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The Hainan Island incident was a ten-day international incident between the United States and the People’s Republic of China (PRC) that resulted from a mid-air collision between a United States Navy EP-3E ARIES II signals intelligence aircraft and a Chinese Air Force J-8II interceptor on April 1, 2001. The EP-3 was flying over the South China ...
The two Chengdu J-20s making their first public appearance at Airshow China 2016. The J-20 emerged from the late-1990s J-XX program. In 2008, the PLAAF endorsed Chengdu Aerospace Corporation 's proposal, Project 718. Chengdu had previously used the double-canard configuration in the J-9, its first design and cancelled in the 1970s, and the J-10 ...
An Republic of Korea Air Force F-35A jet fighter made an emergency "belly landing" at an air base after its landing gear malfunctioned due to electronic issues. Pilot did not eject and walked away from the accident. [115] 11 January An F-16V fighter of the Republic of China Air Force crashes into the sea near Aogu Wetland, Dongshi,Chiayi County ...
The Chengdu J-10 Vigorous Dragon (Chinese: 歼-10 猛龙; pinyin: Jiān-10 Měnglóng; NATO reporting name: Firebird [4] [5]), is a medium-weight 4.5 generation, single-engine, multirole combat aircraft capable of all-weather operations, configured with a delta wing and canard design, [6] with fly-by-wire flight controls, and produced by the Chengdu Aircraft Corporation (CAC) for the People's ...
J-6A – Single seat fighter. J-6B – Upgraded J-6A with two air-to-air missiles and removed the cannon. J-6C – Day fighter version with three 30mm cannon, braking parachute and domestic built engine. J-6III – Upgraded J-6A with radome on the splitter plate and domestic built radar. JJ-6 – Two-seat trainer.
In China: June 2007 – present. In Pakistan: January 2008 – present. Number built. 170 (production aircraft) The CAC/PAC JF-17 Thunder ( Urdu: جے ایف-17 گرج ), or FC-1 Xiaolong ( Chinese: 枭龙; pinyin: Xiāo Lóng; lit. 'Fierce Dragon'), is a lightweight, single-engine, multirole combat aircraft developed jointly by the Pakistan ...
The Chengdu J-7 ( Chinese: 歼-7; 3.5 generation export version F-7; NATO reporting name: Fishcan [1]) is a People's Republic of China fighter aircraft. It is a license-built version of the Soviet Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-21, and thus shares many similarities with that aircraft. [2] The aircraft is armed with short-range, infrared homing air-to-air ...
Photos and video have surfaced of an F-35C stealth fighter that crash-landed in the South China Sea on Monday. The F-35 was approaching the USS Carl Vinson aircraft carrier, ...