As we all know, with the progress of the times, the most popular main fighter jets in my country's air force sequence are the J20, J16 and J10C fighter , which are known as the "Three Musketeers in the Air". With its excellent aerodynamic layout and excellent comprehensive avionics system, the J-20 and J-16 fighter have always been the focus of the US military's Pentagon . However, since its service and since then, my country has never released any news about the specific service number of these two fighters, . Therefore, in the past period of time, many domestic and foreign media have basically followed the crowd on the specific service number of these two fighters.
However, the specific numbers of the J-20 and J-16 fighter jets exhibited at the 14th Zhuhai Air Show inadvertently attracted the attention of many industry insiders. Because according to the numbering rules of the Chinese Air Force fighter, the number of J20 and J16 heavy fighter in service in my country's Air Force has reached a considerable scale, and it may even exceed the US military's F22 stealth fighter and F-15E heavy fighter. This also indirectly reflects that the strength of the main force of my country's air force, heavy fighter, , is likely to have become the well-deserved "king of the world".
From the on-site pictures, the cockpits of the two J20 fighters exhibited statically for the first time at this Zhuhai Air Show are printed with the production serial numbers of CB0369 and CB0370 respectively. According to the numbering rules of , the first half of the serial numbers CB03 represents the third batch of mass-produced models of these two J20s belong to this type of fighter, and the final numbers 69 and 70 represent the 69th and 70th of these two J20 fighters belong to the 69th and 70th of the third batch respectively. In other words, in this batch of mass production, the production volume of J-20 will definitely not be less than 70 aircraft. With the number of the first and second batches, the specific service number of J-20 fighters in my country's Air Force is likely to have reached more than 200 aircraft.
In addition, the serial number of the J-16 fighter exhibited in this air show also reached 1105. Judging from the production serial number rules previously compiled by Shenyang Aircraft Group, this J-16 fighter is obviously the fifth J-16 produced in the 11th batch of Shenyang Aircraft Group. According to the practice of producing 24 fighters in batches of Shenfei and , the number of J-16 heavy fighters currently in service in the People's Liberation Army should not be less than 245.
That is to say, in terms of the number of heavy stealth fighters and heavy third-generation and a half fighters, the minimum number of the People's Liberation Army is very likely to reach about 500, which means that in terms of the scale of heavy main fighters, my country's air force is currently at the forefront of the world. You should know that in the field of heavy stealth fighter, the most powerful ones are F-22, J-20 and Su 57. Among them, the US military's F22 fighter has been mass-produced earlier, and the equipped IFDI inter-machine data link system only supports it to share the situation within the F22 formation. Therefore, this type of fighter is also nicknamed "information island". In addition, this type of fighter is not equipped with photoelectric distributed aperture system and photoelectric tracking and aiming system, and its information perception capabilities have gradually fallen behind the times. This is also true. The US Air Force is expected to retire 33 F22 fighters in one go by in 2023, and the scale of the US Air Force's heavy stealth fighter jets will be reduced to about 150.
. In Russia, although the fifth-generation Su57 stealth fighter has been in its first flight for 12 years, due to technical problems and limited national defense budget, the Su57 stealth fighter that has truly entered service still has only single digits. Moreover, according to the information released by the Russian Ministry of Defense, by 2028, the Russian Aerospace Forces have only purchased 76 Su-57 stealth fighters. Therefore, in the field of heavy stealth fighter jets, the PLA's J-20 fighter jets have obviously occupied a great scale advantage.
Following F22, Los Angeles Martin launched a single-engine medium-sized fighter called F-35. With its excellent battlefield situational awareness capabilities and cost-effective advantages, the US military plans to complete the goal of purchasing 1,200 F35 fighter by 2035.
As we all know, with the progress of the times, the most popular main fighter jets in my country's air force sequence are the J20, J16 and J10C fighter , which are known as the "Three Musketeers in the Air". With its excellent aerodynamic layout and excellent comprehensive avionics system, the J-20 and J-16 fighter have always been the focus of the US military's Pentagon . However, since its service and since then, my country has never released any news about the specific service number of these two fighters, . Therefore, in the past period of time, many domestic and foreign media have basically followed the crowd on the specific service number of these two fighters.
However, the specific numbers of the J-20 and J-16 fighter jets exhibited at the 14th Zhuhai Air Show inadvertently attracted the attention of many industry insiders. Because according to the numbering rules of the Chinese Air Force fighter, the number of J20 and J16 heavy fighter in service in my country's Air Force has reached a considerable scale, and it may even exceed the US military's F22 stealth fighter and F-15E heavy fighter. This also indirectly reflects that the strength of the main force of my country's air force, heavy fighter, , is likely to have become the well-deserved "king of the world".
From the on-site pictures, the cockpits of the two J20 fighters exhibited statically for the first time at this Zhuhai Air Show are printed with the production serial numbers of CB0369 and CB0370 respectively. According to the numbering rules of , the first half of the serial numbers CB03 represents the third batch of mass-produced models of these two J20s belong to this type of fighter, and the final numbers 69 and 70 represent the 69th and 70th of these two J20 fighters belong to the 69th and 70th of the third batch respectively. In other words, in this batch of mass production, the production volume of J-20 will definitely not be less than 70 aircraft. With the number of the first and second batches, the specific service number of J-20 fighters in my country's Air Force is likely to have reached more than 200 aircraft.
In addition, the serial number of the J-16 fighter exhibited in this air show also reached 1105. Judging from the production serial number rules previously compiled by Shenyang Aircraft Group, this J-16 fighter is obviously the fifth J-16 produced in the 11th batch of Shenyang Aircraft Group. According to the practice of producing 24 fighters in batches of Shenfei and , the number of J-16 heavy fighters currently in service in the People's Liberation Army should not be less than 245.
That is to say, in terms of the number of heavy stealth fighters and heavy third-generation and a half fighters, the minimum number of the People's Liberation Army is very likely to reach about 500, which means that in terms of the scale of heavy main fighters, my country's air force is currently at the forefront of the world. You should know that in the field of heavy stealth fighter, the most powerful ones are F-22, J-20 and Su 57. Among them, the US military's F22 fighter has been mass-produced earlier, and the equipped IFDI inter-machine data link system only supports it to share the situation within the F22 formation. Therefore, this type of fighter is also nicknamed "information island". In addition, this type of fighter is not equipped with photoelectric distributed aperture system and photoelectric tracking and aiming system, and its information perception capabilities have gradually fallen behind the times. This is also true. The US Air Force is expected to retire 33 F22 fighters in one go by in 2023, and the scale of the US Air Force's heavy stealth fighter jets will be reduced to about 150.
. In Russia, although the fifth-generation Su57 stealth fighter has been in its first flight for 12 years, due to technical problems and limited national defense budget, the Su57 stealth fighter that has truly entered service still has only single digits. Moreover, according to the information released by the Russian Ministry of Defense, by 2028, the Russian Aerospace Forces have only purchased 76 Su-57 stealth fighters. Therefore, in the field of heavy stealth fighter jets, the PLA's J-20 fighter jets have obviously occupied a great scale advantage.
Following F22, Los Angeles Martin launched a single-engine medium-sized fighter called F-35. With its excellent battlefield situational awareness capabilities and cost-effective advantages, the US military plans to complete the goal of purchasing 1,200 F35 fighter by 2035.And so far, the number of F-35A stealth fighters purchased by the US Air Force has reached about 300. Theoretically, stealth fighters like the F-35A in modern air combat should have overwhelming advantages in dealing with conventional fighters. However, during the internal testing of the US military, it was revealed that the F-35 stealth fighter was defeated by an F-16D fighter with two secondary fuel tanks. That's why former chairman of the US Senate Armed Services Committee McCain once sighed: In my eyes, F35, which even F16 cannot beat, is a scandal.
Moreover, according to the annual evaluation report of F-35 fighter jet released by the Pentagon, the F35 fighter still has 13 fatal flaws. Moreover, compared with the J-20 heavy fighter of the People's Liberation Army, the F35 fighter also has the defects of short combat radius and short range. Therefore, in terms of the development of advanced stealth fighters, the PLA J-20 has obviously entered the world's first echelon.
. In the field of heavy fourth-generation and a half-generation fighter jets, the most representative ones are the Russian Aerospace Army's Su 35S, the People's Liberation Army's J-16 and the US F-15E/EX fighter jets. So far, the total number of Su35 fighter is about 149, and the US military has 215 F-15E fighter jets and 2 latest and improved F-15EX fighter jets. According to the US Air Force's procurement plan, a total of about 144 F-15EX fighter jets will be purchased in the future. In terms of the scale of this series of fighters, both the Russian Su-35S fighter and the US F-15E/EX fighter may not be able to reach the scale of the People's Liberation Army J-16.
In terms of performance, since the J-16 fighter is equipped with the same active phased array radar system and comprehensive avionics system as the J-20 stealth fighter , its over-visual air combat capability is significantly stronger than the Su-35S fighter that is still using the passive phased array radar system. With the development of domestic electronic warfare confrontation technology, my country has also developed another electronic warfare fighter after the EA-18G "Growler" based on the J-16. In actual combat, this type of fighter can not only meet its own electronic warfare needs, but also implement large-scale electromagnetic interference and suppression on enemy land, sea and air targets. This is also true. During the Zhuhai Air Show, Russian Sukhoi exhibitors took photos of the J-16 series fighter jets almost at 360 degrees without dead angles.
Compared with the heavy multi-purpose fighter currently in service by the US military, both of which are my country's J-16 and the US F-15E have a maximum ammunition load of more than 10 tons, and the effective combat radius can reach more than 1,500 kilometers. So many overseas experts are accustomed to using the difficult word Zhongbo to describe the overall combat power of the J-16 and the F-15E. You should know that although the F-15E fighter was in service early, since 2008, the United States has successively replaced the F-15E fighter with more advanced APG-82 active phased array radar. The radar is a combination of the US F/A18E/F Super Hornet fighter airborne APG-79 radar processor and APG-63 (V)3 active phased radar antenna, which has directly jumped to the fourth and a half generations of the fighter's comprehensive combat capability. This is true for
. The current statement that the J-16's comprehensive combat power is basically the same as the US F15E is not groundless. Although the US military subsequently launched the latest F-15EX heavy fighter jet, due to price reasons, the number of F-15EX fighters that are actually in service so far is very small. It is also true that looking at the world, the PLA currently has a bit of a leading role in the scale and strength of heavy fighter jets.
summary: With the development of domestic aviation industry strength, after the J-20 and J-16, the People's Liberation Army will also be expected to serve the updated two-seat J-20S fighter, J-16 modification, and J-35 stealth fighter that has completed its first flight. Moreover, during this air show, my country also displayed a high-profile FH-97A drone known as the "loyal wingman" of the J-20. For the Chinese Air Force, this means that the era of manned aircraft and drone has arrived. In addition to the J-20 fighter jets and J-16 fighter jets that have been in service in large quantities, the PLA has obviously reached the level of "the king of the world" in the field of heavy main fighter jets.
