the distance between great powers and medium powers gets bigger by the day.
in 1950, it was possible for a WW1 (50 years behind) level military (China) to beat a contemporary military (US and UN allies) within the same magnitude of losses.
in 1970, it was possible for a WW2 (30 years behind)...
None of the components are South Korean except the paint. Goalkeeper CIWS from Netherlands, US radar, US missiles, Japanese hull design (which itself was ripped off an American hull design).
Israel is militarily independent? UK is militarily independent?
Can you remind me which planes the RAF and IDF-AF use, and whether they are completely made in the UK or in Israel?
Unlikely, you couldn't even catch Saddam's stone age Scuds in a flat desert, good luck trying to catch modern ICBM TELs that can go underground in the most heavily forested and mountained terrain on earth and alternatively, in the biggest continuous urban areas in the world.
Yep building a photocopier is a remarkable feat of engineering, much better than not knowing a photocopier exists and claiming to have higher morals for that :lol:
that's right. Copying effectively needs a photocopier. China built the photocopier from scratch, while no one will ever sell a photocopier to India. Indeed, India doesn't know a photocopier exists.
:lol: Indian electronics and software skills.
Your missile CEPs approach infinity because they fall back down. No one knows where Indian missiles will go after launch. What achievements has India ever made in aerospace? Zero.
Those are mutually contradictory goals. You cannot have fair relations with the US if you increase the military and you cannot increase the military without pissing off the US.
The biggest scandal in history Lai Changxin scandal went under his watch.
He is a free market supporter, capitalist...
lmao Xi Jinping ironman conservative
he sent his daughter to Harvard, has a trophy singer wife and got to his current position with a begging bowl. he was so unpopular that when he tried to go to the Central Commitee in 1997 he got voted down.
if he's ironman, lmao, everyone else is titanium...
If it were a Chinese sub that did the same, it'd be called "low quality copy".
So I think Akula is a low quality rushed face project for Russian generals to make money off Indians with.
We wanted Phalcon in the 1990's. That should tell you something (it was appropriate for China's 1990's air force). :lol:
Now we have our own AWAC. Why would we want a foreign AWAC that we have to retool to fit our air force when we have our own AWAC that does whatever we want it to?
In fact...
lmao we have KJ-2000.
One of your Phalcons go down, how long will it be to replace?
One of our KJ-2000s go down, how long will it be to replace?
That's assuming you can even down our KJ-2000's before we down your Phalcons, and with the pace of development of PAK-FA, vs. pace of...
Xi enjoys the fine things in life like caviar and Harvard education for his daughter :lol: why would he risk war and lose it all, better to keep bowing down instead of lose his yacht, trophy wife and mansions.
Can't wait till 2017/2022 when this joke steps down for people like Zhou Qiang and Hu...