Commercial airlines first heard about the live-fire drill when a Virgin Australia pilot picked up a Chinese navy broadcast on the 121.5 MHz emergency radio channel. Ahead of a national election ...

The pilot reported the broadcast to an air traffic controller. Pilots first heard about a Chinese live-fire naval exercise near Australia last week when already in the air, receiving messages that ...

A Chinese navy flotilla conducted a live-fire exercise off the Australian coast on Friday. A Virgin Australia pilot informed air traffic control after hearing a radio broadcast. The warning ...

The J-20 is equipped with an active electronically scanned array (AESA) radar and electro-optical systems, which provide the pilot with ... were replaced with Chinese WS-10C units, and ultimately ...