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Developed from. Shenyang J-11. The Shenyang J-16 Hidden Dragon ( Chinese: 歼-16 潜龙, Pīnyīn: Jiān-16 Qián Lóng; NATO reporting name: Flanker-N[ 2]) is a Chinese 4.5 generation, [ 3] tandem-seat, twinjet, multirole strike fighter [ 4][ 1] built by Shenyang Aircraft Corporation and operated by the People's Liberation Army Air Force ...
The General Dynamics F-16 Fighting Falcon is an American single-engine supersonic multirole fighter aircraft originally developed by General Dynamics for the United States Air Force (USAF). Designed as an air superiority day fighter, it evolved into a successful all-weather multirole aircraft with over 4,600 built since 1976. [ 4 ]
In 1968, a Soviet November-class submarine reportedly tracked an American carrier group traveling at 31 knots (57 km/h; 36 mph). [63] Uncrewed torpedo speed claims range from 60 knots (110 km/h; 69 mph) for the British Spearfish torpedo [64] to 200 knots (370 km/h; 230 mph) for the Russian VA-111 Shkval. [65
The comfortable hopping speed for a kangaroo is about 21–26 km/h (13–16 mph), but speeds of up to 71 km/h (44 mph) can be attained over short distances, while it can sustain a speed of 40 km/h (25 mph) for nearly 2 km (1.2 mi). [85]
Shenyang Aircraft Corporation has officially confirmed that J-31 will eventually install the Guizhou WS-19 turbofan engine, which is a fundamentally new design incorporating similar technology as the J-20's Xian WS-15, and has a maximum thrust of 10 tonnes-force (98.1 kN), compared to the interim WS-13 whose thrust is 9 tonnes-force (88.3 kN ...
Powered by a Guizhou WS-13 or Klimov RD-93 afterburning turbofan, it has a top speed of Mach 1.6. [3] The JF-17 is the backbone and workhorse of the PAF, complementing the Lockheed Martin F-16 Fighting Falcon at approximately half the cost, [4] with the Block II variant costing $25 million. [3] The JF-17 was inducted in the PAF in February 2010 ...
ThrustSSC, driven by Royal Air Force pilot Andy Green, holds the current land speed record at 1,227.986 km/h (763.035 mph) set October 15, 1997. The land speed record ( LSR) or absolute land speed record is the highest speed achieved by a person using a vehicle on land. By a 1964 agreement between the Fédération Internationale de l'Automobile ...
The twin-seat variant of J-20, named J-20S, J-20AS or J-20B by defense analysts, [51] is a version of J-20 in development. [47] J-20S was first spotted in October 2021, taxiing inside a Chengdu Aircraft Corporation facility in yellow primer paint and untreated composite, [ 205 ] [ 206 ] making it the first twin-seat stealth fighter in the world.