The Chinese People’s Liberation Army Air Force (PLAAF) is showcasing its new Y-20 cargo plane, a C-17-like transport plane reportedly engineered to support amphibious attacks. The new plane can ...

Summary and Key Points: Chinese pilot Chen Liu ... The public interview indicates the People's Liberation Army Air Force's (PLAAF) confidence in the J-20 program, urging the U.S. to prepare ...

Japanese aircraft purportedly used fire-control radars to lock onto two PLAAF warplanes flying over the East China Sea. The number of sorties flown to ward off Chinese intrusions into Japan’s ...

What's the current status of the J-20 and what may lie in the stealth fighter’s future going into the 2020s? The impact of the recent flight of four nuclear-capable bombers on regional strategic ...

The first female pilot recruited by the People’s Liberation Army (PLA) Air Force in China’s Xizang (Tibet) Autonomous Region has attracted wide attention. According to data from the National ...

The first female pilot recruited by the People's Liberation Army (PLA) Air Force in China's Xizang (Tibet) Autonomous Region has attracted wide attention. In recent years, a large number of women ...

The People's Liberation Army Navy (PLAN) is accelerating the growth of its carrier aviation force. The highlights have ...

KE JIANGTAO/FOR CHINA DAILY The People's Liberation ... arranged its pilots to conduct multiple training maneuvers from an airport on an island in the South China Sea. A PLA Air Force fighter ...

The J-16 is in service only with the PLAAF (People’s Liberation Army Air Force, Chinese Air Force). The number of produced airframes is unknown, but estimates vary between 245 in 2022 to over ...