatsschmierblatt", wie unser junger Republikaner zu sagen pflegt, und daher komplett unglaubwürdig