China unveils stealth fighter

China's first radar-evading stealth fighter staged a runway test at an airbase in central China on Wednesday and could make its first flight as early as Thursday afternoon, the Hong Kong editor of a Canadian military journal said.

China's first radar-evading stealth fighter staged a runway test at an airbase in central China on Wednesday and could make its first flight as early as Thursday afternoon, the Hong Kong editor of a Canadian military journal said.

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But the nation's state-run media, which called news of the tests "rumours" in Wednesday's newspapers, sought to play down reports about the aircraft's capabilities.