On February 9, 2018, China commissioned its first stealth fighter aircraft in People’s Liberation Army Air Force (PLAAF), reports Chinese state-run news agency Xinhua. This makes China the second nation after the United States to have a homemade stealth fighter. This is a big development as China can now field its stealth fighter in the Indo-Pacific region against the US and Japanese stealth F-35. Quoting a spokesperson of the PLAAF, the agency reported that the J-20 will comprehensively improve Chinese Air Force’s combat capabilities. Exercise Red Sword 2017 conducted recently by the PLAAF in Tibet, saw the first operational deployment of this aircraft. Reportedly, the air superiority aircraft is expected to join the 9th Brigade of the PLAAF which is deployed facing South China. The J-20 is expected to fly together with Russian made PLAAF’s Su-35 fighters, which were ordered by China in 2015. China paid $2 billion for 24 Su-35 and the aircraft were delivered by Russia by 2017. The J-20 is a fourth–generation fighter jet.