I'm out of the loop, how are the Chinese involved?
this post was submitted on 08 Oct 2025
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One important design criterion for the J-20 is high instability.[65][66] This requires sustained pitch authority at a high angle of attack, in which a conventional tail-plane would lose effectiveness due to stalling. On the other hand, a canard can deflect opposite to the angle of attack, avoiding stall and thereby maintaining control.[67] A canard design is also known to provide good supersonic performance, excellent supersonic and transonic turn performance, and improved short-field landing performance compared to the conventional delta-wing design.[68][69]
Sounds like a real pain in the neck for the pilots lol
Modern jet fighters are all traditionally unstable. The flight system keeps it controllable. So not easy for pilots of course but not unusual at all.
I wasn't referring at all to the instability, actually. I was moreso pointing out the "high pitch authority and high angle of attack" and the "supersonic performance, excellent supersonic and transonic turn performance, and improved short field landing performance" which is to say the pilots will be experiencing G-Forces so extreme that most other fighter Jets can't even handle it.
This plane was designed to turn at very high speeds, explicitly.