Popular Mechanics: China's New Upgrade Makes Its Fighter Jets Wildly Maneuverable
The J-10 fighter plane gets thrust vector control, a technology that allows for wild acrobatic aerial maneuvers.
China's J-10 fighter is now equipped with thrust vectoring controls that allow the jet to perform seemingly impossible aerial maneuvers. This long-rumored upgrade to a well-known jet fighter made its debut at the Zhuhai Air Show.
The Chengdu J-10 “Vigorous Dragon” is a single-engine fighter developed for China’s People’s Liberation Army Air Force (the Chinese air force). The J-10 falls in the same general category as the American F-16, and the two planes even share the same DNA, as the Chinese jet was built with Israeli assistance from Israel’s F-16-based Lavi fighter. However, in some technological respects, China's plane is about fifteen years behind the F-16 platform, and even further behind modern fighters like the F-35.
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