{"id":4571,"date":"2018-12-09T11:15:31","date_gmt":"2018-12-09T11:15:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/?p=4571"},"modified":"2018-12-09T11:15:31","modified_gmt":"2018-12-09T11:15:31","slug":"chinas-stealth-fighter-its-time-to-discuss-j-20s-agility","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/2018\/12\/09\/chinas-stealth-fighter-its-time-to-discuss-j-20s-agility\/","title":{"rendered":"CHINA\u2019S STEALTH FIGHTER: IT\u2019S TIME TO DISCUSS J-20\u2019S AGILITY"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2017\/12\/J-20_at_Airshow_China_2016.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-2812\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2017\/12\/J-20_at_Airshow_China_2016-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"560\" height=\"374\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2017\/12\/J-20_at_Airshow_China_2016-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2017\/12\/J-20_at_Airshow_China_2016-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2017\/12\/J-20_at_Airshow_China_2016-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2017\/12\/J-20_at_Airshow_China_2016-560x374.jpg 560w, https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2017\/12\/J-20_at_Airshow_China_2016-260x173.jpg 260w, https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2017\/12\/J-20_at_Airshow_China_2016-160x107.jpg 160w, https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2017\/12\/J-20_at_Airshow_China_2016.jpg 1199w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 560px) 100vw, 560px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source: The Diplomat<\/p>\n<p>By Rick Joe<\/p>\n<p>When the Chinese J-20 stealth fighter was revealed nearly nine years ago, speculation was rife about its role and mission upon entering service in the People\u2019s Liberation Army Air Force (PLAAF).<\/p>\n<p>In English language defense media, the most highly circulated and popular theories suggested it was a dedicated interceptor aircraft intended to destroy force multipliers like tanker aircraft or airborne early warning and control (AEW&amp;C) aircraft, or a dedicated long-range strike aircraft akin to a modern F-111.<\/p>\n<p>However, other similarly sized stealth aircraft like the U.S. F-22 and Russian Su-57 are widely accepted to be air superiority fighters with secondary interceptor and strike roles, and even aircraft like F-35 are intended to field serviceable air superiority characteristics.<\/p>\n<p>Some arguments backing up J-20\u2019s interceptor\/strike theory is doctrine driven, suggesting the J-20 was intended to specifically operate in the PLA\u2019s so-called \u201canti-access, area denial\u201d strategy. However, this is unconvincing, because such a doctrine would still hold a place for air superiority fighters.<\/p>\n<p>Read more at: https:\/\/thediplomat.com\/2018\/12\/chinas-stealth-fighter-its-time-to-discuss-j-20s-agility\/<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: The Diplomat By Rick Joe When the Chinese J-20 stealth fighter was revealed nearly nine years ago, speculation was rife about its role and mission upon entering service in the People\u2019s Liberation Army Air Force (PLAAF). In English language defense media, the most highly circulated and popular theories suggested it was a dedicated interceptor&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/2018\/12\/09\/chinas-stealth-fighter-its-time-to-discuss-j-20s-agility\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">CHINA\u2019S STEALTH FIGHTER: IT\u2019S TIME TO DISCUSS J-20\u2019S AGILITY<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2812,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4571","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-defence-industry","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4571","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4571"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4571\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4572,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4571\/revisions\/4572"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2812"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4571"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4571"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4571"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}