
A Chinese CCTV news program about the life of late Lou Yang, who oversaw the Shenyang J-15 Flying Shark carrier-borne fighter project, briefly (6:01) showed a model of the Shenyang J-31 Falcon Eagle stealth fighter armed with anti-ship missiles. They do look like the YJ-82 Eagle Strike (C-802), which is a standard anti-ship missile used by both the People’s Liberation Army Air Force and the PLA Navy Air Force. Though it is a only model, it does appear on the desk of an AVIC/CATIC boss. There have been suggestions, no evidence, that the J-31 could be a candidate as a navalized fighter, perhaps even for future aircraft carriers now in production. Additional photographs have appeared in the past of other models, see below, and are intriguing.


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Chuck Hill
Since the Chinese Navy has been getting new model fighters (all land based to this point) before the Air Force, it doesn’t necessarily mean it will be exclusively a Navy aircraft or exclusively ship based.
Jean Vincent Brisset
Interesting conception of a “stealth” fighter. With such a load, it is no longer any stealth. And, if it takes off from a STOBAR, it does not go very far..
Broncepulido Mas
At least we can see forward undercarriage member prepared for catapult, tailhook and two long underfuselage side-to-side weapon bays …