Chengdu J-20

what is it?

The Chengdu J-20 (Chinese: 歼-20; pinyin: Jiān-Èrlíng), also known as Weilong (Chinese: 威龙; pinyin: Wēilóng; lit. 'Mighty Dragon', NATO reporting name: Fagin), is a twin-engine all-weather stealth fighter developed by China's Chengdu Aircraft Corporation between 2011 and 2018 for the People's Liberation Army Air Force (PLAAF). The J-20 is designed as an air superiority fighter with precision strike capability.

🔎How to recognise it: 4 jet engines · 13 m wingspan

base stats

• range 5,500 kmwithout refuelling
• size 37 tmax take-off weight
• built 500made in total

Bars compare against all aircraft: 3,500 km/h, 20,000 km, 850 seats; size and number built on a log scale up to 640 t (An-225) and 45,000 built (Cessna 172).

fun facts

• 🎂First flew 15 years ago, in 2011.
• 🚗Wingspan of 13 m: about 3 cars parked nose to tail.
• 🐘Fully loaded it can weigh as much as 6 African elephants (~6 t each).
• 🌍Range of 5,500 km: 31× Amsterdam to Brussels.
• 🏔️Can fly 2.3× higher than Mount Everest (8,849 m).

jet: Gas turbine pushing air out the back (turbofan or turbojet): fast and high-flying.

spec sheet

first flight

2011-01-11

introduced

2017

status

still flying

number built

500

role

stealth air superiority fighter

origin

🇨🇳 People's Republic of China

makers

Chengdu Aircraft Industry Group

engines

4× Shenyang WS-10C / Shenyang WS-15

length

21.2 m

wingspan

13 m

height

4.7 m

max take-off weight

37 t

top speed

—

range

5,500 km

ceiling

20,000 m

wings

canard

Specs are for the version in the Wikipedia article's specification section. Blank means the sources don't say.