Chengdu J-20

This aircraft is a proposed  aircraft said to be in design/production in China. The aircraft is a Chinese stealth fighter that bears a striking resemblance to the F22/F35, especially in the nose section.

The model was produced by a Chinese model company (I can't read Chinese) and was fairly easy to build. Most models have the wheel wells as part of the bottom half of the fuselage. Not this model. Here you must build the wheel well and the intakes. It was a fairly easy model to build and looked amazing when it was finished.

The aircraft is not currently operational, only a test model exists with the plan to have it in the skies by 2017/2018. (Let's hope the US invents invisibility by then)

General characteristics

• Crew: 1
• Length: 70 ft (21.26 m)
• Wingspan: 42 ft (12.88 m)
• Height: 4.45m (14.6 ft)
• Wing area: 630 ft^2 ()
• Max takeoff weight: 66,000–80,000 lb (34,000 - 37,000 kg)
• Powerplant: 2 × 117S and WS-10G turbofans (prototypes); WS-15 (production) turbofans
  • Dry thrust: Unknown () each
  • Thrust with afterburner: 31,900 lb (117S); 32,845 (WS-10G); 40,500 (WS-15) (142 kN for 117S; 155 kN for WS-10G; 180 kN for WS-15) each
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  This aircraft looks amazing, but when you look closer, it appears to simply be an F22 on steroids with plastic surgery making it's nose seem like it was taken right from an F35. I like the way the plane looks... only because it looks incredibly American.
  
  I personally can't wait to see this aircraft operation, and am excited to see videos of it flying. But I trust that by time it reaches operational use, it will be horribly outdated
  
  
  
  
  
  

Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-21

Never has an aircraft served so long, and embodied what the Soviet Union better than the iconic Mig 21. This aircraft was a supersonic, second/third generation fighter that served in the  the Vietnam War, and the early Israeli conflicts. This aircraft was operated by most of Russia's allies both during and after the Soviet era.

The aircraft's design and capabilities embodied the Soviet unions communist opinion and what the union was planning. This aircraft could usually match or outmatch western fighters like no other fighter that was produced during the era of the aircraft.

General characteristics

• Crew: 1
• Length: 15.76 m (51 ft 8.47 in)
• Wingspan: 7.154 m (23 ft 5.66 in)
• Height: 4.1 m (13 ft 5.41 in)
• Wing area: 23.0 m² (247.3 ft²)
• Empty weight: 4,871 kg (10,738 lb)
• Gross weight: 7,100 kg (15,650 lb)
• Powerplant: 1 × Tumansky R11F-300, 37.27 kN (8,380 lbf) thrust dry, 56.27 kN (12,650 lbf) with afterburner each

Performance

• Maximum speed: 2,125 km/h (1,385 mph)
• Maximum speed: Mach 2.05
• Range: 1,580 km (981 miles)
• Service ceiling: 19,000 m (62,335 ft)

 This aircraft has been in service for almost 60 years now, but it's design and capabilities will keep it flying for a long time. Maybe not in the Russian air force, but definitely in air forces that once supported the Soviet Union.