Plaaf Grey Wall Art

Plaaf Grey — 4 museum-grade prints in this palette. The Chengdu J-10 Vigorous Dragon — Menglong in Chinese, NATO reporting name Firebird — entered PLAAF service in the mid-2000s as China's first indigenously developed fourth-generation multirole fighter, breaking decades of reliance on licensed Soviet designs such as the J-7. Designed around a delta-canard configuration with a single Saturn AL-31FN engine, the J-10A combined agility with PL-8 and PL-12 air-to-air missile integration and marked a pivot toward domestic avionics and production at Chengdu Aircraft Corporation. The Shenyang J-16 is China's indigenous twin-seat multirole strike fighter, evolved from the J-11BS and Su-30MKK Flanker family with domestic avionics including an active electronically scanned array radar and expanded weapons integration for PL-15 beyond-visual-range missiles and YJ-91 anti-ship munitions. Entering PLAAF service around 2015, it became a backbone platform for maritime strike and long-range air interdiction alongside the J-20. The Chengdu J-10 Vigorous Dragon — NATO reporting name Firebird — traces to the 1986 No. 10 Project and first flew on 23 March 1998, entering PLAAF service from 2004 as China's first indigenous fourth-generation multirole fighter.

Updated 14 Jun 2026