There has been a very fascinating twist on the Chengdu J-10 development lately. For about the last three years there has been a lot of speculation about a planned upgraded version of the J-10. The baseline model that's now in service with the PLAAF is the J-10A with the two seater designated J-10AS (the "S" being a Chinese word for two seater, I think).

The upgraded version was the J-10B (though some Western publications call the J-10AS the J-10B) and there had been a lot...

The following sneak peek was published in an issue of the German aviation magazine Flieger Revue several months ago:


The article being previewed is a short update on the status of the newest attack helicopter in the world, WZ-10, a development of several Chinese aerospace companies including the Changhe Aircraft Industries Group (CAIG), the China Helicopter Research and Development Institute...

Last up the ongoing series of profile illustrations that I have posted previously that I did for Andreas Rupprecht's articles in Flieger Revue Extra, this is the Xian JH-7 as it was orignally intended for the PLAAF:


The original design for the Xian JH-7 has its roots in the same circumstances that led to the development of the Nanchang Q-6 that I had posted yesterday. In 1977 the Chinese...

Continuing the ongoing series of profile illustrations that I have posted previously that I did for Andreas Rupprecht's articles in Flieger Revue Extra, here is the next unbuilt design in the series, the Nanchang Q-6 swing-wing fighter-bomber:




The Nanchang Q-6 fighter-bomber had its genesis in the Battle of Hoang Sa which took place in January 1974 in the disputed Paracel Islands...

This is the Shenyang J-13 from around the late-1970s or so timeframe. It was a further development of the failed J-11 project I posted previously- in switching from the Spey engine to an...

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This was posted over on the Secret Projects forum:

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If you're looking for a US source for Flieger Revue and Flieger Revue Extra, Linden Hill may be a good option. I've not used them myself, but if anyone does, I'd like...

This is the Chengdu J-9 in all-white prototype colors. The J-9 was a canard delta wing fighter with a single engine. The design dates from the 1970s and had...

Continuing on the series of illustrations I did for Flieger Revue on Andreas Rupprecht's series on Chinese combat aircaft (the previous installment, the Nanchang Q-5B, can be found here.), below are three developments of the Xian H-6 bomber, the Chinese version of the venerable Tupolev Tu-16 "Badger":


These three designs are from Xian and are all based on the...