Yang Wei from AVIC, who is the chief designer of China's J-20 stealth fighter, told the CCTV news reporter that China's future gen fighter after J-20, will be something you may or may not even heard from sci-fi movie, like the transformers or others.
Meanwhile it is believed in SAC this year, there is a near-space hyper sonic vehicle has been successfully flight, such vehicle could be a testbed for China's future fighters/bombers.
This topic belongs on a computer forum b/c all current 5th gen stealth fighters in the world arose from supercomputer simulations.
A few interesting facts people may not be aware of:
1. The F-22 Raptor is powered by twin +180kN engines. Only the 5 permanent members of the UNSC have the technical know how to produce a +140kN thrust turbofan engine. That means if Japan (who isn't part of this elite group) ever tried to produce a stealth fighter, its engines will be severely underpowered compared to its peers.
2. China is the second country in the world to have a 5th gen stealth fighter (the Chengdu J-20 "Dragon Fighter") in active service behind the USA. Russia's T-50 Pak-Fa is still at least a decade away from being put into service.
3. USA currently has no prototype plans for a 6th stealth fighter, yet. China already said they will soon unveil a sci-fi like 6th gen stealthy bird.
4. China is leading the arms race over the USA in these areas: 1. EM rail guns (the Chinese ones are more advanced than American), 2. Hypersonic glide vehicles for nuclear warhead dellivery (USA HGV program is currently deemed a failure), 3. The only country in the world to have a miniaturized H-bomb in stock/storage (Chinese don't have lust for blood shedding aka Hiroshima/Nagasaki, so it's only fitting for them to have the world's only mini H-bomb b/c they won't use it willingly, even against the Japanese, unlike the nukes that were dropped in WW-II).
5. These indications seem to point to a Chinese 6th gen stealth plane that will make America green with envy...
(BTW, for a quick low-down of the J-20, which has only been put into active service beginning this month, go here: http://www.spcnet.tv/forums/showthread.php/40083-AVATAR-Anthology-(Avatar-1-2-3-4-5-etc-)/page3)
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