I hope this is a wakeup call for the construction of hangers for the PLA, seriously, live military reconnaissance from on social media/forums.
J-20 5th Generation Fighter VII
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Hangers won’t prevent military satellites from spotting the aircraft so what’s the point?
That said, expect flurry of Indian reports about Rafale spotting the J-20 in the not so distant future.
That's first ever deployment in Tibet isn't it? I think we haven't seen even prototypes in Tibet yet.
It's in Hotan, southern Xinjiang, near Kashmir. Also, the last place where prototypes get deployed is frontline airbases.
These J-20s were probably put out there deliberately for satellites to see, to serve as a warning to India.
China is too strong. Even if China did not bring the J-20 to the border area, Indians did not dare attack China. China does not want war (or pre-attack), so it does not conceal the drills and moves troops to the border, the ultimate goal is to gain a lot of advantage on the negotiating table. A few J-20s are not enough to put military pressure on India and it doesn't help much if war does.
This was to answer US plan to fly B-2 bomber in this border.
F-35 sensor fusion is not work, may be until couple years later.
It only can choose one sensor to work.
I agree that we have to be careful about comparing aircraft such as J-20, F-35, and F-22 on the basis of which is the "best plane." There are so many factors that determine a type's effectiveness.
Networking could be an advantage for China. It has built its military rapidly over the last two decades. In theory, this may have made it easier to network aircraft and systems together - assuming they had the foresight to set communications standards early on. "Informationalised warfare" has long been an emphasis for Beijing, so I'd wager that data standards were worked out early on.
USAF, for its part, has challenges networking F-22 to pretty much anything else, including its stablemate from Lockheed, the F-35, let alone other assets or service branches. The difference is the US fleet evolved over a much longer timescale.
It's really anyone's guess how good J-20s sensor fusion and comms are, but it can be certain Beijing wants it to feed data to other assets, and in turn receive useful data. It's all about the kill chain.
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