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China Assembles Its Stealth Jet Fleet

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Beijing’s newest supersonic warplane could mark the end of the American monopoly on stealth fighter jets.

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China has apparently begun mass production of its new J-20 stealth fighter, making it only the second country in the world to produce radar-evading warplanes on a large scale.

But as with all military developments in China, it’s hard to separate fact from Communist Party-sponsored fiction—and equally difficult to predict just...

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