'Fierce Dragon' (FC-1), a third generation fighter aircraft jointly developed by Pakistan and China, succesfully undertook its maiden test flight recently, media reports said.
"The recent maiden flight of the plane, named Xiaolong/FC-1, or Fierce Dragon, proved successful in Wenjiang airport in Chengdu, capital of southwest China's Sichuan province," the official Xinhua news agency quoted a state-run newspaper as saying.
"During the show, the plane demonstrated its outstanding mobility, good interception and ground attack capability," a report in the
Economic Daily newspaper said without giving the exact date of the test flight.
Interestingly, the report was silent about China's 'all-weather' friend Pakistan's role in the development