Re: New Generation Fighter
I'm talking about an interview from Kanwa. I think it is very likely this aircraft will be an improved J-10 striving to approach the core capabilities of western 4th G fighter. It will be China's 4th "try".
Pinkov does not know anything more about Chinese military techs than the average Chinese military fan who have spent 2+ years on internet.
The worse part is he is nicknamed in China as the Russian military's sellsman for his extremely bias towards Russia, and his extremely bias against China (He claimed he is an ethnic minority in S.China, and get some mistreatment in China before he went to Japan and then Canada, despite of how much he hate China, ironically the exact reason he can make a living is because China, yes, he hate China but depend on China to feed himself).
All his knowledge about Chinese's 4th genearation fighters are sourced from Chinese internet BBS, and of cause, cooked with his own huge personal bias, in the case of 4th generation fighter, he has already made a joke out of himself:
During last year's airforce day, Chinese's Airforce's vice commander-in-chief's openly claimed that China will field at 4th generation fighter within 8-10 years and will conduct the maiden flight of it very soon (another Chinese general in another TV interview at that time gave the time frame for maiden flight as either in 2010 or 2011).
Obviously the Chinese generals public claims made him lost a lot of sleeps (Chinese generals/politicans at that level wont talks about some project's progress like that unless they are 120% sure its likely the case, since in Chinese culture, if you give out a timeframe but fail to deliever on time, you will get all the blames no matter actually how aggressive the time frame you give is actually is, but if you give out a timeframe and can deliever earlier than it supposed to be, then you get all the prasises everyone will praise you are competent, etc).
Thats why he even went as crazy as writting an article to swear or curse China 2 or 3 days later than the Chinese general's public claims: He swear that if China can field a real 4th generation fighter before 2025, he will stop sell his magizine in China and by his definition, anything below this standard is not considered as a real 4th generation fighter in his "swearing" article:
RCS must smaller than 0.0001 m^2
Must be able to do supercrusie and must use engine with a thrust/weight ratio of 10+
You know, by his definition, F-22 is not a real 4th generation fighter since F119's T/W ratio is only 9+, and F-22's RCS is most likely more than 0.0001m^2 according to most third-party studies.
And we can forget F-35 now, it, at best, can be count as a 3.5 generation by his standards.
And most funny part is that he finally bite the hand who feed him, the russians:
PAK-FA's front RCS is definitiely way way more than 0.0001m^2, actually according to the India's source, its RCS is likley around 0.5 m^2 at front view, due to the arrange of its engines.
As for PAK-FA's engines, there is too little to tell at the moment.
So by the standards he defined in his "swearing" article about Chinese-wont-field-a-true-4th-generation-fighter-or-I-will-stop-selling-my-magizine-in-China/HK, no one have ever fielded a 4th generations, certainly not the russians.
He is just as bias and childish as that.
Thats why many suspect he get money from russians, and he is actually a russian's sellsman with a typical sellsman's big mouth, thats why almost every military fan in China like to make a little fun out of him nowadays.
