J-20 Stealth Fighter In Taxi Tests
Its timing, Chengdu’s development record and official statements cast doubt on U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates’s 2009 prediction (in support of his decision to stop production of the Lockheed Martin F-22) that China would not have an operational stealth aircraft before 2020. The debut of the J-20 was announced in a Nov. 2009 interview on [...]
