Those large missiles has tremendous range, but the cheer weight means a massive momentum, they are better at keeping AWAC’s away then intercepting aware nimble fighters.

Think of it as a kamakazi on your tail, scary thought all right 😀

Maybe but the gap would be much smaller…

As for the final choice..you should follow Indian politics,the govt is on the ropes with the press viciously attacking it for various scams. No way will they give the press another bone to attack them on.
They will pick the most expensive safe option.

The safest option for india is the Russian option.
However, the government has a commitment to reform the defence procurement process, which is evident in the previous defence procurement policies, at the same time the level of tech transfer and the level of the tech is very important for future plans of the ministry of defence.

Have you ever noticed this only an enlarged fuselage of twin engine F-35 with 1.44 wing added, nothing new.
Now we can see the entire fuselage of J-20 merely is a scaled copy of F-35 and its wing shape is a copy of 1.44, Why the canards on J-20 was made as anhedral? Pelvic fin has been seen even, makes it a very interceptor back to last centery.

Oh, its canopy look like F-22, does this means advantage to us?

That was the first impression i got, the front and side profile looks like a double engine F-35 with out the rear aspect stealth, something it shares with the PAK-FA prototype, possibly waiting for production engines.

some say from certain angles it looks like the 1.44, some even say it reminds them of the F-111.
I think that is quite a good proof of some hectic amount of work done on the design.

Why is it the age of an aircraft design rates a mention? the original Herc has been around since the 1950s, but with modern tech is still the most bought tactical airlifter. The F-16 is a superb design, and will be superior to alot of regional threats.

Its still old and going to be out of service with the parent air force (USAF), never a good thing, as there is that much less motivation to introduce constant upgrades by the manufacturer. The plane is good if the plan is to use it as a stop gap for F-35s & you already have a set up to use the plane, no need to invest in the complete training and maintenance infra.

this aircraft is a part of a collection of Chinese weaponry that will be used to enforce chinese claims….

Right, and become isolated from the world market before you can say south, china or sea……

The worlds not that simple anymore, PRC will keep on trying to avoid any moves that make it out to be a belligerent power and hence avoid any regional and global alliance against it, a much bigger issue will be to make sure global markets are open for trade.

And so does everyone else.

http://www.af.mil/information/index.asp
http://www.raf.mod.uk/equipment/
etc. etc.
The thing is they have a very different way of communicating their information, and do not face a pressure for justifying their funding to the population, i think the higher the degree of transparency that can be achieved in military affairs, the better it is (leads to a more effective and less corrupt organisation).

Black paint is for high visibility against a blue sky. Check put telemetry laden typhoon photos from around 2001

Thats why i think they will fly this bird around at night(on account of all the secrecy, do you recall many prototypes painted black?). There was also the rafale black prototype, looked sexy, like a curvy lady in a black dress.

As far as aerodynamic concepts go, but having a concept and having the needed technology to match it, are quite different. The US has advanced enough RAM to carry through such designs…the Russians don’t (so the Russian solution is purely for aerodynamics and simplicity)…ie its not more “advanced” if you can’t meet the performance levels of the “outdated” design (in RCS terms)

Right, the Russians don’t cause you were there during all the lab tests, eh!

I hope this is the cockpit, it looks damn clean… very F-35ish+ the HUD (and the mouse lol).

Its the prototype, so changes could occur by the time the production model comes up.
Is there a chance that they are testing some avionics on the J-10B program?

From someone who dont know very much about technical details (me), the PAK FA lines seems the more elegant of all, but the Raptor looks more high tech. J XX simply looks alien in a positive way.

I think a big difference is that the F-22 is a production plane, while the two others are prototypes, cant still understand the black paint job, are they planning to fly the prototype at night time?
The canopy does look exactly similar, like built in the same production line similar….

paralay

I think the canards are a bit different, they appear to me to be more like the ones on the SAABs drawings of a 5th generation plane.

Basically the shape of the canard roughly matching the shape of the wing, what do you think?