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China just flew a second prototype of a J-36 stealth aircraft with no tail, three engines, and a design that changed dramatically in months....
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China just flew a second prototype of a J-36 stealth aircraft with no tail, three engines, and a design that changed dramatically in months....
China ran a computer simulation of its best stealth fighter against America’s best — and gave its own jet deliberately worse specs. With drones...
The Air Force just permanently stationed its most advanced fighter in northern Japan, closer to China than ever before. There’s one problem — Taiwan...
China plans to build six more aircraft carriers in the next decade, bringing its fleet to nine. It has the world’s largest shipyards —...
A new wargame assessment conducted by the Mitchell Institute for Aerospace Studies has raised serious questions about the United States’ ability to defend Taiwan...
The Iran war will be assessed in the usual ways—targets hit, systems degraded, and what the ceasefire froze in place. That accounting misses where...
The Pentagon wants to buy more Tomahawk missiles — lots more of them. With hundreds of missiles fired at targets in Iran, stockpiles of...
When the People’s Liberation Army Air Force (PLAAF) inducted the J-20 into service in 2017, the aircraft marked China’s entry into fifth-generation airpower. But...
The People’s Liberation Army Navy (PLAN) has been modernizing and expanding at an astonishing rate. Its current inventory dwarfs the U.S. Navy in sheer...
China’s J-35A: The Stealth Fighter Built to Break America’s Airpower Advantage – The J-35A is China’s second fifth-generation stealth warplane. This system, like the American...