The Debrief: Pentagon Belatedly Corrects Miscounted Chinese Fighter Fleet

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China has not started exporting the J-20 stealth fighter, but displayed Chengdu's flagship combat aircraft in Paris alongside several other fighter models.

A security clearance and a need to know get you access to the classified assessments at the National Air and Space Intelligence Center (NASIC), the U.S. Air Force organization chartered to, among other things, count how many fighters are currently operated by the Chinese military, using all the...
Steve Trimble

Steve covers military aviation, missiles and space for the Aviation Week Network, based in Washington DC.

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