MwRYum
Major
Re: New Generation Fighter
China have better tools against large surface combatants than risking its aircraft assets - long range cruise missiles fired from mobile land launchers and H-6 platform far inland. What'd they need then is to deny the OpFor aerial assets from carry out pre-amp strikes, AWACS and ECM. That's where the J-20 can provide its service.
Then there's the tactical strike missions. While J-20 not big enough for cruise missiles without using external pylons, with availability of Chinese version of SDM, JDAM, JSOW and other ground attack munitions, it'd be a headache to all its potential foes until they get their own 5th-gen fighters online.
And I can bet Chinese progress on J-20 would make India push Russian harder in the T-50 R&D, since they got a stake there as well.
I doubt it's big enough to house AShM's, but revealing its position temporarily isn't the end of the plane. The missiles needs to be able to track its position, not just know where it was at one point of time.
China have better tools against large surface combatants than risking its aircraft assets - long range cruise missiles fired from mobile land launchers and H-6 platform far inland. What'd they need then is to deny the OpFor aerial assets from carry out pre-amp strikes, AWACS and ECM. That's where the J-20 can provide its service.
Then there's the tactical strike missions. While J-20 not big enough for cruise missiles without using external pylons, with availability of Chinese version of SDM, JDAM, JSOW and other ground attack munitions, it'd be a headache to all its potential foes until they get their own 5th-gen fighters online.
And I can bet Chinese progress on J-20 would make India push Russian harder in the T-50 R&D, since they got a stake there as well.