But China's aircraft carriers limit the advantages of the J-15. The Liaoning and Shandong, which carry complements of J-15 jets, use ski-jump-assisted short-takeoff launch systems over catapults.

FC-31 Gyrfalcon: China's New Stealth Fighter for Aircraft Carriers. China's Shenyang FC-31 Gyrfalcon (also known as the Jian31 or J-31) has been described on more than one occasion as being a copy ...

While China’s Shenyang J-35 and the American F-35 Lightning II share a visual resemblance, they represent different design ...

That's a lot of experience that went into designing America's stealth aircraft, and China is still catching up to its Western rivals. While the J-35A looks like a clone of the F-35, it features ...

Taiwan's China Airlines is postponing the retirement of some of its older aircraft due to delays in getting Boeing 787-9 jets ...

A comparison of the landing gear of North Korea's Saetbyul-4 with China's J-7 fighter jet, as prepared by Kim Minseok on January 17, 2024. North Korea's new drones appear to have repurposed land ...

CAC’s new aircraft has broken cover, with a twin-seat J-20S flying as its chase aircraft, although observers are still debating whether this is the rumored sixth-generation fighter aircraft or ...

It already has the world’s largest navy, but new satellite imagery shows that China is developing a huge nuclear-powered aircraft carrier that would rival the biggest vessel in the American ...

China is claiming a historic win this week after its answer to Boeing and Airbus, the C919, took to the skies for its first commercial flight. Beijing calls the aircraft its first large homegrown ...

China’s Shenyang FC-31 Gyrfalcon (also known as the Jian31 or J-31) has been described on more than one occasion as being a copy of the United States military’s Lockheed Martin F-35 Lightning II.