Forbes: Coming Soon—A New Stealth Fighter For China’s New Aircraft Carrier
The Chinese navy could reveal its new naval fighter this year, officials said at an air show in southern China.
Observers widely expect this new carrier-compatible plane to be a derivative of the FC-31 stealth fighter that the Shenyang Aircraft Corporation developed for export, but which has never found a foreign buyer.
It’s apparent, however, that the People’s Liberation Army Navy isn’t counting on the unproven FC-31 to populate the deck of its first supercarrier, the thousand-foot-long Type 003 that’s nearing completion at a shipyard in Shanghai.
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2 comments:
F-35 is already have more than 700 copies. With 156 copy made a year is making the FC-31 very backward.
LMFAO good luck with that, thing wouldn't make it off the deck.
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