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Technically we haven't heard that much about their successes either -- over the last few years since its maiden flight we've only had pictures and rumours to go by, and very few official statements about its development milestones.So we have no idea how successful or unsuccessful the testing and performance of the aircraft in its various domains have been... so we only have big ticket events to infer the status of the project, like no. of prototypes and speed of prototype production presence at Zhuhai airshow, speed of LRIP, speed of induction etc.The fact that they are delivering production aircraft to the air force for what would likely be OT&E is just one of those big ticket events we have to try and build off.It can mean a few things; that their development so far is at a state that they are confident to deliver aircraft to the air force for assessment, but it could also mean there are issues in development but the air force has been willing to overlook them, or maybe that the air force has had low requirements for the aircraft to begin with meaning CAC were able to deliver the aircraft more easily compared to other programmes in the world... or one could even go to the most extreme end and suggest that the entire J-20 development has been a sort of a potemkin event that does not really aim to produce a competitive fighter.Unfortunately we'll probably never know, unless the eventual CCTV documentary about its development is more open than we expect.
Technically we haven't heard that much about their successes either -- over the last few years since its maiden flight we've only had pictures and rumours to go by, and very few official statements about its development milestones.
So we have no idea how successful or unsuccessful the testing and performance of the aircraft in its various domains have been... so we only have big ticket events to infer the status of the project, like no. of prototypes and speed of prototype production presence at Zhuhai airshow, speed of LRIP, speed of induction etc.
The fact that they are delivering production aircraft to the air force for what would likely be OT&E is just one of those big ticket events we have to try and build off.
It can mean a few things; that their development so far is at a state that they are confident to deliver aircraft to the air force for assessment, but it could also mean there are issues in development but the air force has been willing to overlook them, or maybe that the air force has had low requirements for the aircraft to begin with meaning CAC were able to deliver the aircraft more easily compared to other programmes in the world... or one could even go to the most extreme end and suggest that the entire J-20 development has been a sort of a potemkin event that does not really aim to produce a competitive fighter.
Unfortunately we'll probably never know, unless the eventual CCTV documentary about its development is more open than we expect.
