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China’s J-20 stealth jet designers plan to put powerful radar into aircraft wing

Katherine Langford
Editor-in-Chief · Saturday, October 24, 2026 at 2:00 PM · 1 min read
China’s J-20 stealth jet designers plan to put powerful radar into aircraft wing — South China Morning Post, Singapore Schools news
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Fighter jets typically house their main radars behind a radome in the nose, while conventional airborne early-warning aircraft often carry large radar arrays in prominent structures above the fuselage. Although aircraft wings offer a large surface area, their relatively thin cross-sections leave limited internal space for radar equipment. Top Chinese military aircraft designers have now proposed a revolutionary method to integrate large antenna arrays into aircraft wings, using flight manoeuvres...

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