by Robert Beckhusen | Sep 28, 2012 | Monitor
Exporting aerospace-grade carbon fiber isn’t easy, as it can be used to build military planes like the F-22 Raptor. Photo: Air Force The U.S. has busted up a plot to smuggle tons of carbon fiber to China, where the material would ostensibly be used in the...
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...
