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SKorean military pushes stealth production (video)

By Mon, Jan 31, 2011 10:21AM UTC View Comments

Asia’s stealth arms race has just heated up a little more. With China pushing ahead with its stealth fighter program, South Korea’s military is now hoping to cut a year off the development time for its own next generation fighter.  Seoul has an additional impetus for trying to speed up its program: “There has been a...

Taiwanese officials cast doubt on Chinese stealth capability

By Fri, Jan 07, 2011 5:15AM UTC View Comments

Yesterday, I reported that China was apparently developing stealth aircraft technology at a faster pace than American military officials had expected. The Chinese J-20 stealth fighter (or more likely, a fighter-bomber along the lines of the American F-111) made its public debut last month while making taxi tests the Chengdu Aircraft Design Institute’s airfield in southern...

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