Recently, India's domestic fighter "Brilliant" MK1A made its first successful flight, and Indian Marshal Anil Chopra said that India's advanced fighter is far ahead of China's J-20, and even China's friend Pakistan is unwilling to patronize.
It's ridiculous to determine whether it's good or bad by sales
Indian Marshal Anil Chopra really belittled for the sake of belittling, and was not even willing to spend some time to understand the cause and effect of the incident.
Pakistan is not reluctant to buy the mainland's J-20, on the contrary, Pakistan's Minister of Home Affairs Sheikh Rashid Ahmed publicly stated as early as 2022 that he wants to purchase the mainland's J-20 to form an air fighter force.
However, the importance of the J-20 on the mainland is the same as that of the F-22 in the United States, and if the sale causes a leak of technology, no one can afford the consequences.
After the purchase request was politely rejected by the mainland, Pakistan focused its military trade on the mainland's foreign trade fighter J-31.
Therefore, the Indian marshal criticized the J-20 for its poor quality and performance through its poor sales, which is simply a fool's dream and ridiculous.
The difference between J-20 and J-31
The biggest difference between J-20 and J-31 is that the design positioning is different, J-20 is a single-seat twin-engine heavy stealth fighter, while J-31 is a medium-sized twin-engine stealth fighter, the former is the United States F-22, and the latter is the United States F-35.
The roles of the two are different, which was also mentioned above, one is for self-use and not for export, and the other is mainly for export purposes.
The J-20 is still in service with the Chinese Air Force, representing the top level of comprehensive capabilities of China's active fighters, and through public data, it is not difficult to analyze that the performance of the J-20 is better than that of the J-31 in all aspects.
Compared with the conventional aerodynamic layout of the J-31, the J-20 adopts a diamond-shaped fuselage and canard wings, and its stealth ability is slightly reduced, but the overall combat power is greatly improved.
The canard wing of the J-20 can produce greater air resistance during landing, which can greatly reduce the length of the rundown required when landing, so that it can land in more places.
Not only that, the canard wing of the J-20 can also produce a detachment vortex, the main role is to interfere with the airflow on the upper surface of the main wing, in order to slow down the speed of airflow separation, thereby increasing the speed of lift-off, making the J-20 more maneuverable.
As a heavy stealth fighter, the engine of the J-20 uses a Russian-made high-thrust engine, which is much better than the medium-thrust engine of the J-31, so the fuselage is slightly larger, the range is long, and the bomb load is large.
Is the "Brilliant" MK1A really that godly?
Although the "Brilliant" MK1A successfully completed its first flight, it only flew for 18 minutes, which can only prove that it has basic flight capabilities, as for defense, bomb loading, attack and many other capabilities still need to be tested.
The Indian Air Force had originally planned to take delivery of at least two Tejas MK1A from Hindustan Aeronautics by the end of March, but so far, it does not seem to be going well.
Despite the delay in the deadline, the Indian Air Force is still full of confidence in the "Tejour" MK1A and is willing to add more than double the order amount to the original order to show support.
The additional order is not because it is quick and easy to manufacture the "Brilliant" MK1A, or even a hassle.
The Tejas MK1A is not only a long time to take, but also expensive, as the Indian Air Force previously ordered 83 Tejas Mk1A from Stan Air, with a unit price of about 4.698 billion rubles.
Maybe you don't know the market price of a fighter, and there is no harm if there is no comparison, so let's take a brief look at other fighters.
Also in Stan Airlines, the Su-30MKI fighter assembled and produced by it has a unit price of about 4.15 billion rubles, which is 558 million rubles cheaper, which is converted into RMB, which can more intuitively show the gap, 558 million rubles is equivalent to nearly 440 million yuan.
If this is not an exaggeration, then let's take a look at this, if the original Su-30MKI is imported from Russia, it will only cost 3.3 billion rubles, which is converted into RMB, which is more than 100 million cheaper.
Moreover, the Indian Air Force is not one or two orders, but one hundred and eighty together, and according to the additional order volume, the order of the "Brilliant" Mk1A will cost more than 18 billion more than the original Su-30MKI fighters imported from Russia, which is not a small amount.
Moreover, the "Brilliant" Mk1A is not only expensive but also time-consuming, and a "Tejour" Mk1A takes about 250,000 man-hours from start to completion.
Compared with the 60,000 man-hours of the F-35C stealth carrier-based aircraft, the 57,000 man-hours of the F-35B vertical take-off and landing stealth fighter, and even the 4.1-hour F-35A stealth fighter, it is not half a star and a half.
French Rafale fighter
France's Rafale is known as the world's "most versatile" fighter fourth-generation and a half fighter, produced in France, with both land, sea and air strike capabilities, not only nuclear bomb throwing capabilities, but also aircraft carrier carriers.
The French Rafale is known as the "Three Heroes" along with the Swedish Saab JAS-39 and the European Typhoon with its excellent performance.
Chinese J-20 with French Rafale
If the Indian marshal sincerely puts forward the shortcomings for the improvement of the mainland's J-20, our people welcome it.
But if it is indiscriminately rumor-mongering and slander, we naturally don't like it, let alone in the form of stepping on and handful, by smearing the continental J-20 to enhance the French Rafale.
Compared with the canard wing of the continental J-20, the characteristics of the French Rafale delta wing are also more significant.
The delta wing also has the advantages of the delta wing, such as the delta wing has a larger area, stronger flight maneuverability, and better flight maneuverability.
The delta wing has high structural strength, good stability, strong rigidity, light weight, and is easy to retract and release the landing gear.
Compared with the drag generated when the canard wing lands, it can land faster and better, and the angle of attack when the delta wing lands is not large, and the nose needs to be raised, which makes the pilot's vision obstructed.
Compared with the detachment vortex generated by the canard wing, which interferes with the airflow on the upper surface of the main wing, the delta wing tip is prone to gas diversion, which causes the wing to flutter, and the drag is too large when it continues to circle, resulting in a short continuous hovering time.
We can neither say that the French Rafale is completely superior to the mainland's J-20, nor can we say that the mainland's J-20 is completely better than the French Rafale, it can only be said that each has its own merits and characteristics, but on the whole, the mainland's J-20 is still superior to the French Rafale.
Based on the above considerations, the Indian marshal's statement that China's J-20 has poor performance and that even Pakistan is unwilling to purchase it has not been investigated and verified, is a deliberate smear, and is untenable, and it is nonsense to say that the mainland J-20 is far inferior to the French Rafale, and even inferior to the "Brilliant" MK1A.
But in the face of such difficulties and smears, we don't have to be like them, we just need to be ourselves and let others look up to us.