According to the reports of the Jane's Defence Weekly, China has already launched its next generation stealthy fighter aircraft programme, and Shenyang Aircraft Industry Co. (SAC) has been selected to head research and development of a new fighter for the PLA Air Force (PLAAF).
PROGRAMME
According to the report from Jane's, development of the subsystems including the engine and weapon suite for the next generation fighter, which was codenamed by the Western intelligence as J-XX, has been underway for some time. Images of the concepts show a twin-engine aircraft sharing some design traits with Lockheed Martin's stealthy F/A-22 "Raptor" multirole fighter such as the internal carriage of its weapons.
Not too much public information about the programme is available at the moment. The aircraft, which could be designated as J-13 or J-14, is still going through initial concept work, the same stage as the USAF Advanced Tactical Fighter (ATF) programme in the early 1980s, which later led to the F/A-22 Raptor. Sources within China's confirmed that the SAC is looking at a twin-engine, single-seat, single vertical tale fin design, but other design proposals has yet been ruled out.
As China has developed close ties with Russia's aerospace industry and has license produced many planes of formal Soviet designs, it can be predicted that the J-XX would include some, if not many Russian technologies and designs. China has been offered a 'joint development and production' of a new fifth-generation fighter by Russia -LFI. Russia has been trying to sell this concept both to China and India for some time, but neither of them has committed fully yet. According to Russian resources, the LFI will be able to counter U.S. second fifth-generation Joint Strike Fighter (JSF).
Stealth and thrust vectoring are two must-have features in all aircraft being designed in the 21st century. If is not clear that how much progress Chinese designers have made in these areas, and Chinese aircraft industry may have to take Western/Israeli/Russian helps to make the J-XX truly fouth-generation (or fifth-generation using the Russian standards). Once introduced, the J-12's immediate rival will be U.S. F/A-22, JSF and India's MCA (Medium Combat Aircraft).
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I don't know, but that has some similarities with the Su-27, take a deep look ;)
The second one is a YF-23.. American built. looks bit like the Wyvern out of Ace Combat..
Wich aircraft has similarities with the Su-27, the J-XX or the Wyvern?
Ok. I've got a friend from China. They're developing ALL sorts of new stuff. But that's not important right now. (We wait until USA gets blown up by them and we send a plane over to pick Cobra2 up while there's still hope. ;D)
It's supposed to reach the same stage as the F-22 eventually, and they actually intend to surpass American technology for this one. Don't ask me how, that's just what i was told. The rest of the details are mostly here already, and i'm seriously bad at Chinese-English translation. So the little details are all left out. :) And of course, it will be "stealth." And worst of all, they're going to sell it. A boon to their economy, and a major threat to the other world powers. And if they manage their target performance, the Raptor wil be old news.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shenyang_J-XXI do not doubt that Gripen ;D But I got the impression people here were commenting on that photo of an airframe in a hangar being the J-xx. Looks like a combination of real background with scaled model and photoshop finish to me.
a plane called the J-XX does exist.
I remeber saying that the planes probably a mock up to confused the intelligence community on a different topic ages ago..
Yes Valkyrian, welcome to our wacky little world.Gripen, I would suggest there is no real way for us to know. The people who would are the ones you mentioned in your previous two posts in this topic. Hence my view that it would earlier confuse aircraft enthusiasts. The this group of people isn't necessarily privy to all the information.
How do we know what China has and dosent have? They got all sorts of stuff of the Russkies, and they have spies do they not?