Original title: The Indian media “questioned” the record of the J-20 again
Recently, the video of the Chinese Air Force J-20 stealth fighter launching a fierce aerial confrontation exercise on the first training day of the new year has not only been swiped in the military fan circle, but also attracted the attention of overseas media.
Of course, there are always some foreign baristas who take the opportunity to jump out and “challenge”. For example, India’s “Eurasia Times” on the 10th believed that these developments of the J-20 were false propaganda. “We have good reasons not to believe the Chinese media’s statement.”
Citing videos and sources released by Chinese state media, the report said the PLA Air Force conducted extensive simulated confrontation training with the J-20 stealth fighter to gauge the fifth-generation fighter’s advantage over other non-stealth fighters such as the J-11B and J-16. .
“The exercise aims to demonstrate the combat readiness of the J-20, China’s most advanced fighter jet. On the first day of the 2022 training day, a brigade of the Air Force of the PLA Northern Theater Command conducted an aerial confrontation exercise, and both sides dispatched to obtain ‘golden helmets’ The title of ace pilot.”
CCTV reports on the J-20 fighter jets participating in the confrontation exercise
Two J-20 fighter jets equipped with Lumbo lenses are said to have engaged in aerial engagements with “an unspecified number of non-stealth fighter jets.” The Lumbo lens can increase the radar reflection area of the aircraft, so that stealth aircraft can be detected by radar. A Chinese expert said that this means that the J-20 gives up its stealth advantage and focuses on training other skills. “In a real battle, a powerful adversary may develop a technology to detect stealth aircraft, so this This kind of training is crucial.”
According to the report, the two J-20s fought fiercely with their opponents in a complex electromagnetic environment. After a series of tactical maneuvers, a J-20 and an “enemy aircraft” confronted each other. Relying on high-G maneuvers to escape the attack. However, the J-20 pilots cleverly took advantage of the aircraft’s performance and ultimately won.
The Eurasian Times also mentioned that, according to reports by Chinese state media, a similar exercise was conducted at another Chinese Air Force training base. A variety of fighter jets, including the J-20 and J-16 fighter jets, practiced simulated aerial combat and live-fire strikes against ground targets. “Two J-20s and two J-16s conducted simulated battles, but the results were not disclosed.”
Military experts said that the large-scale simulated air combat exercises of multiple PLA units demonstrated the high level of combat readiness of the J-20, while other fighters also had the opportunity to learn how to deal with opponents stronger than themselves by confronting the J-20.
In the view of Eurasia Times, Chinese media has a special purpose for the propaganda of the J-20 stealth fighter. According to the report, as early as 2020, the People’s Liberation Army Daily revealed in a report that a J-20 fighter jet, which had just been delivered, shot down 17 “enemy aircraft” in a simulated air battle. The report believes that at that time, China promoted the air superiority of the J-20 because the tension between China and India in the so-called “Ladakh” area increased at that time, and the Chinese Air Force dispatched at least two J-20 fighter jets to the Sino-Indian border area. Therefore, the Chinese media’s promotion of the combat effectiveness of the J-20 “is Beijing’s propaganda and psychological warfare against the Indian military.”
The J-20 showing the bomb bay at the Zhuhai Air Show
“Eurasia Times” thus declared, “We have good reasons not to believe the Chinese media’s statement.” The report especially took the 2020 report as an example, saying that the internal bomb bay of the J-20 can only carry 8 missiles (sic, the old driver explained that it is usually believed that the internal bomb bay of the J-20 can hold 6 missiles), and Without cannons, it’s hard to imagine how a single J-20 could shoot down 17 “enemy planes” in a simulated air battle.
Is the “Eurasia Times” question justified? The old driver checked, and the report mentioned by the Indian media was “The “Ace in the Air” is now even sharper” published by the People’s Liberation Army Daily. In the simulated confrontation, through the flexible cooperation with the comrades, the pilot of the new modified fighter successfully achieved an excellent record of “shooting down” 17 enemy planes. .”
Since the “Wang Hai Brigade” is the first unit of the Chinese Air Force to replace the J-20 fighter, the outside world generally believes that the new fighter mentioned in the report refers to the J-20. As for how the J-20 can achieve the amazing record of “shooting down 17 enemy planes” in simulated air combat? In fact, it has already caused a heated discussion in the outside world.
We don’t need to explain our own explanation, lest the Eurasia Times say it is “the Chinese media continues to brag.” Take a look at the analysis of the US “Forbes” website at that time.
The report said that although the Chinese media did not mention the “enemy” type shot down by the J-20 in their reports, it is likely to be a derivative of the Su-27 fighter jet. This surprising result of air combat between old and new fighters is not without precedent. In 1976, the U.S. Navy F-14 fighter achieved an amazing record of 176:0 in the confrontation exercise with the French fighter. When the U.S. Air Force F-22 stealth fighter first entered service, it also dominated the air with a record of 144:0 in the “Northern Blade” simulated confrontation training at Eldomonf Air Force Base, Alaska in 2006.
As for how the J-20 with limited ammunition can shoot down “17 enemy planes”, Forbes believes that this may be related to the rules of the exercise. The two sides are likely to clearly stipulate in the exercise rules that the J-20 pilots can be reloaded with “simulated ammunition” after fighting for a period of time.
In fact, considering the high cost of dispatching fighters to organize air confrontation, in order to make full use of the exercise time, in the simulated confrontation, it is allowed to reload “simulated ammunition”, or to determine the shot down based on the number of times the opponent is successfully locked in a fixed airspace and time. are very common rules of engagement.
If you say that, do you feel that the truth is revealed?
The old driver finally wanted to say that considering that India does not yet have a stealth fighter, it is impossible to appreciate the revolutionary impact of this advanced fighter on future air combat, so the “question” of the Indian media should be regarded as their “envy, jealousy and hatred”.
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