Is it true that "China’s J-20 stealth fighter [and Russian T-50] could break the monopoly of Western countries on fourth-generation fighters, perhaps even exerting a bigger influence than the American F-22 Raptor, according to Chinese military expert Li Li in a CCTV interview."
CCTV is based in China. So let's just call this "fake" news.
The F-22, and the B-2 and F-35 are (as was our retired F-117), fully stealthed aircraft.
The not yet deployed Chinese J-20 and the Russian T-50 are frontal-only stealth aircraft that must fly toward the radar to have stealth.
As I note in that post, if we need to match these Chinese and Russian planes--and if they are put into mass production they could, if you turn down the lights and squint, have a bigger influence than our two wings of F-22s--we have the F-15 Silent Eagle and a more stealthy version of the Super Hornet carrier plane that could be put into production for our Air Force and Navy.
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- Brian J. Dunn
- I live and write in Ann Arbor, Michigan. University of Michigan AB and MA from Eastern Michigan University. One term in the Michigan Army National Guard. Former American history instructor and retired nonpartisan research analyst. I write on Blogger and Substack. Various military and private journals have published my occasional articles on military subjects. See "My Published Works" on the TDR web version or under the mobile version drop-down menu for citations and links.
