“We will strive to achieve the fundamental modernization of national defense and the Armed Forces by 2035, and to make the popular army a World Class Force In all aspects for the middle of this century. ”With these words, Xi Jinping drew in 2017 a military horizon that then sounded ambitious.
It could have been in rhetoric, in a gesture designed to dazzle. But in this China the plans are rarely artifice fires: they become state projects, with short and medium term goals conceded into strategies that look forward to decades. And the truth is that a good part of those goals have already begun to materialize.
China is not characterized by hurry, although it advances with a speed that surprises. In 2003 he put his first Taikonauta in orbit when the United States and Russia (with the Soviet inheritance in between) accumulated half a century of experience in the space race. Two decades later, Beijing has raised its own orbital infrastructure and a program that does not give brake signals.
The same happens on the mainland. In the early 2000s there were no high -speed trains in the country. Today it manages the most extensive network on the planet, an example of accelerated transformation. And in defense, which is the focus of this analysis, the jump is equally forceful: shipyards capable of throwing large -scale ships, aircraft carriers with electromagnetic catapults and latest generation combat fighters.
J-50, from rumor to the images
As TWZ collects, the most clear images have appeared so far from a heavy furtive hunt attributed to Shenyang Aircraft Corporation. In the public conversation it is identified as J-xds and, unofficially, such as J-50. The material is not verified, but fits with less clear previous shots and does not show obvious indications of manipulation. We see a design without a tail that analysts framed in the next combat generation.
J-50
The plane dispenses with tail surfaces, presents tilting pales that appear deflecting down and mounts 2D nozzles with vector thrust and folded bordering. The nose is long, of diamond geometry. Air shots are trapezoidal and adopt a DSI scheme. Under the nose a fairing appears for the electro-optical system and the cabin is a car.
Today we do not know if the photographed is a technological demonstrator or a configuration closer to production. There are also no confirmed data on definitive sensor packagepropulsion or calendar. As a context, in parallel there have been advances of the J-20s Biplaza and the Naval J-35. The focus, in any case, is in this design without a tail that suggests a parallel development to that of J-20.
J-20S
The photographs provide form, but leave unanswered key issues. It is unknown which propeller equips the plane, what will be its sensor configuration, what communications or electronic warfare systems and what arsenal is planned for him.
In any case, EJ-50 becomes the clearest sample that Beijing is willing to experiment with radical concepts in military aviation. A design without a tail, with mobile wounds and vector nozzles, involves entering a land that few have dared to explore. The unknown is how much of what we see corresponds to an isolated prototype and how much is part of a long -distance program. What seems out of doubt is that China wants to position yourself at the forefront of the next generation of poachers.
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