{"id":161647,"date":"2024-12-26T21:01:35","date_gmt":"2024-12-26T11:01:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/spotted-china-6th-gen-fighter-maiden-flight\/"},"modified":"2024-12-26T21:01:35","modified_gmt":"2024-12-26T11:01:35","slug":"spotted-chinas-6th-generation-fighter-may-just-have-made-its-maiden-flight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=161647","title":{"rendered":"Spotted: China&#8217;s 6th Generation Fighter May Just Have Made Its Maiden Flight"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Videos have emerged online purportedly showing China&#8217;s new             <span class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\" data-id=\"712748\"style=\";  ;\" class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\"><span>sixth generation fighter jet<\/span><\/span> jet flying for the first time with         <span class=\"display-card-hyperlink-article\" data-id=\"2028297\"><a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/chengdu-j-20-what-to-know-about-mighty-dragon\/\" >a fifth-generation J-20 Mighty Dragon fighter<\/a><\/span> acting as a chase plane. This would make             <span class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\" data-id=\"136297\"style=\";  ;\" class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\"><a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/tag\/china\/\"  >China<\/a><\/span> the second or first nation in the world to fly a sixth-generation fighter jet (        <span class=\"display-card-hyperlink-article\" data-id=\"2034069\"><a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/usaf-b-21-raider-bomber-air-superiority-role\/\" >Northrop Grumman claims the B-21 Raider is a sixth-generation combat aircraft even though it is a strategic bomber<\/a><\/span>). Whereas countries like the US, UK, and Russia tend to be reasonably open about their next-generation fighter jet programs, China is incredibly secretive and is often missing from much of the conversation because so little is known. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>China&#8217;s first 6th gen fighter appears to have taken to the skies for the first time seemingly beating Western fighter jets for the first flight.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[12160,396,118,628,412],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-161647","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-6th-generation-fighter-jet","category-aircraft","category-china","category-fighter-jets","category-military"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/161647","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=161647"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/161647\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":161648,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/161647\/revisions\/161648"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=161647"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=161647"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=161647"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}