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no, but Aug 1st is a special date.
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Are those just wind farms or not?
Once upon a time China allegedly used screwdrivers on a nuclear silo project.
This project apparently also used screwdrivers.
Therefore these are nuclear silos disguised as wind turbines, aimed at China which the USA claims is not China.
q.e.d.
Now the Russians have a chance to assess capability of China made AESA radars on J-16 and J-10B as PLAAF sends them to Russia for joint military drills.
It seems the military cooperation between China and Russia has achieved a new height as they open sensitive equipment to each other.
It seems the military cooperation between China and Russia has achieved a new height as they open sensitive equipment to each other.
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The Y20 is quite an impressive plane - with better engines, it could become useful for Pakistan. I know that China is working on homegrown engines to re-engine the Y20, but for foreign sales - could they be equipped with western engines? Think that would get Pakistans interest for sure.
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It isn’t a joint exercise. It is just Aviadarts where they shoot unguided rockets at ground targets.
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There must be a point when China tells any foreign buyers if you wanted Chinese planes then you take the Chinese engines also. Or you can buy somewhere else. Is there any reason other than antiquated belief that Chinese soldiers' lives are more expendable than Paks or anybody?
But I dont think if just shooting rockets and dropping precision guided bomb, u need to send J-16.
JH-7A and J-11B / BS can do the job. Definitely some electronic warfare are involved during the exercise which result J-16 and J-10B send instead.
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Unless a country order a large number of these (say 30+), why would China go through the trouble of creating a separate variant? Cost and complexity will escalate way too much. Secondly, which western country will sell anything to China that can be used by PLA?
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Nothing to do with the value of lives and everything to do with the Total cost of Ownership which includes initial procurement costs, costs to operate and cost to maintain and replacement costs, given shorter service lives etc. Right now, and i suspect for quite some time, chinese engines will have much higher TCO costs than western engines and even Russian engines.
Jet engines are hard to make - ask the russians - they have been doing it longer than china but they are having issues with their engines(eg AL-31's )...
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