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American analysts keep mirror-imaging China's J-20 as a rival dogfighter to the F-22. That's the wrong lens. The Mighty Dragon is evolving into a...
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American analysts keep mirror-imaging China's J-20 as a rival dogfighter to the F-22. That's the wrong lens. The Mighty Dragon is evolving into a...
Commercial satellites caught China's fighter plants adding eight million square feet — enough to build 100-plus stealth fighters a year while the F-22 line...
The satellite imagery doesn’t lie. China’s Chengdu facility is running five production lines. The J-20 fleet has crossed 300 aircraft. Annual output runs between...
MANILA – It’s official, the Shenyang J-35 stealth fighter aircraft carrier variant now has a new name. The service nickname given to the aircraft...
The Bottomline: The Shenyang Aircraft Corporation FC-31 stealth fighter — first flown in 2012 and marketed to international military customers under the export designation...
The U.S. Air Force is flying retired F-117A Nighthawk stealth fighters as threat-representative aircraft in Red Flag wargaming exercises, simulating China’s Chengdu J-20 and...
As China’s fifth-generation airpower continues to grow, the United States is once again trying to understand an adversary aircraft it has never seen in...
Key Points: Forget the J-20. Forget the Fujian-class carrier. Forget the DF-41 missiles and the 2-million-man Army and the largest navy on Earth. The...
China is the only country besides America with two operational stealth fighters. The J-20 entered service in 2017. The J-35 joined in 2025. Neither...
450 F-35s in Europe by 2030. 300 J-20s in China and Growing. The Race Is On.