The Chinese J-20 Stealth Aircraft: Could It Become A Game-changer?

The Chinese J-20 Stealth Aircraft: Could It Become A Game-changer?: "At around 1300hrs local time on Tuesday 11 January 2011, the new Chinese designed and built stealth aircraft known as the J-XX, or J-20 as it has become known in the West, took off for an 18 minute maiden flight around the airfield where it was built at Chengdu in Sichuan province, China.

Since the Chinese have released no significant information about this aircraft, some commentators have wondered if it is a prototype of an aircraft the Chinese hope to put into production or is merely a demonstrator or proof of concept aircraft. All indications thus far point to the aircraft being – pending successful testing and results – a prototype of an aircraft the Chinese plan to develop for production.

The first indicator is the fact that two prototypes have been built. Since, even by Chinese cost standards, these machines are very expensive to design and build they have shown that there is much more to this project than mere sophisticated experimentation."