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Published on September 25, 2017
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Achievements, freelance Chinese/English translator
In October 2016 China’s Aviation Industry Publishing
House openly published “Collection of Gu Songfen’s Articles” which reveals the
estimate of the progress and costs in developing J-20 by Gu Songfen, a fellow
of Chinese Academy of Engineering,
According to Gu, the total research and development costs
at the value of yuan in 2002 are 37.1 billion yuan including the making and
testing of 8 test and 6 pre-production prototypes. Research and development of
the fuselage costs 20 billion yuan, of engine, 6 billion yuan and of electronic
equipment and weapons on board, 7.5 billion and 3.6 billion yuan respectively.
The price of a single plane ranges from 450 to 500 million yuan, a little
higher than the US$35 million cost for the import of a Su-27. The cost is much
lower than that of F-22 and F-35, the EMD of which costs US$19.5 billion and
US$60 billion respectively.
Source: mil.news.sina.com.cn “Depth Column: Disclosure of
estimate of the cost of China’s 4th-generation fighter jet: Price of a J-20 is
perhaps 500 million yuan” (summary by Chan Kai Yee based on the article in
Chinese)
Original post: linkedin.com
Chengdu J-20: Details
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