The backbone of the Luftwaffe's air superiority rested with the Messerschmitt Bf 109, a single-engine fighter plane that saw combat from the start of the war in 1936 until the bitter end in 1945.

The White Emperor is being designed to directly compete with the U.S. military’s existing F-22 Raptor and F-35 Joint Strike Fighter. While the Chinese platform should be cutting-edge when ...