by David Axe | Oct 31, 2012 | Monitor
The J-31 on its debut flight. Photo: via China Defense Mashup China’s newest stealth fighter prototype reportedly took off on its first test flight over the Shenyang Aircraft Company airfield in northeastern China on Wednesday morning. The 10-minute aerial debut...
by Spencer Ackerman | Oct 16, 2012 | Monitor
The Pentagon has picked next summer’s Man of Steel film to be the cinematic debut of the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter, shown here in a 2011 ceremony at Eglin Air Force Base, Florida. Photo: Flickr/DVIDS Faster than a sluggish bureaucracy. More powerful than enemy...
by David Axe | Sep 17, 2012 | Monitor
Liaoning, left, and the J-21. Photos: Chinese Internet via China Defense Blog and Shanghaiist The U.S. knows very little about China’s newest stealth fighter prototype, the Shenyang J-21. But the just-released photographs of the Chinese jet reveal it to have a...
by David Axe | Sep 16, 2012 | Monitor
Shenyang J-21. Photo: via China Defense Blog Here we go again. Twenty-one months after China’s Chengdu aerospace firm unveiled its J-20 jet fighter prototype — Beijing’s first stealth warplane — the rival Shenyang company has revealed what...
by David Axe | Sep 14, 2012 | Monitor
An F-35 over Eglin Air Force base in 2009. Photo: Air Force The latest high-level Pentagon review of the trillion-dollar F-35 Joint Strike Fighter program did not go well for the Lockheed Martin-built JSF. But don’t tell the Air Force that. The flying branch is...
