Daily Archives: Mar 17, 2026

Charles Mitchell

9 Strategic Insights on China’s J-35 Stealth Carrier Fighter

In November 2025, China's newest carrier-borne stealth fighter-the J-35-moved from prototype status into low-rate production and marked a key turning point in Beijing's naval aviation capabilities. Based on the FC-31 demonstrator, this twin-engine jet is configured for catapult-assisted launches on the Type 003 Fujian supercarrier and positioned to challenge...
William Harrison

Tesla’s $1 Trillion Musk Pay Deal: Engineering Ambition Meets Governance Risk

It's not every day that a CEO compensation plan makes engineering history before it makes financial history. Yet Tesla's newly approved $1 trillion pay package for Elon Musk does exactly that, tying the richest man in the world's future earnings to a decade-long roadmap of engineering milestones that could...
Charles Mitchell

10 Reasons China’s H‑20 Bomber Lags

The reveal of China's H‑20 stealth bomber has begun to feel like a perpetually missed deadline. Years of state media innuendos planted expectations for an innovative, game-changing aircraft that might be able to strike U.S. bases across the Indo‑Pacific, but every signalled announcement dissolves into silence. The People's Liberation...