China has taken another step when it comes to combat aircraft and has just presented a new generation airplane. Featuring a triangular-shaped tailless delta wing design, it has three air intakes, two laterally mounted fixed geometry air intakes and a dorsal air intake for a high-performance engine during extreme operations such as supersonic or sustained high-speed flight. altitude, as indicated in .
In the German media Welt they add that the moment of presenting it is nothing new, since it coincides with the birthday of former Chinese president Mao Tse-tung. The plane, they point out, appeared one day out of nowhere in the airspace and social networks were in charge of showing it.
According to Welt, several experts suspect that it is the first modern fighter aircraft with three engines. Although not everyone agrees. For example, on theavionist.com they say that it may not be a sixth-generation fighter aircraft, but the new JH-XX stealth bomber.
Although China has not yet commented anything officially, the German media claims that it has been known for some time that the country is working on a sixth-generation aircraft, an airplane that would surpass the American F-35 stealth aircraft, with one engine, and also the Eurofigher or the F-22, the most powerful combat aircraft in the United States, with two engines.
As reported by Welt, the Chinese project for this plane is called “White Emperor” or Baidi and, the newspaper says, behind this is Beijing’s objective of dominating both airspace and near-Earth space, since The plane would even be capable of passing through the atmosphere.