"We heard a little chatter about this earlier in the month;
apparently China is test flying its own vertical/short take-off
and landing fighter jet dubbed the J-18. According to my
old colleague Wendell Minnick at Defense News, the jet is
similar in appearance to Russia’s Su-33 carrier based
evolution of Sukhoi’s famous Su-27 line."
See:
http://defensetech.org/2011/04/22/ch...vstol-fighter/
and
http://www.defensenews.com/story.php...65&c=ASI&s=AIR