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New Chinese Stealth Fighter Photos Emerge By Bethany Whitfield / Published: Sep 20, 2012 The new Chinese stealth fighter, believed to be the J-21. Photos of what appears to be a new Chinese stealth fighter recently surfaced on the Internet, triggering a flood of speculation regarding the jet’s potential capabilities and what implications it holds for the evolution of Chinese military air power. The single-seat, twin-engine fighter has been designated as the J-21 or the J-31, and is the product of Shenyang Aircraft Corp.

How Not To Think About The J-20 Posted by Bill Sweetman at 12/30/2010 10:50 AM CST Now that the last few skeptics have been converted to the idea that the J-20 is a real airplane, and not the product of a network of Chinese teenage boys armed with Photoshop, the internetz are rife with speculation about the project's schedule, technology and capabilities. Much of it is both premature and misguided, the result of several basic errors in analysis, politics and prejudice. The first mistake is "mirror imaging". The Tu-22M Backfire was not a B-1, but the USAF wanted it to...