Thread: China May Be Flight Testing A V/STOL Fighter
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Old April 24th 11, 07:08 AM posted to rec.aviation.military,sci.military.naval,rec.aviation.military.naval
Dennis[_6_]
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Default China May Be Flight Testing A V/STOL Fighter
dumpster wrote:

"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...ting-a-vstol-f
ighter/

and

http://www.defensenews.com/story.php...65&c=ASI&s=AIR

I presume this is for their new/old aircraft carrier.

Dennis