New AI Fighter Jet X-BAT Aims to Outsmart China’s First-Strike Threat
China’s Runway-Busting Threat U.S. analysts warn that China’s military doctrine emphasizes crippling U.S. airpower on the ground. The People’s Liberation Army has deployed thousands of long-range precision missiles (including anti-ship “carrier killer” DF-21D/DF-26 missiles) to hit U.S. carriers and Pacific airfields foxnews.com. “They’ve basically said, ‘We’re not going to compete stealth-on-stealth in the air — we’ll target your aircraft before they even get off the ground,’” explains Armor Harris, Shield AI’s VP of Aircraft Engineering foxnews.com. Indeed, modern air wars often begin by striking runways or airbases (Israel’s strike on Iran’s airfields, or Russian strikes on Ukrainian runways) to prevent
