Chengdu J-20

The Chengdu J-20, also called Weilong and given the NATO reporting name Fagin, is a twin-engine all-weather stealth fighter developed by Chengdu Aircraft Corporation for the People's Liberation Army Air Force. It descends from the J-XX program of the 1990s, made its first flight on 11 January 2011, was publicly shown at the 2016 China International Aviation and Aerospace Exhibition and entered service in March 2017, which made China the second country to field an operational stealth aircraft. It is designed as an air superiority fighter with precision strike capability, and it has three notable variants: the initial production model, a revised airframe with new engines and thrust vectoring, and a twin-seat version able to team with other aircraft. Early aircraft used Russian AL-31F engines, production from mid-2019 moved to the Chinese Shenyang WS-10C, and the WS-15 is the planned engine.