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The Chengdu J-10 Vigorous Dragon (Chinese: 歼-10 猛龙; pinyin: Jiān-10 Měnglóng; NATO reporting name: Firebird [5] [6]), is a medium-weight, single-engine, multirole combat aircraft using a delta wing and canard design. [3]
J10/2, 4 [4] J10/4, 38 [5] J10/6, 36 [6] BR numbers were 65126–65209 (with gaps). In the 1950s, some of them were sent to work at sheds once belonged to the LMS, the L&YR, and the LNWR. They were also reported to be popular with ex-LMS employees. All locomotives had been withdrawn by 1961 with the last one in service No. 65157 going in August ...
Ordnance crest "WHAT'S IN A NAME" - military education about SNL. This is a historic (index) list of United States Army weapons and materiel, by their Standard Nomenclature List (SNL) group and individual designations — an alpha-numeric nomenclature system used in the United States Army Ordnance Corps Supply Catalogues used from about 1930 to about 1958.
Chinese officials on Thursday said they oppose the recent U.S. approval of $619 million in military sales to Taiwan, saying it violates Beijing’s claims to the self-ruled island and raises ...
The Chengdu J-20 (Chinese: 歼-20; pinyin: Jiān-Èrlíng), also known as Mighty Dragon (Chinese: 威龙; pinyin: Wēilóng, [8] [9] [10] NATO reporting name: Fagin), [11] is a twin-engine all-weather stealth [12] fighter developed by China's Chengdu Aircraft Corporation for the People's Liberation Army Air Force (PLAAF). [5]
Based on experience from the Vietnam War, the PLAAF issued a requirement in 1969 for a STOL light fighter to replace the Shenyang J-6 and Nanchang Q-5.The proposal from the Shenyang Aircraft Design Institute and Shenyang Aircraft Factory was designated "J-11"; it resembled a French Dassault Mirage F1 and was powered by a British Rolls-Royce Spey 512 engine.
The Class J9s were based on the GNR Class J10, but featured wider cabs and used a different diameter boiler. [1] Ten units were built in 1896, whilst later on, the Class J10s were refitted with the J9's boiler. [1]
The IAI Lavi (Hebrew: לביא, "lion") is a single-engined fourth-generation multirole jet fighter developed in Israel, by Israel Aircraft Industries (IAI), during the 1980s.