中国的新J20战机远超区域对手 [美国媒体]

Chinese J-20 stealth fighter jets fly past during a military parade at the Zhurihe training base in China's northern Inner Mongolia region on July 30, 2017. (STR/AFP/Getty Images)

图：2017年7月30日的阅兵期间，中国J20隐形战机在中国北部内蒙古地区的朱日和训练基地上空飞过。

China just started using its Chengdu J-20 fighter jets, a military official announced last week via state-run Xinhua News Agency. The long-range stealth fighters are evidently China’s best in their class. They should help the People’s Liberation Army air force with long-range interception or position it to strike first at infrastructure targets on the ground. China will probably focus on its coasts and land borders, the most likely sites of skirmishes given China’s turbid neighbor relations. “The PLA Air Force, like the PLA Navy, lagged behind for many years and is eager to acquire cutting-edge capabilities now that the Chinese industrial base has grown stronger and budgets are flush,” says Joshua Pollack, editor of The Nonproliferation Review in Washington.

上周一位军方官员通过新华社宣布，中国的成飞歼20战机已刚刚开始投入使用。这种远程隐形轰炸机显然是中国此类飞机中最好的。他们应该会在远程拦截方面帮到解放军空军，或者把它用来先发制人打击地面基础设施目标。中国很可能会把注意力集中在海岸线和陆地国境线上，考虑到中国与邻国的混乱关系，很有可能会集中在有争议的地方。位于华盛顿的《核不扩散评论》杂志编辑约书亚.波拉克说：“解放军空军像落后了很多年的解放军海军一样，在热切地获取前沿技术能力，现在中国的工业基础己经变得更强健，预算充足”。

China’s latest can beat three other weighty countries that are developing similar aircraft, although this is largely because rival aircraft have yet to be released or proven yet in service. They are:

中国的最新战机可以击败其他3个正在发展类似飞机的重量级国家，尽管这主要是因为对手的飞机还没有发布，也没有被证实服役。这些国家是：

1. India: Indian aerospace and defense firm Hindustan Aeronautics Ltd. is working with Russian aircraft maker JSC Sukhoi Co. to develop what this news report describes as a fighter aircraft with stealth capability. It would be in the same class as the J-20. But the project is “complicated,” and work will go slowly, the head of a Russian state-owned export promotion firm was quoted saying in the report. The two countries have worked together since 2007. Russia’s military is considered stronger than China’s, but India is a step behind and troops from the two countries faced off over a disputed border region for 70 days in mid-2017.

1. 印度：据《今日俄罗斯》的新闻报道描述，印度的航空国防公司印度斯坦航空有限公司为了发展一种有隐形能力的战斗机，正在跟俄罗斯飞机制造商JSC苏霍伊航空集团合作。新开发的飞机将会和J20是同一类型飞机。“但是该项目是‘复杂的’，进展会很慢”，这是该报道引述一家俄罗斯国有出口促进公司总裁的话。这两个国家从2007年就开始合作。俄罗斯的军力被认为比中国军力更强大，但是印度还落后一步，2017年年中，中印两国军队在争议边境区域对峙了70天。

2. Japan: An R&D institute under Japan’s Ministry of Defense has contracted Mitsubishi Heavy Industries to develop a stealth fighter called the X-2 Shinshin. After eight years of development, a test flight delayed due to parts failure went smoothly in April 2016, per this industry news report. The aircraft is built expressly to dodge radars. But the plane is still in development. On top of that, Japan is reportedly considering development of another fighter jet, dubbed the F-3. Why so many fighters? The rise of China’s military strength troubles Japan. The two face off regularly over a dispute tract of the East China Sea, and Tokyo is taking an ever stronger rolein checking Beijing’s expansion in the South China Sea.

2. 日本：日本防卫省下的一个研发机构已经与三菱重工签定合约开发一款叫做X2心神的战机。根据《国防航空》网站消息，经过8年的开发后，由于零件故障而推迟的试飞已于2016年4月顺利进行。这架飞机明显是为躲避雷达而建造的。但是这架飞机仍然在开发中。另外，据报道，日本还在考虑开发另一架战机，名为F-3。为什么开发那么多战机？中国军事力量的崛起困扰了日本。两国常常在东中国海争议地带对峙，在牵制北京在南中国海扩张的事务上，东京正扮演着比之前更强硬的角色。

3. Russia: In addition to the fighter being developed with India, Sukhoi will finish research and development on another J-20 peer, the PAK FA T-50, in 2019 with initial trials due next year, the country’s news service TASS reports. This aircraft, two of which got into a mock dogfight at an aviation show in July, was originally due for use this year. China got there first. The two countries have lived in peace for the past 25 years, following several border clashes.

3. 俄罗斯：除了跟印度开发的战机，苏霍伊将在2019年完成另一款与J20同等的战机的研发，即未来前线战斗机T50，据该国的通讯社塔斯社报道，这款飞机将在明年进行首次测试。在7月份的航空展上，有两架这款飞机进行了空中缠斗模拟，这款飞机本来应该今年交付使用。中国领先一步完成了这个目标。这两个国家在过去的25年里一直和平相处，在那之前有过几次边境冲突。

But China’s J-20 would also be a tough rival against the American-made, U.S. Air Force’s hundreds of F-35 fighter jets.

但是中国的J20也将成为美国空军几百架F35战机的强劲对手。



D
That plane is too big. It's not an air superiority fighter. It may not even be stealth.

这飞机太大了。不是一架空中优势战机。甚至可能不是隐形战机。

Jimmy Yakamoto
Appearance is stealth, but it's not. Radar cross section of a barge. LOL

外表看起来是隐形，但不是。雷喧截面就像一艘游轮一样。哈哈

Steven
Hey Jimmy Yakamoto, when's Japan gonna build a stealth fighter?

喂，大和人Jimmy，日本什么时候能建造一架隐形飞机？

Jimmy Yakamoto
Japan doesn't need one yet, you dumb commie. BTW, does your mother still work at that seedy brothel that caters to Japanese businessmen? Tell her that next time I visit her, I'll leave a tip.

日本还不需要，你个傻X。顺便，你妈妈还在那家下流的为日本商人服务的妓院工作吗？告诉她，下次我去找她，我会给她小费。

Denis
There are always the same stupid anti-China elements barking all the time.

总是在嚎叫的反中分子常常是同一拔人。

Jimmy Yakamoto
If Chinese pilots fly like most Chinese drivers drive, then the PLA Air Force is in for some serious trouble. BTW, the J-20 "looks" like the real thing, but is actually a piece of bovine excrement like most things "Made in China". ROFL

如果中国飞行员像大部分中国司机开车一样开飞机，那么解放军就有大麻烦了。顺便，J20“看起来”真像那么回事，但是其实就是一坨牛粪，就像大部分“中国制造一样”。哈哈哈哈。

Steven
Sez l'il Japanese dude Jimmy Yakamoto. LOLZ.

大和人Jimmy是个日本家伙。哈哈。

Jimmyyesterday
American from Chula Vista, CA. Living in Japan now. BTW, there's no such Japanese name "Yakamoto", you 'tard.

我是来自加利福尼亚州丘拉维斯塔的美国人，现在住在日本。顺便，日本没有“大和人”这样的名字，你个混蛋。

John
Hey China, grow some nuts if you have any and challenge an F22 while your whole country watches. It would give me great pleasure to know you will be shamed again for another 100 years with the lie you're telling your people

喂，中国，如果你有种的话，挑战一下F22，你全国都在看着呢。你正在对你的人民撒谎，你会再次被羞辱一百年，我会很高兴知道这事的。

Unger
Totally agreed with Denis. Nowadays there are too many people who still have Cold War thinking. They stupidly think China is still too backward and weak. They will keep bashing on China without any reason in any given moment.

完全同意Denis说的。现在有太多人仍然有着冷战思维。他们愚蠢地认为中国仍然很落后和虚弱。他们无缘无故且毫不犹豫地不断攻击中国。