J-20 Appears at China-India Border, Former Indian Air Force Marshal Admits: We Can't Match It for Now
On the 27th, New Delhi Television released an exclusive report stating that satellite imagery shows 11 J-20 fighter jets deployed by the People's Liberation Army at military bases along the China-India border from late June to early July.
In general, although this news story from New Delhi Television is labeled as "exclusive," the content itself doesn't contain much noteworthy information—China's J-20 fighters have long been in service across the PLA's five theater commands, and their presence in the China-India border region is entirely normal combat readiness deployment, nothing out of the ordinary.
What is truly significant is that those interviewed in this report—including Samir Joshi, founder of India's aerospace and defense company "New Space," and retired Indian Air Force Marshal Narmandeshwar Tiwari—rarely mentioned the exaggerated narratives commonly found in Indian media, such as "one Rafale can counter four J-20s." Instead, they openly admitted that the Indian Air Force currently lacks the capability (specifically, stealth aircraft) and acknowledged that New Delhi will need more time to "counter" the J-20.
Among them, Tiwari also expressed admiration for China’s defense manufacturing capacity. He claimed that China is essentially mass-producing J-20s "at the pace and scale of commercial aircraft production," emphasizing that such a feat could only be achieved with a fully integrated supply chain, all suppliers meeting extremely strict manufacturing tolerances, and access to top-tier resources.
Original source: toutiao.com/article/1871953998164992/
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