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War torn country? They were war weary but hardly war torn. In WWI, they surrendered well before the Allied nations reached much inside Germany's borders, their heavy industry, which was the best in Europe at the time, remained essentially intact. The German military simply advanced one step...

lol, well they should be more fun to fly around than those weak sauce cessnas! But then again, their airframes are probably pretty shoddy by now, so they might be a bit more dangerous.

My question stands, do you think the U.S. would welcome a Chinese flotilla visiting Cuba? There'll be harsh words from the American side, I can promise you that.

Well, I'd argue that China is just trying to increase its power projection in the area to protect vital shipping lanes. Then again, power is a zero-sum game, so an increase in power by one party results in the decrease in power by another. I suppose that from that point of view, either case...

I don't know about no problem...you think the U.S. would welcome Cuba inviting a Chinese flotilla over for some military exercises?

lol, Zi what? I don't think it's terribly cost effective. It takes so much more money to develop and deploy an ABM system than a BM system. Even the U.S. hasn't developed anything that can effectively counter that and their nascent ABM systems are barely deployed.

I doubt it, China throughout its history was never interested in annexing territories. Ever since recovering most of the land lost by the Qing dynasty, China's territorial claims have only shrunk. What's the use of taking over a poverty ridden country like Cambodia anyway? I think they'd much...

The SCO will never be like NATO because China won't enter any type of alliance with any country. China doesn't want to be dragged unwillingly into wars by some complex alliance system ala WWI.

But then you'd need to maintain pilot training, maintenance, and all other sort of logistics equipment and personnel for them. Not really worth the trouble.

No border disputes(except India and I think one other country, not Vietnam), there are still territorial disputes for many islands in the East and South China seas. EDIT: The other country is Bhutan.

A couple things: 1) They're not gonna be converted to drones. Converting old junk like them into drones would be ineffective and expensive. Better to just build new ones. 2) The fighter J-6's have been retired for a while now, the last ones being retired(the ones in this report) are the JJ-6...

Very true, both Russia and the west want to use India as a counter balance to China, so it's obvious who they view as the greater threat with the greater potential.

Lol, I know Indians have been itching to get revenge for '62, but a war isn't gonna happen between the two nations any time soon. The future Chinese carriers wouldn't be able to operate around India safely either, so the threat is mutual. Why do you think India is spending so much money on the...

archangel, I think that's just a concept drawing, probably not anywhere close to how the final product will look like. BTW, $9-10 mil a piece? Isn't that a tad steep?

Are you trying to compare between the missiles that the two countries can produce themselves(indigenous or license-produced)? If so then I'd say that India is pretty clearly ahead. However, if you're comparing between missiles that the two countries have deployed, then I don't see that much of...

Actually, since the engine will be powering the whole plane rather than just the engine itself, the whole plane's weight instead of just the engine's weight needs to be considered. In that case, the weight increase will only be about 1%, while the thrust increase will be about 10%.

This is a political development, not a military one. The balance of military power between the Mainland and Taiwan has irreversibly tipped in favor of the Mainland, and the gap will only continue to widen. This missile won't change any of that. The political implications will be pretty dense...

That problem's been resolved for quite a while now, I think. Wasn't this news originated from Kanwa, a site of pretty poor credibility?

In a pretty heavily guarded area no less....