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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...
America and China agree the future of air combat is a stealth fighter directing a swarm of drones. They disagree on who commands it....
The J-20 Mighty Dragon Stealth Fighter Keeps Getting Better: Entering service in the mid-2010s, the Chengdu J-20 Mighty Dragon is China’s first operational stealth...
China’s J-20 Fighter Is a Powerful Stealth Warplane Thanks to Missiles and New Weapons It Carries That The U.S. Air Force Would Be Hard-pressed...
China’s Carrier Killer J-20S Doesn’t Actually Need to Sink Carriers In November 2022, China publicly unveiled the twin-seat variant of its flagship fighter, the...
Summary and Key Points: Steve Balestrieri, a former US Army Special Forces officer and national security columnist, evaluates the Chengdu J-20 and new J-20S,...
Summary and Key Points – Brandon J. Weichert, Senior National Security Editor at 19FortyFive, analyzes how China’s new Chengdu J-20S—the world’s first two-seat fifth-generation...
The Chengdu J-20S "Mighty Dragon" has evolved into a sophisticated aerial command center, signaling a paradigm shift in the People’s Liberation Army Air Force...
Summary and Key Points: China’s new two-seat J-20S is built for combat, not training—pairing a pilot with a mission-systems officer to run sensors, electronic...
Summary and Key Points: On February 10, 2026, Chinese officials presented a J-20 stealth fighter model to the Commander of the IRIAF in Tehran,...