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China’s J-35 signals a new problem for carrier air wings

Carrier aviation has a new math problem. China’s J-35 matters not simply because it is another stealth fighter, but because it arrives as part of a carrier ecosystem that changes what a naval air wing ...
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China’s J-35 shift signals a carrier air wing problem for US planners

What changes when a carrier force that once relied on ski-jump launches begins throwing stealth fighters and fixed-wing radar aircraft off electromagnetic catapults? That question now sits at the ...