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I think what the premier means is that because S.Korea is a more modern developed country with a large economy compared to the backwards, undeveloped, poor north - in a conflict, this would mean the south has more to lose.

JH-7A is more of a ground attack strike plane whereas JF-17 is multirole

Not to mention that it can have dual-use military and defence applications.

BBC News - In graphics: Supercomputing superpowers The linked page shows an interesting graphic - it breaks down the top500 list into countries and computing power. America has the largest computing power of the top500 China has the second largest computing power and comes ahead of...

Excellent news. According to the BBC, this new machine is now the second fastest in the world, second only to the Cray - Jaguar itself. Moreover, the actual theoretical top speed is actually faster than the Cray - Jaguar. BBC News - China aims to be become supercomputer superpower

Depends on a lot of factors such as previous experience, the level of tech, money etc. I would hazard a guess of around 10 years or more (for modern fighters) from initial specification to prototype flight. But some fighters have taken less time than this, for example in the case of F-16...

Check your facts. China can and has developed engines and are currently undergoing testing and certification. Why would they when they can get JSF from america? Several European countries have financed development of JSF. Again, check your facts. Other than perhaps engines (until the...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EF2000#Radar_signature_reduction_features

Sorry, my bad. :lol: AESA has been in testing on Typhoon test aircraft since 2007 and should be part of Tranche 3 in 2012. Even without Meteor, I still think the Typhoon would have an edge due to its low RCS (reputedly <1m2) making it more difficult for MKI to detect, in contrast to the...

NO, the Typhoon pilots only said that the MKI had superior manoeuvering. This is important because the Indra Dhanush exercise was to simulate close air combat with guns only - this is where manoeuverability is important. MKI fanboys like yourself then take this to mean that the MKI on the...

The Bars radar was offered to China but the chinese declined. I think the official reason was that it was too heavy and installing it would mean that the MKK/MKK2's would have to have Canards fitted. I was under the impression that the J-11B (and J-10B) was a testbed for technologies to be...

I have a few criticisms of this comparison 1) You say that an engine with 100kN thrust will be used for future LCA planes (with possibly supercruise and Thrust vectoring) but make no mention of planned engine upgrades to JF-17 such as a 100kN WS-13. Remember RD-93 will only power the first...

Just because Loongson decide to use a French-Italian company to fabricate the chips, does not mean China doesn't have the capability to fabricate chips themselves: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foundry_model#Foundry_sales_leaders_by_year As you can see, 4 of the worlds top 17 foundries are...

Sending a man into space and returning them safely is a much more technologically demanding and difficult feat than sending a probe to venus. Who says Chinese can't design and fabricate chips. Loongson chips are China's domestic cpu's and have been used to make a completely domestic...

Old news. If US insists on continuing to play this game then China should sell arms to Iran and veto any proposed US sanctions against them - two can play that game.

Whether the holy elixir story is true or not is not important. What is important is the influence/dominance of early chinese culture/civilisation over japanese culture/civilisation (or lack of it). You can see the chinese influence in their alphabet, architecture, philosophy, clothing...

But if you count only the whites and exclude all the blacks and hispanics in the US military then that's a huge proportion of the US military gone. :hitwall: Oh and the stealth monopoly that US enjoys over the rest of the world - it's has Russian origins. Petr Ufimtsev, a Russian physicist...

Okay, on paper R-77 max range might be 100km under perfect conditions but in reality it's probably closer to 80km and to be effective will have to be fired at a closer range - probably 40-50km. Firing from max range won't be effective at all due to the grid fins. SD-10 max range is about...

Although they like to portray themselves as an enlightened society, a lot of europeans are just down right racist and xenophobic. So what if you're offended by what somebody decides to wear? - in a free country people should be able to express themselves as they see fit. There are plenty...

Instead of pestering China to lower its number of nukes, Japs should pester the other P5 nations to lower their nukes numbers to the level of China's. Good luck trying