Just more Chinese Communist Party (CCP) propaganda using irrelevent cherry-picked isolated incidents to make a false narrative look convincing. The fact remains that the signature of a luneburg lens is far greater than the RCS of even a nonstealthy jet, meaning if the J-20 were carrying the luneburg lens, the IAF and Taiwan's air force would not even be able to identify the aircraft as J-20. Instead both the IAF and Taiwan's air force have been able to track and identify the J-20, meaning that the J-20 RCS is too great to avoid detection due to its radar still being exposed to enemy radar, as well as other non-stealthy features like its optical pod, canards, gaps between canard and joint which would be picked up by x band radar from front due to resonance effect even if the canard was locked. The IAF chief and others have gone on the record to state that the SU-30MKI radar had picked up the J-20, which means they were sure that the aircraft was the J-20.
The diagram posted about the J-20 on previous page is the clearest example of CCP propaganda targeted towards a foreign audience. Otherwise why does it have a language other than Chinese on it. Official PLAAF documents are only in Chinese. If CCP/PLAAF is so secretive about its technology, why would they post a diagram with features of the aircraft in a foreign language? In order to convince other countries of how great their air force equipment is of course, hence the propaganda brochures.
Operational aircraft don't fly with luneburg lens, especially not when patrolling near enemy territory, because that would defeat the purpose of a reduced RCS jet. It's just another excuse invented by CCP media propaganda to hide the fact that the J-20 RCS is too great to avoid detection by modern radars of India, Taiwan and its other adversaries.
The diagram posted about the J-20 on previous page is the clearest example of CCP propaganda targeted towards a foreign audience. Otherwise why does it have a language other than Chinese on it. Official PLAAF documents are only in Chinese. If CCP/PLAAF is so secretive about its technology, why would they post a diagram with features of the aircraft in a foreign language? In order to convince other countries of how great their air force equipment is of course, hence the propaganda brochures.
Operational aircraft don't fly with luneburg lens, especially not when patrolling near enemy territory, because that would defeat the purpose of a reduced RCS jet. It's just another excuse invented by CCP media propaganda to hide the fact that the J-20 RCS is too great to avoid detection by modern radars of India, Taiwan and its other adversaries.
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