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 ...

Japan this week confirmed that two Chinese aircraft carriers have operated together for the first time in the Pacific.

Chinese aircraft carrier strike groups have been operating further from home shores and in greater strength than ever before, ...

China’s J-15 “Flying Shark,” its first operational carrier-based fighter, was developed by reverse-engineering an unfinished ...

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.

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 ...

Ironically, the J-7 and other Chinese copies of Cold War-era Soviet aircraft might achieve more success as drones than they did with a pilot in the cockpit.

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 ...

China's first joint air force exercise with U.S. ally Egypt featured advanced fighter jets, radar aircraft, and aerial refueling planes, highlighting Beijing's push to project power far into the ...

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’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.