J-20 replaces all Flankers? When, in 40 years? :p
PLAAF has lots of ancient stuff it needs to place before Flankers.

Also don’t overestimate the SCO. China was completely mum during the 8-8-8 war, and Russia sure as hell ain’t coming to China’s help in any potential struggle with its neighbors. SCO is useful political medium, but joint defense, it is not.

Russia is obliged to step in if China is attacked. If China attacks someone, Russia doesn’t need to do anything. That is what mutual security means.

I dont care what F15SE claims, were are not talking about F15SE.

The latest data we have for RCS is

Gripen NG: 0.1 m2
JF17 Thunder: 1.0 m2

no way this can be possible unless Gripen NG uses RAM. canards do not have the same vertical alignment as the main wings and are huge radar reflectors from the frontal side.

latest from CAC !

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=FBn2h1CnnZI

Is it me or does J-20 look highly ungainly. The design doesn’t seem to blend very well IMO. 🙁

devastating design flaws in F-22. corruption by LM

http://www.flightglobal.com/news/articles/ex-f-22-engineer-to-sue-lockheed-for-stealth-design-329025/

http://www.flightglobal.com/blogs/the-dewline/2009/06/ex-lockheed-engineer-sues-lock.html

in retrospect, not only should the Obama administration terminated F-22 production, all existing F-22 jets should have been scrapped and refunded by LM

Your estimations are based on…..eyeballing and massive assumptions.

Nice.

I estimate Tejas has 1/3rd the RCS of the J-20, also it looks like it has better cockpit view (better dogfighter) and has a bigger spine, so I estimate it has more fuel.

I don’t doubt that Tejas has a smaller frontal RCS as compared to J-20. 😎 Tejas would certainly have a MUCH smaller frontal RCS as compared to J-20 if it also has DSI bumps to conceal the engine blades which are made of titanium and are much more reflective of radar waves as compared to painted aluminum. As for having more fuel, I don’t think so. J-20 is many times the size of Tejas. 😮 J-20 is still several years from being operational and therefore there is nothing as of yet to discuss about it. BTW, do F-15SE’s conformal weapons bays have enough room to contain bombs and surface to air missiles? Doesn’t look like they do to me.

Why the F-15SE all of a sudden PhiltheBeloved? Are you now going to claim that the JF-17 is stealthier than the F-15SE from the front-on aspect?

What makes you think Thunder’s frontal RCS is not less than F-15SE’s? F-15 is huge and has no DSI to conceal its engine blades. Don’t get me wrong. I love F-15SE, but I don’t think its frontal RCS is smaller than Thunder’s. 😉 Internal weapons bays don’t do much in fact. From the front, air to air missiles have very small RCS, with most of the radar waves reflected back from a single point in the middle. In fact, I would wager that F-15SE’s conformal weapons bays have bigger RCS than the missiles they contain. 😉 Manufacturers can claim a whole lot of stuffs, doesn’t mean they are all true.

F-15SE, one of my fave jets http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kn6nx_GGERQ

What a valuable observation.

Tank you. 😀 Oh, and Gripen is yet to be fitted with UV band MAWS that Thunder has. I believe Gripen E shall have that system.

Viability of an AWAC fighter plane?

Thunder’s tail-mounted EW seems much bigger and more capable than Gripen and J-10A’s EW. Just my observation. 😀 Seems like Thunder wins in the EW department as well.