Chinese authorities have not formally released information on these developments. Details about the Chinese J-18 project are not yet known. The J-18 nomenclature is reportedly the “Snowy Owl” stealthy JSF-type aircraft. Information about J-18 VTOL Stealth Fighter Jet It has three versions including a VTOL version. This is also the case with US F-35 stealth fighter jet. It sounds reasonable as developing a VTOL version saves money than the development of an aircraft from nothing. This gives people the impression that it is a VTOL version of J-31. Judging by the photo given by Jane’s, J-18 looks almost the same as J-31 except for its canard structure.
There had been no evidence on the existence of J-18 whatever until now when Britain’s Jane’s Defense Review published a report on the fighter containing a recent photocopied from a post at a Chinese military forum on the Internet. The Japanese and American reports, though sensational in nature and supplemented by later reports, are but speculation. J-18 Red Eagle VTOL fighter jet, with superb stealth function and installed with laser active phased array radar, internal weapon bays and two vector engines with great thrust. Soon afterward, US Defense News weekly published an article that believed that China was developing short-distance vertical taking-off and landing stealth fighter jet, i.e. It said that China began to develop its own catapult for the aircraft carrier it planned to build but lacked key technology to make such catapult therefore, China scrapped its original plan for a carrier for horizontal taking off of aircraft and began instead to develop VTOL aircraft. Japan’s Asahi Shimbun was the first to publish a report on the successful test flight of J-18 at the beginning of 2013. Japanese and US media have lots of speculation about China’s stealth fighter jet J-18 in addition to the J-20 and J-31 already widely known. What the major general and Xiong Wei said about the amphibious attack vessel have given us the impression that while designing its aircraft carriers, China has an alternative plan to develop a large amphibious warship with the capability of an aircraft carrier if China can succeed in developing its stealth VTOL fighters. There has been no official confirmation of the news, but there have been reports by media outside China about China’s development of that mysterious aircraft. On December 28, 2012, China’s posted the news of the successful maiden flight of China’s stealth VTOL J-18 fighter and a photo of the aircraft. Xiong Wei, the chief editor of the magazine Ordinance Knowledge, said: “Compared with China’s currently commissioned amphibious warships, the most important characteristic of the amphibious attack vessel is a large number of helicopters it can carry.
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