China’s J-15 Aircraft Carrier Navy Fighter Summed Up in 1 Word

China’s J-15 Aircraft Carrier Navy Fighter Summed Up in 1 Word

The J-15 Fighter in One Word: Heavy – The Shenyang J-15 “Flying Shark” is among the heaviest fighters ever flown from the deck of a ship, and every argument anyone has had about this aircraft for twelve years traces back to that one fact. The J-15: Explained  The weight is inherited. The J-15 was reverse-engineered from an unfinished Su-33 prototype that China acquired from Ukraine in the early 2000s, and the Su-33 is the naval branch of the Suk…