According to the reports of the Jane's Defence Weekly,
China has already launched its next generation stealthy fighter
aircraft programme, and Shenyang Aircraft Industry Co. (SAC) has
been selected to head research and development of a new fighter
for the PLA Air Force
Development of the subsystems including the engine and weapon suite for the next generation fighter has been underway
for some time, according to the report from Jane's. Images of the
concepts show a twin-engine aircraft sharing some design traits
with Lockheed Martin's stealthy F/A-22 "Raptor" multirole
fighter such as the internal carriage of its weaponsMeanwhile there isn't much public information about
the programme. The aircraft, which could be designated as J-13 or
J-14, is still going through initial concept work, the same stage
as the USAF Advanced Tactical Fighter (ATF) programme in the early
1980s, which later led to the F/A-22 Raptor. Sources within China's confirmed
that the SAC is looking at a twin-engine, single-seat, single vertical
tale fin design, but other design proposals has yet been ruled out.As China has developed close ties with Russia's aerospace
industry and has license produced many planes of formal Soviet designs,
it can be predicted that the J-XX would include some, if not many
Russian technologies and designs. China has been offered a 'joint
development and production' of a new fifth-generation fighter by
Russia -LFI. Russia has been trying to sell this concept both to
China and India for some time, but neither of them has committed
fully yet. According to Russian resources, the LFI will be able
to counter U.S. second fifth-generation Joint Strike Fighter (JSF)Stealth and thrust vectoring are two must-have features
in all aircraft being designed in the 21st century. If is not clear
that how much progress Chinese designers have made in these areas,
and Chinese aircraft industry may have to take Western/Israeli/Russian
helps to make the J-XX truly fouth-generation (or fifth-generation
using the Russian standards). Once introduced, the J-12's immediate
rival will be U.S. F/A-22, JSF and India's MCA
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