Attack-21 stealth drone completes first landing and takeoff on Sichuan ship

According to a China News Service report, Fujian was officially commissioned at a military port in Sanya, Hainan on November 5, 2025, and shortly after entered its first live-fire maritime training exercise. Around the same time, Sichuan — China's first electromagnetic-catapult amphibious assault ship — reached a new milestone. In late October 2025, the GJ-21, the military's first carrier-based reconnaissance-and-strike stealth UAV, completed its first successful takeoff and landing on the Type 076 amphibious assault ship Sichuan, signaling that the People's Navy now operates fixed-wing stealth UAVs from large seagoing combat platforms.

The GJ-21 uses a tailless flying-wing, wing-body-fused layout, with internal weapons bays and fuel space, and was publicly unveiled for the first time during the September 3 parade in 2025. Its platform, Sichuan (hull number 51), is the lead ship of the Type 076 class, independently designed and built by China. It has a full-load displacement of over 40,000 tons and was launched and named on December 27, 2024. The vessel adopts a fully automatic landing-guidance system, a new integrated power system, and electromagnetic launch and arresting technology, and can carry fixed-wing UAVs, helicopters, and amphibious equipment.

The material does not state whether the GJ-21 has been regularly deployed on Sichuan or has entered further testing, so the reported progress stops at this point.