When CCTV reported on Wang Hai Brigade recently, the ace unit of the Chinese Air Force equipped with J-20 fighters, it revealed that this unit has completed tasks like air rights protection on the Diaoyu Islands and normal control of the East China Sea air defense identification zone.
This surprised many Chinese military enthusiasts, who admired Russia’s daring to send Su-57 to Syria for missions and did not expect J-20 to have been to the Diaoyu Islands, and even more thought-provokingly, the Japan Air Self-Defense Force (JASDF), which has been dubbed the “official photographer” of the Chinese Air Force, did not release photos of the J-20’s trip to the Diaoyu Islands. It is believed that this indicates that the Japanese Self-Defense Force has not been able to monitor the stealthy J-20s at all.
Chinese military expert Du Wenlong said recently that in the near future, the J-20 may appear in the list of training around Taiwan Island, and may even directly cross Taiwan Island.
Du Wenlong believes that if the J-20 crosses the island of Taiwan, the Taiwan military is likely to be unaware of it. As a fifth-generation stealth fighter, the biggest advantage of the J-20 is its “radar stealth capability”. The RCS of J-20 is only a few percent of that of traditional fighter jets, which can significantly reduce the distance detected by radar and easily cross the blind spot between ground radar stations.
Moreover, the cruising speed of the J-20 is much higher than that of traditional fighters, and its official combat cruising speed can reach 52 km/min. Judging by the width of the island of Taiwan being only about 120 kilometers, the J-20 can traverse the sky over the island in less than 3 minutes, and the Taiwan military will have no time to react.