作战飞机是近百年来发展最快的武器装备。由于空中力量高势位的优越性这一本质特征,决定了作战飞机在21世纪仍将一如既往受到重视,并在现有技术基础上进一步快速发展和开辟新的性能增长领域。综合分析军事技术、作战理论等因素的发展变化,初步预测21世纪上半叶作战飞机将朝着以下方向发展。全面信息化是总体趋势随着人类步入信息时代,信息作战的需求牵引和信息技术发展的推动,作战飞机必将呈现出全面信息化这一总体趋势。 Combat aircraft are the fastest growing weaponry in nearly a hundred years. Owing to the essential nature of the superiority of the high-level airpower, it is decided that combat aircraft will continue to receive the same attention in the 21st century and further rapidly develop and open up new performance growth areas based on the existing technologies. Comprehensive analysis of military technology, operational theory and other factors in the development and changes, the initial forecast of the first half of the 21st century combat aircraft will move in the following direction. Comprehensive information is the overall trend With the human step into the information age, the demand for information combat traction and the promotion of information technology, combat aircraft will show the overall trend of comprehensive information.