China Shows Teaser of Next-Gen Fighter jet in AVIC Video

The Aviation Industry Corporation of China (AVIC) showed the teaser of what could be the country's future fighter jet.

The aircraft looked like the J-20 stealth fighter jet, but with no canards, tails or fins, and the diamond-shaped wings appeared bigger than those of the J-20, giving it what seems to be a blended wing-body configuration.

The teaser video was published in the WeChat video channel of the AVIC on Wednesday.

At the Airshow China 2022 held in Zhuhai, South China’s Guangdong Province in November 2022, AVIC put on display a concept model of a next-generation fighter jet, which also had a tailless design like the aircraft shown in the latest video.

A tailless design will give the next-generation, or the sixth-generation, fighter jet superior stealth capability in all directions than current fifth-generation ones, and a blended wing body design will provide higher lift, longer range and lower fuel consumption, unnamed analysts were quoted as saying in Global Times.

To compensate for the absence of vertical tails, the new aircraft will have to use novel designs and technologies, like thrust vectoring control-capable engines and split brake rudders, or other innovative approaches, analysts said.