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China showcases air power, J-20 stealth fighter makes maiden appearance at Airshow China

Chinese Military Put Up An Elaborate Display Of Its Air Strike Capabilities By Showcasing The Chengdu J-20 Stealth Fighter For The First Time In Public Domain On Tuesday.

News Nation Bureau | Edited By : Gautam Lalotra | Updated on: 01 Nov 2016, 01:19:33 PM
China's Chengdu J-20 stealth fighter - File Photo

New Delhi:

Chinese military put up an elaborate display of its air strike capablities by showcasing the Chengdu J-20 stealth fighter for the first time in public domain on Tuesday.

The Chengdu J-20 stealth fighter made its maiden apperance at Airshow China, the country's biggest meeting of aircraft makers and buyers in the southern city of Zhuhai. 

Airshow China, offers Beijing an opportunity to demonstrate its ambitions in civil aerospace and to underline its defence ambitions. China is set to overtake the U.S. as the world's top aviation market in the next decade. 

Two J-20 jets, Zhuhai's headline act, swept over dignitaries and hundreds of spectators and industry executives gathered at the show's opening ceremony in a 60-second flypast, generating a deafening roar that was met with gasps and applause and set off car alarms in a parking lot at the site. 

"It is clearly a big step forward in Chinese combat capability," said Bradley Perrett of Aviation Week, a veteran China watcher. 

Analysts say it is too early to say to what extent the new Chinese fighter can match the radar-evading properties of the Lockheed Martin F-22 Raptor air-to-air combat jet, developed for the U.S. Air Force and the J-20's closest lookalike, or the latest strike jet in the U.S. arsenal, Lockheed's F-35. 

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First Published : 01 Nov 2016, 01:01:00 PM

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