China celebrates the 10th anniversary of the first flight of the J-20: "This fighter changed the balance of power and made the whole world talk about itself."
China is celebrating the 10th anniversary of the first flight of the J-20. Some intermediate results were also summed up. Recall that the first flight of this combat aircraft, which in China belongs to the new generation, took place in January 2011. Then in Beijing they said that China became the second country in the world, which has a new generation of fighters - 4th according to the Chinese classification, the fifth according to the global classification.
The Chinese media published an interview with one of the designers of the J-20 Yang Wei.
According to Yang Wei, when developing a new generation fighter "it was necessary to use the aircraft-building technologies available at that time, to create on their basis a new technological groundwork for improving the design of a combat aircraft."
Yang Wei:
The Chinese press cited statements by military experts. Among them is Song Zhunping, who put it this way:
According to Zhunping, the PLA Air Force J-20 fighter "changed the balance of power and made the whole world talk about itself."
At the same time, today the Chinese press notes that 10 years after the first flight of the J-20 fighter, they have certain problems. One of the main ones is the problem associated with their own engines. Chinese aviation the power plants do not yet fully meet the requests that the Chinese Air Force command makes to them. However, as noted, work continues on the WS-15 engines, "and they are being improved more and more."
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