===================================================== China’s ministry of national defense announced last month that the People’s Liberation Army Air Force was in the process of inducting J-20 fighters. India deployed a fifth-generation fighter aircraft, however, remain on the drawing board on Indian Aircraft Carriers. Updated: Mar 20, 2018 23:01 IST
China’s new J-20 fighter jet is not stealthy enough and the Indian Air Force (IAF) has the capability to tackle the threat posed by it, said a senior air force officer familiar with Beijing’s military modernisation plans.
“I will go with the IAF’s assessment that India can tackle the J-20 threat,” said Air Marshal KK Nohwar (retd), additional director general of the Delhi-based Centre for Air Power Studies and a former IAF vice chief.
“With the air defence missile systems being bought from DRDO and our existing medium-range surface -to- air missile systems, we are quite capable of shooting down the J-20,” the officer said and added that the J-20 was not a true fifth-generation fighter as “neither is the aircraft’s design stealthy, nor can it supercruise with the existing WS-10 engines”.