The US military will know how to destroy the fifth generation stealth fighter before China.

The American F-22 stealth fighter is the only active fifth-generation fighter in the world. The U.S. military often uses the fourth-generation fighters such as F-22 and F- 15 for confrontation exercises, and will certainly find the weaknesses of the fifth-generation stealth fighters earlier than other countries and make improvements. (Previously, the U.S. military and American industry listed the F-22 as the fourth-generation fighter after World War II, but it was revised to the fifth-generation fighter last year. )

Xinhuanet 65438+reported on February 4? An article published on the American Defensetech website makes some analysis on China's fifth-generation fighter and American F-22 fighter.

According to the article, in the past years, the game of military balance has been dominated by main battle tanks: how many tanks can NATO equip to prevent the terrible armored blitzkrieg of Warsaw Treaty countries from crossing the northern plains of Germany?

Today, the protagonist of this game has become a five-generation fighter: How many fighters will the United States fight against China? Of course, all this is based on some wrong guesses, because the joint attack fighter plan has been fluctuating, and it is uncertain how many fifth-generation fighters the United States will equip in the next decade, let alone how many China may manufacture.

As we all know, the inventory of China's 5th generation fighters is zero.

For decades, American aircraft manufacturers have been trying to solve complex stealth components, such as radar absorbing coatings and aircraft shapes. The F-22 project began in the 1980s. On June 30th, 1986 and 10, the YF-22 jointly developed by Lockheed, Boeing and General Dynamics won the bid, and two prototypes were manufactured as required.

However, some people think that China is close to mastering the complex problem of stealth on an industrial scale. A recent article in Reuters claimed that China is developing a fifth-generation fighter, which may be able to compete with the F-22 produced by Loma Company in the United States within eight years.

It is based on the testimony of Winnie ullman of the National Aerospace Information Center of the US Air Force before the US-China Economic Security Review Committee of Congress. Ullman told the Committee: "There is no specific one-on-one comparison with the F-22. But it must be that estimate. " Ullman's testimony is still cautious: "The next generation fighter (XXJ) should have combat capability around 20 18." Reuters's article goes on to say that this "intelligence" contradicts the statement made by Secretary of Defense Gates at the Chicago Economic Club last year. Gates said that China "expects that there will be no fifth-generation aircraft before 2020" and there will be "a small number" before 2025.

At the hearing of the same committee, Ke Ruijie of RAND said that the only conclusive evidence of China's fifth-generation fighter was "a photo of the original size prototype of the plane", which had been going on for some time. This is an aircraft with reduced radar reflection area, although it is not at the same level as the stealth fighters F-22 and F-35 of the United States.

Lauren Thompson, a defense analyst and consultant, recently wrote in Diplomat magazine that China still has a long way to go to equip an aircraft equivalent to an F-22. "China not only lacks the necessary experience or relevant technical expertise, but also has never demonstrated the system integration skills needed to integrate all these technologies into a functional fuselage." He went on to say: "Because the US military has invested for decades, it is likely that the PLA will know how to destroy or disable the fifth-generation fighter before it knows how to obstruct the stealth characteristics of its aircraft. Despite its recent economic mistakes, the United States still accounts for half of the world's military expenditure, and its investment in military technology is many times that of China. Therefore, the United States will not only find the answer to the challenge posed by China's tactical aircraft as soon as possible, but also invent ways to repair the weaknesses that China scientists may find in the F-22 defense. "