As the J-20 fighter jet is replaced with domestic engines, this most advanced fighter jet in my country has finally entered the mass production stage. After all the five major war zones are replaced with this fighter jet, the production is still increasing. It will be able to surpass the number of the US fighter jets of the same type F22 in a few years. At this time, the US media were not very worried about this situation. It turned out to be US Air Force Secretary Kendall delivered a speech not long ago. In this speech, he said that the US military's sixth-generation aircraft plan (NGAD) is close to actual results. "We are studying the actual design of this fighter, which means that this fighter is in the engineering and manufacturing development stage. Next, the NGAD project will review its design and verify its technical feasibility. Therefore, if this fighter wants to achieve mass production, it may take several years."
It is the upcoming birth of this sixth-generation aircraft that makes the US media feel that China's J-20 is not that important no matter how many of it is. As an air superiority fighter used to replace F22 fighter , NGAD has to surpass F22 in performance; especially the avionics used, F22 is born too old, which makes the avionics equipped on it old, even F35 worse than F35. After learning this lesson, the US military will carry the most advanced avionics equipment on this fighter, and will incorporate the concept of "loyal wingman" to use the artificial intelligence on the fighter to control the drone, so that the NGAD fighter can receive up to 5 formations of drone systems, send data and control it, so as to use its stealth ability to break through the enemy's air defense system to launch ammunition for strikes, or use these drones to strike, making the strike firepower more fierce.
UAV controlled by NGAD fighter can be divided into three parts to perform tasks. Some are responsible for carrying some electronic warfare devices, obtaining enemy position information and conducting electronic confrontation; some act as bait to go deep into the enemy area to attract enemy air defense firepower to strike. When the enemy's air defense firepower strikes the second part of the drone, the first part of the drone equipped with an electronic warfare system can exert its electronic warfare capabilities, so that the enemy's air defense firepower is paralyzed and the target position is located; at this time, the third part of the drone is about to come on the field. This part of the drone is filled with missiles outside the defense zone, and relies on the target position provided by advanced avionics equipment + to strike the enemy's air defense firepower and destroy the enemy's air defense system. Simply put, these drones that act as "loyal wingmen" are the combat power multipliers of NGAD fighter jets. With the cooperation of the two, they produce an effect of 1+1 greater than 2, so that every drone except the fighter can pose a huge threat to the enemy. Such a drone that controls multiple formations of NGAD can pose such a great threat to the enemy. If it is 100 aircraft, the threat can be caused even greater. It can even form a swarm-type combat formation to launch a overwhelming strike against the enemy.
However, because this technology is too complex, NGAD may have to wait until the end of this century to implement this function. However, this also has some benefits for this fighter, because artificial intelligence and aerospace technology are developing rapidly now, and in the future, the "loyal wingman" will have more functions, which will make NGAD's combat power stronger. However, due to the continuous advancement of new technologies, the price of this fighter is high. Compared with the F35's lowest price of 80 million US dollars, each NGAD needs hundreds of millions of dollars, and it will even have US$1.3 billion in next year's fiscal budget to build a prototype of this fighter for various tests; but compared with other advanced equipment, this seems very cheap. For example, building an Ford-class aircraft carrier requires a sky-high price of tens of billions of dollars, and this equipment may not necessarily play a role in facing China, because they have the Dongfeng 21D, which specializes in dealing with the aircraft carrier ; the price of B2 is as high as 2.4 billion, and it is not possible to fly supersonic . It is easy to be shot down with the cooperation of modern air defense missiles and radar .
Kendall believes that the existing Air Force fighter jets of the US military cannot deal with China at all, because China's J-20 is being built in large quantities, and they are still constantly upgrading and renovating this fighter. No matter how the US F22 is upgraded, it can play a great role due to the suspension of production. The only energy-producing F35 still has some problems from time to time, and is not a match for the J-20 in air combat. In order to continue to maintain the air superiority of the US Air Force, the NGAD fighter project is a must-investment by the US military. Now that the NGAD project is about to succeed, the US Air Force has regained its disadvantage in the competition with China, proving how correct this decision is. However, it is still a bit too early for the Air Force Minister to say that. The NGAD project is still in the PPT stage. Whether it can pass technical verification is still a different matter. I am just sure that my fighter jets can be completed in one step from design to finalization to mass production. Will it be a failure to defeat the J-20 in the conflict that may break out in the next ten years? It's a bit too natural.
Kendall believes that the existing Air Force fighter jets of the US military cannot deal with China at all, because China's J-20 is being built in large quantities, and they are still constantly upgrading and renovating this fighter. No matter how the US F22 is upgraded, it can play a great role due to the suspension of production. The only energy-producing F35 still has some problems from time to time, and is not a match for the J-20 in air combat. In order to continue to maintain the air superiority of the US Air Force, the NGAD fighter project is a must-investment by the US military. Now that the NGAD project is about to succeed, the US Air Force has regained its disadvantage in the competition with China, proving how correct this decision is. However, it is still a bit too early for the Air Force Minister to say that. The NGAD project is still in the PPT stage. Whether it can pass technical verification is still a different matter. I am just sure that my fighter jets can be completed in one step from design to finalization to mass production. Will it be a failure to defeat the J-20 in the conflict that may break out in the next ten years? It's a bit too natural.
