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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]
China has two stealth fighter aircraft, Chengdu J-20 and Shenyang J-35, both classified as fifth-generation fighter by United States Department of Defense. [53] By the late 1990s, several Chinese fifth-generation fighter programs, grouped under the program codename J-XX or XXJ, were identified by western intelligence sources. PLAAF officials ...
However, a year later, in May 2010, United States intelligence stated that Chinese 5th generation fighter jets will be expected around 2018. [16] In 2011, Gates changed his position to state that China may have 50 stealth fighters by 2020 and a couple of hundred by 2025.
The Five Eyes Air Force Interoperability Council (AFIC) assigns [1] codenames for fighters and other military aircraft originating in, or operated by, the air forces of the former Warsaw Pact, including Russia, and the People's Republic of China.
China has declassified its latest stealth fighter jet, making it only the second country after the US to possess two types of such aircraft.. The J-35A is set to be shown to the public at the ...
Another variant, the J-35, is designed for use with China's aircraft carriers. ... Both J-35 variants are considerably smaller than China's other stealth aircraft, the land-based J-20 fighter. An ...
In March 2023, the executive of Aero Engine Corporation of China (AECC) announced the serial production of the WS-15 had started and China "[tackled] all technical bottlenecks" with the WS-15. [ 9 ] [ 10 ] FlightGlobal speculated that small-scale production run and in-flight testing with the J-20 fighter was underway. [ 11 ]
Taiwan's defence ministry said it had detected 22 Chinese military aircraft, including J-16 fighter jets, carrying out a "joint combat readiness patrol" around Taiwan in conjunction with Chinese ...