An encounter in which a J-16 reportedly chased off two foreign fighters highlights its role in the PLA’s ‘door-kicking combination’.

While the world’s air forces are racing to build sixth-generation stealth fighters, it was an older model that made the headlines earlier this month. A Chinese J-16, a 4.5-generation multirole fighter, was reported by state media to have intercepted two unidentified foreign warplanes near China’s east coast and to have performed a barrel roll over one of the planes. Reports said it may have got as close as 10 metres (33 feet) to the other plane during the manoeuvre last year, which was only…

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