EzeUche_:

Are you a Marine?

If you are, I was contemplating joining the marines, but decided that I will probably join the air force.

Given its traditional policy of aircraft manufacturing, China will most likely create a functional analogue of foreign-made 5G planes that will cost 50% to 80% less than Russian and U.S. models. China will most likely sell the plane in Central Asia, the Middle East, Latin America and Southeast Asia, as well as to the richest African countries.

Chengdu J-20 ground test from December 2010
Role Stealth air superiority fighter, multirole fighter
Strike fighter
National origin People's Republic of China
Manufacturer Chengdu Aircraft Industry Group
First flight 11 January 2011[1][2]
Introduced 2017–2019 (planned)[2]
Status In development/flight testing[2]
Primary user People's Liberation Army Air Force
Number built 2[3]
Unit cost US$110 million (est.)[4]

The Chengdu J-20 (simplified Chinese: 歼二十; traditional Chinese: 殲二十; pinyin: Jiān èr shí; literally "Annihilator Twenty" is a fifth generation stealth, twin-engine fighter aircraft prototype developed by Chengdu Aircraft Industry Group for the Chinese People's Liberation Army Air Force.[5][6] In late 2010, the J-20 underwent high speed taxiing tests. The J-20 made its first flight on 11 January 2011.[7][8] General He Weirong, Deputy Commander of the People's Liberation Army Air Force said in November 2009 that he expected the J-20 to be operational in 2017–2019.[2]

Specifications
Because the aircraft is in development, these specifications are preliminary and are taken as estimates from the available images.

General characteristics

Crew: 1
Length: 75 ft (23 m[2])
Wingspan: 45 ft (14 m[2])
Height: ()
Max takeoff weight: 75,000–80,000 lb (34,000 - 37,000 kg[2])
Powerplant: 2× WS-10G thrust-vectoring turbofan (155 kN) on production aircraft.[6] Possible WS-15 on production aircraft.[58]
Performance

Cruise speed: Mach 1.5 (estimated)[59]
Combat radius: Estimated at 1,000 nautical miles (1,852 km[59])
Armament


Guns: None on prototype.
Expected to have internal and external hardpoints for missiles, bombs and fuel tanks.
Avionics
Anticipated AESA radar with LPI modes for use against air and surface targets, and low observable data links, infrared missile warning and radar warning sensors.

MandingoII:

[center][size=14pt]The TRUTH is that American new killing machines DO NOT WORK very well.

they CRASH into the ground and into each other.

You do hear how cruise missles and drones kill people by accident ON THE REGULAR.  yet the MEDIA do not report it.

besides 33+% of our Tax dollars goes to the MILITARY INDUSTRIAL COMPLEX.

[b][s]It is a mutha/f/u/c/k/i/n shame that this country spends close to 40% of its tax dollars on KILLING devices.[/s]

A country that does this is NOT a health country and is a Predator.[/b][/size][/center]

armyofone:

40% of taxed dollars to make to kill the bad guys so that you could sleep peacefully at night and you woke this morning to write the crap above, a blacksheep you are and must be high on some cheap crack !
SempiFI
Support our Troops

Thanks jare!
I have a problem with people who just shout!You're in the country sleeping easy, working and making money and you're shouting. If you hate america so much pack your bags and go to countries where they spend all their money on flowers now, na by force? 

armyofone:

40% of taxed dollars to make  to kill the bad guys so that you could sleep peacefully at night and you woke this morning to write the crap above, a blacksheep you are and must be high on some cheap crack !
SempiFI
Support our Troops

armyofone said,

Support our Troops

armyofone:

SemperFI

ride on mate, we are happy with our tasks

MandingoII:

Beyotch please WE LIVE IN A SO CALLED DEMOCRACY.

FREE SPEECH

i can criticize the land of my great great grandparents that BUILT this sleezy B/a?stard.

I'm just saying STOP BELIEVING the gunho hype. It aint true.

Just little boys playing with toys that crash, and have to be revamped again and again.

and who do you think is PAYING for all this cheezy metal.

poor tax payers.

then again, ya'll like fairytales

take your a/s/s to disneyworld

reindeer:


Dropping out of school really hasn't done you any good, trying to sound like uneducated rap stars. Poor thing.

Beaf:

[size=14pt]Chengdu J-20[/size]
Behold the Chinese rival to the F-22 Raptor and T-50.


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chengdu_J-20

MandingoII:

[center][size=14pt]The TRUTH is that American new killing machines DO NOT WORK very well.

they CRASH into the ground and into each other.

You do hear how cruise missles and drones kill people by accident ON THE REGULAR.  yet the MEDIA do not report it.

besides 33+% of our Tax dollars goes to the MILITARY INDUSTRIAL COMPLEX.

It is a mutha/f/u/c/k/i/n shame that this country spends close to 40% of its tax dollars on KILLING devices.

A country that does this is NOT a health country and is a Predator.[/size][/center]

ElRazur:

As a person with interest in military weapons and what not. I think Chinese planes are just there for show. The technology used is usually stolen - Look up on how they buy trade secrets from Israel rogue agents, pakistani ISCI etc. While it may look fierce, it basically cannot out-perform or even match the Western equivalent in air combat or dog fight.

ElRazur:

As a person with interest in military weapons and what not. I think Chinese planes are just there for show. The technology used is usually stolen - Look up on how they buy trade secrets from Israel rogue agents, pakistani ISCI etc. While it may look fierce, it basically cannot out-perform or even match the Western equivalent in air combat or dog fight.

Remember the Russian (Who in my opinion make better technology advancements than China) had the MiG fighters and it was supposed to rival the Western equivalent back then, but it really didn't in real life practical terms.

As it stands, the US air superiority is unsurpassed. Iraq, Libya, and a host of nations who had battle with the US in recent times all had their Air defenses smashed in matter of days with very little resistance.


While country like China are busy trying to match or surpass the US. The US NORAD (Nothern American Aerospace Defense Command) already started work on Laser weaponry from three or four decades ago! The idea is to use Laser weaponry from space to disintegrate enemy targets anywhere on earth. You see, it is pretty much hard for any nation right now to out-maneuver the US Army in terms of technology. They simply invest Billions of dollars in the best brains.

The Department of Defense announced on Thursday that the first test of the Army’s hypersonic weapon, dubbed the Advanced Hypersonic Weapon, was a success.

The hypersonic rocket blasted off from Pentagon’s Pacific Missile Range Facility in Kauai, Hawaii on Thursday and successfully reached its target Kwajalein Atoll, some 2,500 miles away, in just about half an hour.

The Department of Defense describes the hypersonic weapon as a “first-of-its-kind glide vehicle”. A three-stage booster system propels the Advanced Hypersonic Weapon far up into the atmosphere, where it achieves speeds of over five times the speed of sound.

This wasn’t the first time the military tested a weapon of this nature, but it is the first successful one. Over the past year, DARPA attempted to test out their own hypersonic weapon, the Falcon Hypersonic Technology Vehicle 2, on two separate occasions. Both failed.

The report from the Department of Defense didn’t say exactly how fast the AHW is, but the FHTV 2 boasted speeds of Mach 20, or about 13,000-mph, according to DARPA.

The Falcon Hypersonic Technology Vehicle 2 may have been a disappointment for the military, but the Advanced Hypersonic Weapon marks a step forward in the military’s “Conventional Prompt Global Strike” initiative, which aims to develop the capabilities to strike at any point on the Earth as quickly as possible.

The Department of Defense notes that at least part of the successful test of the Advanced Hypersonic Vehicle is in no small part due to the lessons learned by DARPA’s failed attempts with the Falcon Hypersonic Technology Vehicle 2.