the Main event of ended International space salon in Zhūhǎi Airshow China-2016 became presentation of the latest Chinese fighter of the fifth generation of Chengdu J-20. In spite of the fact that demonstration flight of a novelty lasted less than a minute, the world community paid to the Chinese plane close attention. Chinese do not hurry to open completely all the secrets — right after indicative flight two J-20 landed in military airfield and any more were not shown.

the Chinese mass media at once christened J-20 "A thunder-storm of aircraft carriers", and some editions declared that the new Chinese fighter does not leave chances to the American F-22 and F-35. However whether so it actually or China once again prepared though qualitative, but nevertheless "copy"? Soon everything becomes clear, however already now with full confidence it is possible to establish the fact of that China nevertheless overtook Russian Federation and in the next months becomes the second country in the world which the fighter of the fifth generation officially is adopted.

Detailed tactical technical characteristics of the Russian T-50, the American F-22 and the Chinese J-20 are still kept by p a secret. The public has only those poor data which provided defensive departments of the countries. However it is possible to draw some conclusions nevertheless.

American "predator"

Development of the American fighter of the fifth generation began p in the mid-eighties. Competition on development and creation of the latest fighter was won by corporation Lockheed Martin COR, a number of knots and details delivered defensive divisions of Boeing and General Dynamics corporations.

F-22 Raptor Prototype for the first time rose in the sky in the fall of 1997. 4 years later the mass production of fighters began. On January 14, 2003 F-22 Raptor was officially taken advantage of the Air Force of United States of America. The first fighters arrived on air bases Nellis and Langley where the headquarters of the Central intelligence service of United States of America is also located (CIA).

In spite of the fact that F-22 is one of the most expensive warplanes in the world — production of one "raptor" costs to the authorities $350 million, and on condition of the cost of the program of development — more than $411 million, operation of F-22 Raptor is connected with numerous technical problems. In particular, as a result of various technical malfunctions of the Air Force of United States of America already lost 3 planes therefore 2 military pilots were lost. Soon after that some pilots made open statements in which officers of the Air Force of United States of America refused to fly on F-22 Raptor before full elimination of all malfunctions.

In 2012 the head of defensive department of United States of America Panetta Leon entered a number of restrictions on F-22 Raptor operation. Unstable work of system of generation of oxygen (OBOGS) became the reason of input of restrictive measures. After input of restrictions to pilots of "raptors" forbade to make long flights, besides, in F-22 time spent in air the pilot has to watch an arrangement of spare airfields and, in case of any technical malfunctions, immediately make emergency landing.

Year earlier United States Department of Defense forbade pilots of F-22 Raptor to rise by height over 7,6 thousand meters. This measure is directed on prevention of accidents in case of refusal OBOGS. On February 11, 2007 at once 12 American fighters of the fifth generation could not make flight to Japan because of technical problems with the software. Failure in operation of the F-22 computer was caused by crossing of the line of change of dates. to

it is obvious to p, what even the American authorities understand that F-22 is very expensive and unreliable "toy". Military observers repeatedly noted that the limited stock of fuel — the volume of tanks of "raptor" makes only 8,2 tons — does the plane almost unsuitable for application in real fighting conditions. F-22 too depend on air refueling and cannot carry out fighting tasks in a distance from home airfields.

the Majority of military experts agree in opinion that F-22 Raptor turned out too expensive and whimsical in service, besides, the revealed problems in system of supply of oxygen practically did not leave chances to "a feathery predator" in real fighting application. Still main "a working horse" Americans there is F-16 Fighting Falcon developed still in the early seventies.

Still in the late eighties command of the Air Force of the USSR presented the Russian T-50 to leading design offices of the requirement to the new fighter which had to replace becoming outdated MiG-29 and Su-27. JSC "Dva KB" at once — the projects were submitted by bureau of Mikoyan and Gurevich (MiG) and JSC "Experimental design office Sukhogo" (SU). Owing to the known historical reasons, development of the Russian fighter of the fifth generation was it is thrown up to 2002. when JSC "Experimental design office Sukhogo" were chosen as the chief developer of the new fighter.

at the heart of T-50 which is also known as the Prospective airborne complex of frontline aviation (PAK PHA), prototypes MiG 1.44 and Su-47 developed still in Soviet period lie. The model of the fighter was shown in 2004, and on January 29, 2010 the first prototype rose in air. A year later and 40 flight tests of T-50 for the first time broke a sound barrier. In September, 2015 the final stage of tests of the car began, by this moment prototypes of T-50 made more than 600 departures. Transfer of the first serial T-50 of the Air Force Russian Federation is planned for 2018

Today the public only 2 emergency situations which have occurred during tests of the Russian fighter of the fifth generation are known. In August, 2011 during take-off of T-50 flash then automatic equipment let out a brake parachute was observed. The plane and the test pilot did not suffer. 3 years later in Zhukovsky when landing T-50 there was a local ignition around the right air inlet which managed to be extinguished quickly. The test pilot did not suffer, and the plane returned to a system after semi-annual capital repairs.

On development of the fighter of the fifth generation at the Russian engineers about 16 years that is nearly 5 years less, than at their transatlantic colleagues left. However whether the Russian fighter will be able to resist to the advanced development of the American military industrial complex or Russian Federation, seeking to catch up with United States of America, nevertheless missed a number of the key moments? Recognizing that practically the majority authentic characteristics remain secret, analysts can predict only hypothetically an outcome of air fight between T-50 and F-22. Many international experts as the main rivals saw the American and Russian fighter, however a situation changed radically after in the Chinese mass media there were first mentions and "espionage" photos of a novelty of the Chinese aviation industry — the fighter Chengdu J-20.

Chinese "a black eagle"

at the beginning of the 2000th. The central Council of War China appointed Shenyansky aircraft manufacturing corporation (Shenyang Aircraft Corporation) by the chief developer of the perspective fighter. The first messages that China started development of own fighter of the fifth generation are dated 2002 Beijing officially did not make comments on this information up to 2009. when the second-in-command of the Air Force of Noak Chen Xiaogong during a press conference confirmed information that in China works on creation of the latest fighter are really conducted. At the end of 2010 in a network there were first pictures of a prototype, and also the official name of the plane — Chengdu J-20 was for the first time mentioned. to

the Following stage. Its official presentation on fields of the international air show in Zhūhǎi in November, 2016 on November 1 two fighters J-20 in the face of public became the culmination of the project made some maneuvers then landed in the closed military airfield.

If for certain knows to

of T-50 and F-22 a little, concerning J-20 it is possible to tell that anybody, except Chinese, absolutely knows nothing. In spite of the fact that military experts and acting officers of the Air Force of Noak Chen do not cease to eulogize a novelty of the Chinese military industrial complex, its characteristics are still unknown. In a network separate data which do not give in to check meet, and their sources do not reveal.

So, in September, 2016 the authoritative Chinese edition Newspaper "Zhenmin zhibao" on-line published article in which unknown military experts compare J-20 to the American F-22 and F-35, declaring that "in case of real fight at the American cars does not remain uniform chance". Information that J-20 will be equipped with the newest rockets of the class "air-water" which will allow the Chinese fighter to become "a thunder-storm of all aircraft carriers" appeared several weeks earlier in the Chinese mass media. Whether so actually we learn it, at least, the next 10−15 years. Chinese can praise excessively characteristics of the military equipment even if it is not comparable with arms of other countries. The main weak link of J-20 as, however, and all other Chinese aeromechanics remains the power plant. Despite all efforts from the state (creation of the joint enterprises specializing on production of aircraft engines and active cooperation with Russian Federation on the matter), the Chinese engines still concede American and Russian on a number of characteristics.

more expensive means better?

Other technical characteristics of all three cars are approximately similar. It is necessary to place also emphasis that experts and analysts have no opportunity them somehow to check, entirely trusting information opened by developers. The aircraft plays a strategic role during any conflict even since the Korean war. However besides continuous modernization of equipment and application of new technologies by the extremely important there is a total number of equipment. In this situation one of the key moments is prime cost of one unit.

In this case the unconditional outsider is the American fighter which cost makes more than $411 million. Prime cost of the Russian T-50 by different calculations makes about $100 million China did not publish even approximate figure, however, according to the western experts, one J-20 costs to Beijing approximately $175 −202 one million. Considering military budgets of United States of America, China and Russian Federation, it is possible to assume that 10−20 years later all three powers will possess approximately identical number of fighters of the fifth generation.