China's fifth-generation fighter program is more for effect than substance, Russia's leading aircraft maker said on Monday.
China carried out it's first test-flight of a fifth-generation stealth fighter in January.
"It was more a demonstration than a real program," Mikhail Pogosyan, head of United Aircraft Corporation, said.
The Chinese aircraft industry is developing successfully but it lacks what is required for a breakthrough, he said.
"There will be no breakthroughs here. Great scale and great experience are needed to carry out such programs," Pogosyan said.
Russia is testing it's own fifth-generation aircraft T-50 PAKFA developed by the Sukhoi design bureau in collaboration with India. The aircraft is expected to become operational in 2015. The T-50 is the only aircraft in the world to match up with the American F-22 Raptor.
China's prototype Black Silk J-20 stealth fighter is said to be similar to the U.S. F-22 Raptor and the Indian-Russian T-50 jets. But that is not true. It takes years of RnD and wide scale experience in aircraft development which China clearly lacks. The imagery and video footage appearing on the internet of Chinese fighter model is larger than anticipated which means the jet could be capable of flying a longer range and carrying a heavier load.
China has been working on a future fighter program since the mid-1990's, and the J-20 is notionally anticipated to enter service around 2018-2020. The United States is the only country in the world to have a proven technology in stealth planes followed by Russia in the recent years during the development of the T-50 fighter jet.
It took more than a decade for the United States which has the world's most hi-tech industrial base to build the F-22. The world wonders how the Chinese built their stealth fighter which they claim can match up to the F-22 Raptor.
China carried out it's first test-flight of a fifth-generation stealth fighter in January.
"It was more a demonstration than a real program," Mikhail Pogosyan, head of United Aircraft Corporation, said.
The Chinese aircraft industry is developing successfully but it lacks what is required for a breakthrough, he said.
"There will be no breakthroughs here. Great scale and great experience are needed to carry out such programs," Pogosyan said.
Russia is testing it's own fifth-generation aircraft T-50 PAKFA developed by the Sukhoi design bureau in collaboration with India. The aircraft is expected to become operational in 2015. The T-50 is the only aircraft in the world to match up with the American F-22 Raptor.
China's prototype Black Silk J-20 stealth fighter is said to be similar to the U.S. F-22 Raptor and the Indian-Russian T-50 jets. But that is not true. It takes years of RnD and wide scale experience in aircraft development which China clearly lacks. The imagery and video footage appearing on the internet of Chinese fighter model is larger than anticipated which means the jet could be capable of flying a longer range and carrying a heavier load.
China has been working on a future fighter program since the mid-1990's, and the J-20 is notionally anticipated to enter service around 2018-2020. The United States is the only country in the world to have a proven technology in stealth planes followed by Russia in the recent years during the development of the T-50 fighter jet.
It took more than a decade for the United States which has the world's most hi-tech industrial base to build the F-22. The world wonders how the Chinese built their stealth fighter which they claim can match up to the F-22 Raptor.
