JH-XX is just a code name as the aircraft does not exist yet. But Western intelligence reports give us an idea about what the PLAAF wants from its new bomber program. Meanwhile, China likely has strategic and tactical objectives that include having a regional stealth bomber in its fleet by 2025.
A recent report about a senior U.S. military officer who publicly stated that the much-feared, much-vaunted J-20 ain’t all it’s cracked up to be is making waves.
While China has the J-20 Mighty Dragon fighter with stealth characteristics, it will be the J-10 that China depends on as the focal point of its air force.
The Shenyang J-11 is very obviously the Sukhoi Su-27. China was the first foreign recipient of the Soviet Union’s Su-27 – and the only foreign recipient before the fall off the Soviet Union.