Fierce Dragon Fighter Gets a Restart

in the news | January 22, 2015

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Peter Warren Singer:

A new FC-1 light fighter, numbered "0213", rolls out of the Chengdu Aviation Corporation factory in January 2015. The "Fierce Dragon" FC-1 multirole fighter is a joint Sino-Pakistan project, and has a maximum takeoff weight of 12.7 tons, a payload of 4.5 tons, a combat radius of over 800 miles and a Mach 1.8 top speed.