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David Axe, Daily Beast: China Assembles Its Stealth Jet Fleet
Beijing’s newest supersonic warplane could mark the end of the American monopoly on stealth fighter jets.
China has apparently begun mass production of its new J-20 stealth fighter, making it only the second country in the world to produce radar-evading warplanes on a large scale.
But as with all military developments in China, it’s hard to separate fact from Communist Party-sponsored fiction—and equally difficult to predict just how heavily even large numbers of working J-20s could weigh on the military balance of power in the Pacific region.
The Chinese air force debuted the first prototype of the bulky, twin-engine, twin-tail J-20 in December 2010 at an airfield in southeast China belonging to the Chengdu Aerospace Corp., a state-owned airplane-maker.
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WNU Editor: China still has a long way to go .... but they are definitely determined to have a fleet of "stealth fighters" in the future.
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