We Have Close-Up Pictures of China's J-20 Stealth Fighter: What They Mean

Although the J-20 has been pushed into service, recent problems with the J-15 carrier-based fighter suggest that the Chinese answer to the F-22 isn’t quite ready for prime-time despite propaganda from Chinese-owned media outlets that portray the J-20 as a fully-armed and operational battle station. That certainly sounds familiar …On August 1st, China celebrated the founding of the People's Liberation Army by allowing some high-resolution photos of the next-generation J-20 stealth fighter to leak, complete with a tasteful photoshopped-on patriotic dragon painting just below the canopy which just screams "Happy Birthday, PLA."> As usual, photos of J-20 are posted online to celebrate the Army Day on 1 Aug. pic.twitter.com/Gv7rgy5Jui> > — dafeng cao (@dafengcao) July 31, 2018(This article originally appeared at Task & Purpose. Follow Task & Purpose on Twitter. This article first appeared in 2018.)

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