Apologies. Although, IMHO, the Chinese 6th generation concept does kinda resemble the jet from Firefox. I’ll try to keep things on topic henceforth.

The MiG 1.44 was a really good machine, even if they base the J-20 upon the MiG-1.44, you can get assure it is a machine that will surpass the eurocanards, F-35 and F-22 in flight performance and maneuvrability, if the J-20 is equipped with Russian 117s will be a really good machine, added the Chinese avionics and a few tweaking in the inlet you can get a really good aircraft.
Recent news say China and Russia have agreed to co-operate in license agreements and copy right issues of russian weapons in China, so if they are willing to sell the 117s on Su-35BMs they will sell it for the J-20

For China to build the MiG-1.44 means they are getting almost the PAK FA level of technology because the MiG-1.44 was to be modified into a real fifth gneneration fighter

One does not simply modify a 4th generation fighter into a 5th generation fighter.

Defense
Russia ready to sell Su-35 fighter jets to China

Russia’s state-run arms exporter Rosoboronexport said on Tuesday it was ready to hold talks with China on the delivery of advanced Su-35 fighter aircraft to the Chinese air force.

“We are ready to work with our Chinese partners to this end [Su-35 deliveries],” Deputy General Director of Rosoboronexport Alexander Mikheyev said at the Airshow China 2010, which is being held on November 16-21 in Zhuhai.

http://en.rian.ru/mlitary_news/20101116/161359301.html

Did they learn nothing from the last time they did this?

The F-35 is the net work! AWACS is nice but 5th generation platforms can act as sensor nodes.

I thought the F-22 can only receive data.

Shukla sahib says that F-35 with 2 internal PGMs and 2 internal AMRAAMs, plus 2 External fuel tanks, 2 extrenal PGMs, 2 external AIM-9x type missiles will have a very high performance compared to a Gripen/Eurofighter/Rafale/super hornet/Mig-35.

Even if this was an option, the price and ToT would likely be unacceptable. And I don’t think that with external fuel tanks and missiles that the F-35 will have better performance at all than the planes listed. If anything it would have significantly worse performance- it loses the stealth advantage and the advantage of flying clean. Even with those advantages it would likely have inferior performance to most of the aircraft listed in many ways. The F-35 has two things going for it over the MMRCA candidates- stealth and sensor fusion. It would lose the stealth advantage by flying with external stores.

Tornado with M88’s would have been more practical than an M53-powered Tornado. Two M88’s are more fuel efficient than a single M53.

And we know the best engine ever installed on the F-14 was the F110-400.

Some considerations:

Honeywell F125-powered F-5E Tiger II
Honeywell F125-powered Jaguar (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QISldH-zAP0)
General Electric J85-powered Alpha Jet
Turbo Union RB199-powered Northrop YF-17 or F-CK-1 Ching-kuo
General Electric J79-powered EE Lightning
Rolls-Royce RB.168 Mk 202-powered Mirage III
Pratt & Whitney PW1120-powered Starfighter
Pratt & Whitney PW1120-powered Phantom II
Eurojet EJ200-powered Gripen
Eurojet EJ200-powered Rafale
General Electric F101-powered F-16XL or Mitsubishi F-2

Oh, dear that nice British lady in the video keeps saying, “Jaggy-Ooh-Ar”. My ears are bleeding.

Has the AESA on the J-10b been confirmed? I’ve heard nothing solid.

From here:
http://www.aviationweek.com/aw/generic/story.jsp?id=news/awst/2010/09/20/AW_09_20_2010_p71-253575.xml&headline=Missile-Killing%20Interceptors%20Eyed%20By%20Israel,%20U.S.&channel=defense

The Stunner interceptor, designed and built by Rafael in a cooperative program with Raytheon, is a low-cost design that targets threats such as cruise missiles, medium- and long-range artillery rockets and short-range ballistic missiles. It has two stages: The first is a solid-fuel, rocket motor booster; the second is a curious asymmetrical kill vehicle with advanced steering for increased agility. A three-pulse motor provides additional thrust at critical moments of flight. A multi-mode sensor package—electro-optical and millimeter wave, electronically scanned array radar—provides all-weather performance against small, maneuvering targets. The Stunner is larger than Raytheon’s AIM-120 medium-range air-to-air missile but smaller than the Arrow 3 interceptor.