Indigenous Pride Adjacent Wall Art

Indigenous Pride Adjacent — 3 museum-grade prints that set the mood. 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 KF-21 Boramae — formerly developed under the KF-X programme — is South Korea's second indigenous fighter after the FA-50/T-50 family and positions the nation among the few states capable of designing a twin-engine multirole airframe with semi-stealth avionic architecture. Korea Aerospace Industries and the Agency for Defense Development shaped a canard-less delta with partially embedded weapons carriage, AESA radar, and a defensive-aids suite aimed at air superiority and precision strike between Block I and future Block III internal-bay stealth goals. The FA-50 Fighting Eagle — marketed as Golden Eagle in export and community parlance — evolved from Korea Aerospace Industries' T-50 supersonic trainer programme, which Lockheed Martin helped shape so ROKAF pilots could transition cleanly into KF-16 and F-15K fleets. First flight came in 2011; ROKAF declared initial operational capability in 2013 and ordered sixty aircraft through 2016 to replace F-5E/F and A-37 Dragonfly light attack types.

Updated 14 Jun 2026