Chinas Stealth-Prototypen - Chengdu J-36

[Quintus Fabius]

https://www.israeldefense.co.il/en/node/63959

https://www.aspistrategist.org.au/chinas...e-targets/

As for how to classify the J-36, too many people have rushed to call it a ‘sixth-generation fighter’.

But this ‘generation’ taxonomy misleads more than it informs, because combat aircraft designs need not and do not fall into discrete sequential groups of characteristics.

And ‘fighter’, ‘bomber’ and ‘strike’ definitions are getting less clear. .......Designed against air and land threats, the J-36 is even larger than the Su-34. Its size and flight performance put it into its own category, for which there is no name. Maybe ‘airborne cruiser’ will catch on.