Key Points and Summary – China’s stealth push just jumped: the J-35 is beginning carrier ops, while purported 6th-gen prototypes—J-36 and J-50—have surfaced. They...
Key Points and Summary – China’s carrier-borne J-35 is the missing piece in Beijing’s blue-water ambitions. -Paired with the EMALS-equipped Fujian, the twin-engine stealth...
Key Points and Summary – China’s J-35 traces a straight line from the export-minded FC-31 prototype to a CATOBAR-ready, carrier-borne stealth fighter for the...
Key Points and Summary – China’s rapid, iterative development of its J-36 6th-gen fighter—with a second, drastically redesigned prototype appearing in less than a...
Key Points and Summary – A second prototype of China’s three-engine Chengdu J-36 has appeared near CAC’s Chengdu airfield, roughly ten months after the...
Key Points and Summary – China’s new J-35A 5th-generation stealth fighter is now rolling off production lines and operating from its Fujian aircraft carrier,...