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F-35s have encountered J-20s

发布者: babyface | 发布时间: 2022-3-17 16:53| 查看数: 1789| 评论数: 0|帖子模式

F-35s have encountered J-20s over East China Sea: USAF general
[size=0.889]By Greg Waldron16 March 2022



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[size=1.125]A top US Air Force (USAF) general says that Lockheed Martin F-35s have had at least one encounter with Chengdu J-20s, and that the Shaanxi KJ-500 airborne early warning and control (AEW&C) aircraft has a key role in long-range air-to-air kill chains.

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[size=1.125]USAF General Kenneth Wilsbach, Commander, Pacific Air Forces did not, however, divulge when the F-35/J-20 encounter took place, or if there have been more than one. He also touched on the role of the new Chinese
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[size=0.889]Source: Wikimedia Commons
[size=0.889]Two J-20s doing a flyby at Airshow China in Zhuhai, November 2018


[size=1.125]“It’s a bit early to say what they intend to do with the J-20, so really all we’ve seen it do is air superiority,” he says.

[size=1.125]“But we notice that they are flying it pretty well. We recently had – I wouldn’t call it an engagement – where we got relatively close to the J-20s along with our F-35s in the East China Sea, and we’re relatively impressed with the command and control associated with the J-20.”
[size=1.125]Wilsbach made the remarks during a discussion posted on the YouTube channel of the Mitchell Institute for Aerospace Studies.
[size=1.125]“We’re seeing relatively professional flying and it’s still too early to tell exactly what they intend to do with [the J-20] – whether it’s going to be more like an F-35 that’s capable of doing many, many missions or more like an F-22 that is primarily an air superiority fighter that has an air-to-ground capability.”
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[size=0.889]Source: Greg Waldron/FlightGlobal
[size=0.889]The Shaanxi KJ-500 at Airshow China in November 2018


[size=1.125]Wilsbach also touched on the KJ-500, which in recent years has emerged as China’s key AEW&C platform.
[size=1.125]Powered by four turboprops, the KJ-500 is based on the Y-9 tactical transport. The aircraft carries a three-panel active electronically scanned array radar in a fixed radome above the fuselage. This is understood to provide 360° radar coverage.
[size=1.125]“The KJ-500 plays a significant role in some of their capability for long range fires,” says Wilsbach.
[size=1.125]“Some of their very long range air-to-air missiles are aided by that KJ-500. Being able to interrupt that kill chain is something that interests me greatly.”
[size=1.125]China’s PL-15 long range air-to-air missile is understood to have a range in excess of 107nm (200km). The radar-guided weapon is carried by types such as the Chengdu J-10C, Shenyang J-11B, J-15 and J-16, Islamabad’s Pakistan Aeronautical Complex JF-17 Block 3, and the J-20.
[size=1.125]Wilsbach’s remarks hint that the KJ-500 may identify and assign targets for Chinese fighters, which can then launch the active radar homing PL-15 from great stand-off distances.











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