Recently, the CCTV military channel focused on the "Wang Hai Brigade" of the first batch of J-20 fifth-generation ** fighters in our army. The J-20 pilots of the group were interviewed by reporters and said that they had always firmly grasped the initiative in many battles with foreign forces in the J-20 fighters.
What does this mean? The so-called "foreign forces" actually refer to the US military stationed at bases in Japan, South Korea and other countries, and the only competition with our J-20 is F-22 and F-35.
As we all know, we have always been more subtle when expressing our stance to the outside world, and this time the J-20 pilots "grasped the active situation" in the confrontation with the US military, to put it bluntly, they strongly suppressed the enemy aircraft, whether it was F-22 or F-35, they were not opponents!
The Wang Hai Brigade is an ace contingent of our Air Force, and this brigade has made great contributions on the battlefield of resisting US aggression and aiding Korea. More than 70 years ago, Wang Hai, the first captain of the Wang Hai Brigade, twice led the team to fight in Korea, fought fiercely with the US Air Force, known as the "world ace," fought more than 80 fierce battles, shot down 29 enemy planes, and made great achievements.
Today, as the first batch of combat units of the Air Force to reorganize and reequip the J-20, the Wang Hai Brigade is still our trump card brigade. Whenever they encountered a provocation from a foreign army, they always drove their fighters to the forefront.
Around our country, the enemy aircraft worthy of the J-20 sortie, in addition to the F-22, are the F-35.
Although the F-22 is globally recognized as the world's first fifth-generation aircraft, after all, it is "old", from the first flight in 1997 to the present, it has been almost 30 years, and many technologies that seemed advanced at that time have also lagged behind.
Compared with the F-22, the J-20 has a very obvious late-mover advantage. In the development process of the J-20, China's scientific researchers adopted a full three-dimensional digital design, which not only greatly shortened the development cycle, but also optimized and iterated its overall structure, reducing the weight of its empty aircraft to about 15 tons and greatly increasing the available load.
In addition, the J-20's avionics level, stealth performance and cooperative combat capabilities surpass those of the American F-22.
In addition to the F-22, another American fifth-generation aircraft, the F-35, is even less worth mentioning. The background of the birth of the F-35 is that because the US authorities think that the F-22 is too expensive, they have brought in more than a dozen so-called "allies" to jointly fund the development of a reduced version of the fifth-generation aircraft - F-35.
As a single-engine medium and light fifth-generation aircraft, the F-35 is unsatisfactory in all aspects, whether it is stealth, payload, maximum range and horsepower, etc., it is difficult to match the F-22, not to mention our J-20.
Therefore, it is completely expected that the J-20 has an advantage in the course of the confrontation with the American F-22 and F-35.
From its first flight in 2011 to the present, our J-20 has also undergone many improvements and upgrades, and has derived a number of models, especially in terms of power system, which can be called a rebirth.
The initial version of the J-20 was equipped with Russian-made AL-31F engines, which were mainly used for flight tests and various performance tests, and the production number was very limited. Later, the J-20 was replaced with a domestic WS-10 engine, and the overall performance was improved.
In addition, we have developed the world's first two-seat fifth-generation aircraft, the J-20S, based on the J-20, as well as an improved version of the J-20B.
The J-20 with the WS-15 engine is called the full-body J-20. The WS-15 engine is a small bypass ratio thrust vector turbofan engine specially tailored for the J-20, and its thrust-to-weight ratio reaches 1081, the maximum afterburner thrust reached 185 tons.
It can be said that the WS-15 engine makes up for the last shortcoming of the J-20, allowing it to exert its strongest combat effectiveness.
In the near future, with the continuous iteration and upgrading of new technologies, the J-20 can also be used with the Attack-11 unmanned wingman to achieve cooperative operations, thereby changing the existing air combat mode.
If we were in catch-up mode before the fourth generation, then by the fifth generation, we have finally surpassed it. J-20 fighter