The characteristic stealth shapes and angles are clearly based on the F22. Their cyber-espionage appears to be paying off.<p><i>'The J-20 has a canard delta layout (like Chengdu’s J-10) with two canted, all-moving vertical stabilizers (like the T-50) and smaller canted ventral fins. The stealth body shaping is similar to that of the F-22. The flat body sides are aligned with the canted tails, the wing-body junction is clean, and there is a sharp chine line around the forward fuselage. The cant angles are greater than they are on the Lockheed Martin F-35, and the frameless canopy is similar to that of the F-22.'</i><p><a href="http://www.aviationweek.com/aw/jsp_includes/articlePrint.jsp?storyID=news/awst/2011/01/03/AW_01_03_2011_p18-279564.xml&headLine=null" rel="nofollow">http://www.aviationweek.com/aw/jsp_includes/articlePrint.jsp...</a>
I like the multiple images here but for some analysis I saw this a couple days ago...<p><a href="http://www.aviationweek.com/aw/jsp_includes/articlePrint.jsp?storyID=news/awst/2011/01/03/AW_01_03_2011_p18-279564.xml&headLine=null" rel="nofollow">http://www.aviationweek.com/aw/jsp_includes/articlePrint.jsp...</a><p>2c, I think the fixation on 4th-Gen, 5th-Gen or whatever is distracting. How fast, how far, How much would be more interesting questions.
One has to wonder that by the time manned stealth air-superiority fighters are deployed, whether they will be operationally inferior to, and greatly outnumbered by, adversary air-superiority fighter UAVs.<p>What a waste of resources on behalf of pilot-dominated air forces.