Do you propose that the fighter component of the air force be shut down for a time? That reminds me of the Brits (I’m one of them) scrapping fixed-wing carrier operations for a few years.

Yup. We don’t need fighter jets right now right now. Militarily what we need is better intelligence and special units to prevent any further uprisings combined with actual hard, concrete reconciliation efforts since the people in the north simply don’t trust politicians in the south. Heck, I don’t trust our politicians either. If the economy pics up in the near future then maybe. But right now the amount debt that has piled up is getting scary. I just hope we don’t go down the road of Greece.

At the risk of becoming flame-bate, but I thought its worth posting:

Air Force Chief of Staff, 4-star General David L. Goldfein, claims comparing F-35 to J-20 (and others) is irrelevant and more relevant comparison would be to the F-117.

http://breakingdefense.com/2016/08/chinas-j-20-vs-f-35-meh-says-csaf-goldfein-pilot-crisis-noted/
http://www.businessinsider.com/comparing-f35-china-j20-2016-8
http://nationalinterest.org/blog/the-buzz/the-reason-why-americas-f-35-would-crush-chinas-j-20-stealth-17315

Hmm, interesting. Well he did warn potential adversaries saying “It sucks to be you” sometime back.

Since there was some talk about the Type-1475 AESA, I thought I’ll post this:

Moving from PAK-FA thread as it is off topic there.

Vastly vastly disagree. (Yes, he asked about “on first glance” but the comparison is vs T-50 info)

– Yes, we know the number of J-20’s flown. Which doesnt mean much at all as that is true for every 5’th gen fighter.
– Unless i have missed some vital information, we dont know their serials, atleast the true ones. Bort number =/= serial. 053 on T-50 is not a serial number.
– We only know minimal about differences and modifications J-20 has underwent and it is all completely based on pictures, which again, can be said for every 5’th gen fighter.
– Hazy shots of cockpit and grainy pictures of supposed AESA radar don’t mean a jack. It doesnt count as information in my eyes.
– The estimated figures are… estimated. And as far as i know, nothing official, ie complete guesses. The same way some guess Izd.30 will be a 19 tonnes monster. Again, not information.

In short; for all intents and purposes absolutely all J-20 and J-31 information is based on pictures.

IIRC, there are no officially released specs for the J-20, including simple stuff like width, length, etc. J-10 was declared operational late 2003 but official specs were not released until late 2006. So it is very unlikely we will see any official specs for the LRIP J-20 anytime soon.

Regarding the J-31, well, it is an SAC/AVIC project. Not sure whether PLAAF has shown any interest in the J-31 whatsoever.

Yuan 039C variant:

sooner than you think lol

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They mentioned 500 km not 600 km and yes at hi-hi profile (Which indeed seems to be unlocked for the hindu’s). But it’s still limited compared to Onyx. Oddly enough the South Koreans seems to have gotten tech transfer from Russians derived from Onyx ramjet from the looks of it.

Very inappropriate…