J-50 designers reveal leapfrog tech for China’s next-gen stealth fighters

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The Shenyang Aircraft Design & Research Institute revealed advanced technologies for China's next-generation J-50 stealth fighter. Notable capabilities include autonomous flight if pilots lose consciousness, satellite-free navigation, and coordinated drone swarms.

China’s next-generation combat aircraft will be able to fly by themselves if a pilot loses consciousness, navigate without satellite signals and operate in self-reorganising large drone formations. That is the plan laid out by researchers from the Shenyang Aircraft Design & Research Institute, a top Chinese military aircraft design organisation, in a paper last month. The institute is associated with the development of the Chinese next-generation aircraft commonly referred to as the J-50, which...