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China's futuristic stealth fighter
The Sunday Guardian
|January 05, 2025
Coinciding with Mao Zedong's 131st birth anniversary on 26 December 2024, China revealed two cutting-edge stealth aircraft, drawing global attention for their potential to revolutionize next-generation air combat.
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These aircraft, seemingly sixth-generation designs, showcase China's swift progress in aerospace technology and present notable challenges for the US and its allies in sustaining its air superiority. The US-based "The War Zone" website while reporting on the test, in Jan 2011.12 40,000 tons and electromagnetic catapult system.
The feverish acquisition of the KJ-500-the PRC's most advanced airborne early warning and control (AEW&C) aircraft, fifthgeneration J-20 stealth fighters, its third aircraft carrier that is expected to enter operational service in 2025, over a dozen nuclear-powered submarines geared towards the "intelligentized warfare" is part and parcel of "the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation," "China Dream," and "Chinese modernization" by 2049, the time when the People's Liberation Army (PLA) would be transformed into a worldclass force fully equipped to use AI, quantum computing, big data and advanced technologies.
The same is demonstrated by China's concentrated display of 36 types of weapons and equipment including lion for the first time and 'Force, according to the DoD 2024 report.
In Xi Jinping's new era, the People's Liberation e. Army (PLA) has witnessed 'n-k, amartongmunication in 2024. To the people across the Taiwan Strait, Xi said, "our blood ties cannot be severed, nor can anyone hinder the hisstrike integrated unmanned aerial vehicle, as reported by the Sina.com. The sixth generation fighter named "White emperor" ( ) was also introduced as a mockup at Airshow.
This story is from the January 05, 2025 edition of The Sunday Guardian.
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