The Chinese and Egyptian air forces recently participated in a joint exercise – Eagle of Civilisation, which ran between mid-April and early May at Wadi Abu Rish Air Base in Egypt.
Four months after the maiden flights of the Chengdu J-36 and Shenyang J-XDS not only have further test flights been completed, but more and significantly better photos are available of the two Chinese prototypes, or demonstrators for the PLAAF’s ‘next’ generation of fighters.