Aerospace & Defense
While everyone knows about the iconic F-22 Raptor and the ubiquitous F-35 Lightning II, China’s Chengdu J-20 (as well as their J-35) fifth-generation warplane...
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While everyone knows about the iconic F-22 Raptor and the ubiquitous F-35 Lightning II, China’s Chengdu J-20 (as well as their J-35) fifth-generation warplane...
The J-35A grew from a company-funded FC-31 demonstrator into the PLAAF’s second stealth fighter. Its publicly known performance may not match the F-22’s kinematics...
Satellite imagery taken in late June and early July indicates eleven J-20 fighters at two Chinese bases near the disputed border with India —...
New July 2026 imagery may show a fifth distinct J-36 airframe and a third major visible configuration. Since December 2024, China has changed the...
When the J-20 entered service in 2017, the airframe, sensors and weapons were Chinese and the engines were not. Initial aircraft flew on Russian...
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...