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A Chinese J-15 Flying Shark fighter pitched up 80 degrees and crashed on the Liaoning aircraft carrier — the pilot died

A Chinese Shenyang J-15 Flying Shark naval fighter pitched up 80 degrees and crashed on the Type 001 Liaoning aircraft ...
The Aviationist

PLAN’s Naval Aviation University Performs J-15 Flight Training on Simulated Carrier Deck

Recently released images show J-15s of one of the brigades attached to the Naval Aviation University practicing launch and recovery operations at an unspecified coastal base where a flight deck with ...
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China’s J-15 Fighter Has a Unlikely Origin: Ukraine

Key Points - China's J-15 "Flying Shark" carrier-based fighter is a prime example of its reverse-engineering prowess, born from an unfinished Su-33 prototype acquired from Ukraine in the early 2000s. ...
The National Interest

China’s J-15 Aircraft Carrier Fighter Plane Had a Strange Birthplace: Ukraine

What You Need to Know: China’s Shenyang J-15 “Flying Shark” is a carrier-based fighter derived from Russia’s Su-33, reverse-engineered after failed acquisition attempts. The J-15 represents China’s ...
The National Interest

The J-15 Flying Shark: China Has Its Very Deadly Aircraft Carrier Jets

China’s six-year-old carrier-aviation branch has been having an eventful couple of months: the People’s Liberation Army Navy’s (PLAN) second operational aircraft carrier, and first domestically built ...