Key Points and Summary – The United States and China are now in a full-blown race to field operational sixth-generation fighters: Boeing’s F-47 and Chengdu’s J-36. -The F-47 is a twin-engine, tailless stealth design built for extreme low observability, long combat radius, and teaming with autonomous Collaborative Combat Aircraft.
New J-36 flight footage from China reveals rapid updates to the sixth-generation fighter prototype and highlights Beijing’s push for long-range air dominance.
In what is being reported as a surprise development, China has unveiled a new generation of crewed stealth combat aircraft that could redefine air combat dynamics and potentially challenge America’s aerial dominance in Asia.
The Chengdu J-36 fighterjet represents China’s ambitious leap into the sixth-generation fighter era, incorporating stealth, artificial intelligence, hypersonic capabilities, and electronic warfare into a next-generation air superiority platform.
When it debuted at an air show in Zhuhai, China, earlier this month, the J-31 fighter plane made an impression. Produced by a Chinese aviation company, Shenyang, the new jet took more than a...
On 26 December 2024, China surprised the world by flying two new prototypes of its sixth-generation fighter aircraft, the Chengdu J-36 and Shenyang J-XX/J-50.
The Chengdu J-36 (Chinese: 歼-36; pinyin: Jiān Sānliù) is a speculative designation given by military analysts to a trijet tailless diamond-double-delta winged aircraft under development by the Chengdu Aircraft Corporation (CAC).
On December 26, 2024, in broad daylight, China took to the skies with the test flights of two presumed sixth-generation delta-wing fighterjets. The more documented of the two, the Chengdu...
On December 26 in the city of Chengdu, China, a new generation, stealthy combat aircraft made by Chengdu Aerospace Corporation (CAC) had its maiden flight. Images and videos emerged in near real...
New images have emerged of one of China’s futuristic fighterjets, a three-engine, tailless flying wing aircraft that Western analysts have dubbed the J-36.