La fiche Ce qu’est ce système, d’où il vient, qui le met en œuvre et pour quels modules de Vigil il est pertinent — avec les éléments sur lesquels repose chacun de ces points.
Fiche
Pertinence pour les conflits
Ceci est la fiche unique du catalogue pour ce système. Il est pertinent pour le module ci-dessous ; le Force Atlas de chaque module montre comment il y est employé.
Rôle sur le champ de bataille
Air superiority and long-range interception, with reported emphasis on engaging support and enabling aircraft at range.
Points forts
Low-observable design, long range and modern sensors, produced in numbers that have grown steadily. Its existence and production rate are the clearest single indicator of Chinese aerospace industrial capability.
Limites
Combat performance is entirely untested. Engine development has historically been the programme's constraint, and open-source assessments of its actual capability vary very widely — reflecting genuine uncertainty rather than analytical disagreement. Vigil publishes no inventory figures, basing or deployment information, and treats confident capability claims from any direction with caution.
Pertinence pour les campagnes
Dérivé : une organisation participant à ces campagnes porte une association d’équipement typée avec ce système. Ce n’est pas la même chose qu’un emploi documenté du système dans la campagne elle-même.
- Une pression soutenue sous le seuil En intensification depuis 2020
via PLA Air Force (Documented, high confidence)
Identification visuelle
A large twin-engine fighter with canard foreplanes ahead of a delta wing and outward-canted fins — the canard-plus-delta combination is unique among low-observable aircraft and is the identification. Photographs of it near Taiwan are rare, which is itself worth noting.
Emploi documenté dans les conflits
In PLA Air Force service since 2017 and displayed publicly at Chinese air shows. Appearances in Taiwan's published detection reporting are infrequent by comparison with the fourth-generation types that do the routine work, and claims about its presence in specific incidents are often contested. This record stays at partial for that reason: the aircraft is well documented and its role in the pressure system around Taiwan is not.
Opérateurs par composante et par service
- PLA Air Force Documenté
Évalué au — 2026-07 Dernière revue — 2026-09-09