Codename Blackbird: Building an Aerospace Fighter From the Start

While the nations of the world are still fighting for control of the skies, China’s “Xuanniao” project quietly gets underway. It leaps over the divide between sixth-generation fighters and goes straight to air-and-space supremacy. Gu Bei, an ace pilot testing the prototype, awakens a black-tech System. Every time he breaks the sound barrier, he unlocks a new piece of future technology. Ion shields, electromagnetic railguns, and quantum stealth technology soon follow. When the enemy’s most advanced fifth-generation fighters provoke China over the East China Sea, a black aircraft with a forty-meter wingspan tears through the clouds and streaks past every radar screen at Mach 18. The command center falls silent, for they are about to witness an aerial revolution that transcends dimensions.