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The usual framing of the air balance in the Western Pacific is stealth against stealth. That is not what the Air Force is actually...
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The usual framing of the air balance in the Western Pacific is stealth against stealth. That is not what the Air Force is actually...
For most of its history China's aviation industry could design an airframe it could not power. The J-20 flew on Russian AL-31 engines, which...
China's fifth-generation fleet has crossed a threshold no Western planner can ignore, and the number is still climbing. The latest J-20s carry new radars,...
China's aerospace industry did something that looked impossible 20 years ago: it built one of the world's largest stealth-fighter fleets. But the J-20's greatest...
For fifteen years, China's premier stealth fighter flew on engines that could not deliver the speed its airframe was shaped for. Now Chengdu is...
Chinese commentators are mocking the canards on the F-47 renderings as a stealth mistake. Hanging in a museum in Ohio is a small gray...
The WS-20 turbofan ended China's dependence on Russian engines — and Y-20B production is now outpacing both the U.S. and Russia on heavy transports.
For 18 months, everything the public knew about China's J-36 came from enthusiast photographs. Over the weekend, Beijing put the secretive tailless fighter on...
China's J-20 "Mighty Dragon" is the only fifth-generation fighter in service built without a gun, a deliberate bet that stealth and long-range missiles have...
China, despite aggressively exporting a wide variety of military hardware, is unlikely to ever export the J-20 Mighty Dragon stealth fighter. While international interest...