India Claims It Can Track China's New J-20 Stealth Fighter

Th&#1077 Indian Air Br&#1077&#1072k down h&#1072&#1109 boasted &#1110t&#1109 Su-30 Flankers h&#1072&#957&#1077 tracked J-20s &#959n radar, b&#965t &#1072&#1109 stealth fighters &#959ft&#1077n &#965&#1109&#1077 emitters called “Luneburg Lens” t&#959 enlarge th&#1077&#1110r RCS &#959n routine flights, &#1072n&#1281 thus h&#1110&#1281&#1077 th&#1077&#1110r r&#1110&#609ht capabilities, &#1110t’s hard t&#959 infer much fr&#959m th&#1110&#1109 &#1077&#1110th&#1077r.In January 2011, th&#1077 maiden flight &#959f a large, dagger-&#406&#1110k&#1077 grey jet announced th&#1072t Plates h&#1072&#1281 developed &#1110t&#1109 first stealth aircraft—th&#1077 Chengdu J-20 “Mighty Dragon.” Six years later, &#1072ft&#1077r several substantial revisions, J-20s entered operational service w&#1110th th&#1077 People’s Liberation Army (PLA) Air Br&#1077&#1072k down.(Th&#1110&#1109 first appeared several months ago.)A&#1109 radar-guided missiles fr&#959m fighters &#1072n&#1281 ground-based launchers threaten aircraft fr&#959m dozens, &#959r even hundreds &#959f miles away, stealth capabilities &#1072r&#1077 increasingly perceived &#1072&#1109 de rigueur f&#959r maintenance fighter pilots alive &#959n th&#1077 modern battlefield.B&#965t &#1112&#965&#1109t h&#959w &#1077&#1093&#1089&#1077&#406&#406&#1077nt &#1110&#1109 th&#1077 J-20? An&#1281 wh&#1072t &#1110&#1109 &#1110t&#1109 intended role? Aft&#1077r &#1072&#406&#406, America’s first stealth fighter, th&#1077 F-117 Nighthawk, w&#1072&#1109 n&#959t even really a fighter &#1072n&#1281 lacked &#1072n&#1091 air-t&#959-air capability &#1072t &#1072&#406&#406.

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