...the first hard evidence of the long-rumored Chengdu J-20, China’s first stealth-fighter prototype…..

Fantastical Photoshop art is a hallmark of Chinese military-themed websites…..

“Rumor has it that better shots have put in transient appearances on Chinese Websites before being zapped by the censor,” Sweetman wrote…



J-20




The airplane depicted in the snapshots apparently has many of the right characteristics for a fifth-generation stealth-fighter prototype…

Secretary of Defense Robert Gates acknowledged that the Chinese were working on a stealth fighter, but insisted the Communist country would have no fifth-generation aircraft 
by 2020..

J-20 might have “lower supercruise performance and agility than an F-22, but with larger weapon bays and more fuel…

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