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Assessing the J-35A: The Chinese Air Force’s New Stealth Fighter
After its official reveal at the Zhuhai Airshow, what do we know about China’s new fifth-generation fighter?
It possesses a conventional wing and tail configuration, with the usual hallmarks of a stealthy fifth-generation aircraft such as edge alignment, chines, serrated paneling and doors, and a relatively smooth external finish. Therefore, in the plausible event that J-20/A procurement for the rest of this decade occurs at 100 or more airframes per year (with a potential ceiling rate of 150), the idea of producing additional fifth-generation fighters on top of this seems rather ambitious. As a concluding remark regarding next generation developments, an openly fictional, anime-esque mockup (the “White Emperor”) shown for public engagement at Zhuhai Airshow this year has unfortunately resulted in multiplearticleswritten by authors under the impression it is a legitimate next-generation aircraft project.
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