24/09/2025
China's Fujian aircraft carrier achieves a milestone with the successful electromagnetic catapult launches of advanced fighters and an early warning aircraft! 🥳
The J-15T fighter, J-35 stealth fighter, and KJ-600 early warning aircraft have recently completed their first catapult-assisted takeoffs and arrested landings aboard the Fujian, marking China's first successful electromagnetic launch and recovery of multiple advanced carrier-based aircraft on a domestically built catapult-equipped carrier. This breakthrough demonstrates the vessel's operational readiness in electromagnetic aircraft launch and recovery systems. ✈️
According to experts, the deployment of more types of aircraft aboard the carrier will lead to a "generational upgrade" in the strike group's open-sea combat power: The KJ-600, upon detecting a target, can directly guide the J-35 to intercept and command the J-15T to attack. At the same time, the J-15D provides cover—a synergy that substantially boosts the group's overall combat effectiveness.
The Fujian, China's first domestically developed carrier equipped with electromagnetic catapults, was launched on June 17, 2022, and has since been a focus of close observation as a major step forward in the country's naval capabilities.
