China showed off its stealth fighters at the country’s biggest airshow

China showed off its stealth fighters at the country’s biggest airshow

The J-20, a “fifth-generation” multirole fighter, reportedly entered military service in March 2017.

Combat training began that fall, and it was added to combat units in February 2018.

The fighters are among only a handful of fifth-generation fighters, but some observers argue that the J-20’s inferior engines and the reported inability to maintain stealth at supersonic speeds prevent the plane from being worthy of the classification.

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