With all the hoopla about China’s new fifth-gen fighter this week, we asked Teal Group aviation analyst Richard Aboulafia for his take on how serious a threat the J-20/J-XX is to the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter in air-to-air combat and as a competitor on the global fast jet market. Rumor has it the J-20 is […]
From the monthly archives:
December 2010
Happy New Year’s Eve, everyone! Here’s one more example of new China’s fast modernizing military tech. Smoke coming from the stack of ex-Soviet aircraft carrier Varyag (now the Shi Lang) that’s being rapidly converted into what’s assumed to be China’s first operational carrier. The ship’s come a long way in the last 10 years. Just […]
The final version of the OP Topside and COP Kahler — aka Wanat — ambush report has been completed and released. The 274 page report is chock full of great information and detailed accounts of the action and fallout of the attack which killed nine and wounded more than two dozen. We’ve done a lot […]
So it happened, late yesterday the Navy gave out a pair of $430 million contracts for Lockheed and Austal to start work on the first two ships of what should be a split buy of 20 Littoral Combat Ships from both companies. The service is kicking off the dual buy with a $430 million, fixed-price contract to […]
J-20, it’s real and it’s doing high-speed ground runs. More outstanding pics here.
