As for the production line of fighters, which country is not hiding it, for fear of technology leakage, let alone the production line of advanced fighters.
This time, my country will make a public appearance, there is only one reason, the technology that is out of reach in the eyes of many countries is no longer the top here.
Now, CCTV for the first time publicly displayed the production line of the second domestic fifth-generation aircraft J-35, which may be releasing this signal, in the latest episode of the CCTV National Defense Military Channel's "Sharpening the Sword" program, the production and manufacturing process of the J-35 stealth fighter was carried out for the first time.
It was a "yellow-skinned" J-35 without any logo, and the fuselage and nose were being docked and closed in the production workshop, and a number of workers and technicians were devoting themselves to their work. This is an extremely rare practice, which speaks volumes about our technical confidence.
In fact, China not only publicly displayed the J-35 production line, just earlier this year, CCTV's "Sharpening the Sword" program also publicly displayed the production workshop of the first domestic fifth-generation aircraft J-20, which dared to show the advanced fighter production line in the official form in the world.
China's courage to publicly unveil the fifth-generation aircraft production line shows that the design, technology, and production process seen by the public are no longer at the highest level of secrecy fighter technology.
J-20 chief engineer Yang Wei has already confirmed the beginning of the development of the "sixth-generation fighter" in China, as well as the United States experts and think tanks said, "China may test fly the sixth-generation aircraft in 2025 and achieve mass service around 2030", so it seems that the J-20 and J-35 The production workshops of the two fifth-generation aircraft have been made public, indicating that we have made great progress in the domestic sixth-generation aircraft, and it is even very close to coming up with the finished product.
The advent of the J-20 has made us close to the United States, stepping into the first echelon, becoming one of the only four fifth-generation aircraft in service in the world, and the emergence of the J-35 allows us to further flatten the United States, making China the second country in the world with two domestic fifth-generation aircraft at the same time.
Today, our domestic fighter industry has basically caught up with the United States in terms of technology, so tomorrow it will naturally go hand in hand and strive to no longer have a time lag with the United States in the research and development of the sixth-generation fighter, and even achieve a local surpass in terms of service time and equipment performance to a certain extent.
No one can always be the first, the United States opened the door to the fifth-generation fighter with F22, which has become the only yardstick for the performance of fifth-generation fighters in various countries, so what about the era of sixth-generation fighters?Will the NGAD fighter project, which the United States is advancing, be the first?
Who will hammer the standard of performance of the sixth-generation fighter that the world thinks?It's really hard to say this time, I'm afraid that one China will have to be added to the first battle.