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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...
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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...
The debate over China's J-20 has always been whether it can beat the F-22 or F-35 in a fight. This analysis argues that's the...
For over a decade, China's J-20 had a fifth-generation airframe and a fourth-generation problem: it couldn't get the engine it was designed for, flying...
America and China agree the future of air combat is a stealth fighter directing a swarm of drones. They disagree on who commands it....
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...