J-xx

J-XX

J-XX J-X, and XXJ are names applied by Western intelligence sources to describe program(s) by the People's Republic of China to develop one or more fourth (by Chinese nomenclature) or fifth-generation fighter aircraft (by west). In a 2009 television interview, He Weirong (何为荣), deputy commander of the People's Liberation Army Air Force, stated that China had multiple such programs underway and that an as-yet-undesignated fifth-generation fighter developed jointly by Chengdu Aircraft Corporation and Shenyang Aircraft Corporation would be in service by 2017–2019. The maiden flight of the Chengdu J-20 stealth fighter was conducted on January 11, 2011.