
United States, "Defense News" weekly published April 22 in Taipei Office published journal Wendell - Minnick (WendellMinnick) entitled "China is developing short-range VTOL fighter?" Article. The article said that the situation from a military blog said, China is likely to test flight earlier this month the J -18 "Red Eagle" short-range vertical takeoff and landing aircraft.
China's defense industry is often mysterious to the outside world the impression that the relevant information online and therefore difficult to confirm. However, this has revealed some of the Chinese military blog about J -20 "Black Hawk" fighter secret test flight of the situation, so that foreign media by surprise. Now, there was the situation on the F-test messages -18; the outside world that the test should be implemented earlier this month, the models and the Russian Sukhoi Su -33 series aircraft similar.
Data for: network transmission is the J-15 carrier aircraft flight
According to well-known Washington think tank - "International Assessment and Strategy Center," deputy director of the China military expert manager Chad - Fisher (RichardFisher), in 2005, he employed a Chinese aviation industry was informed by the Chengdu Aircraft Industrial companies are planning a similar F-35B stealth fighter project. Taking into account the sea, the Chinese there are also vertical STOL aircraft development projects possible.
But at the same time, he also pointed out that in the Chinese-language blog, there are many rumors on the aircraft manufacturing project is difficult to confirm. Including the news that the stealth fighter F -16 in the Shenyang Aircraft Industry Company (SAC) off the assembly line; and compared to the F-11B (-27 Su similar) heavy multi-role fighter, the stealth fighter is more remarkable in and equipped with automatic electronic scanning phased array radar and a built-in weapons bay and will be manufactured this summer.
This summer, China's first aircraft carrier will be launching trials. Analysts believe that, as a replica of the Soviet Union -33 "air shark" F-15, is the future of China's first aircraft carrier to take off directly from the fighters. In 2001, the Shenyang Aircraft Industry Company has made the Soviet Union from the Ukraine earlier prototype -33. Reported that the F -15 were completed by mid 2009, the first test flight.
Meanwhile, some unidentified sources have disclosed that the Chinese military blog on F -17 F -19 fighter project and fuzzy information. According to reports, J -17 is a kind of Russian Sukhoi Su-34 fighter-bombers based remote; and J -19 J-11B is based on a prototype heavy-duty multi-function fighter.
China's defense industry is often mysterious to the outside world the impression that the relevant information online and therefore difficult to confirm. However, this has revealed some of the Chinese military blog about J -20 "Black Hawk" fighter secret test flight of the situation, so that foreign media by surprise. Now, there was the situation on the F-test messages -18; the outside world that the test should be implemented earlier this month, the models and the Russian Sukhoi Su -33 series aircraft similar.
According to the famous think tank in Washington - "International Assessment and Strategy Center," deputy director of the China military expert, Richard - Fisher (RichardFisher), in 2005, he employed a Chinese aviation industry was informed, Chengdu Aircraft Industrial Corporation is planning a similar F-35B stealth fighter project. Taking into account the sea, the Chinese there are also vertical STOL aircraft development projects possible