having enough military muscle to protect homeland that thing china has always been doing. nothing new here.
no, there's sth new, very friggin NEW: it happens that China's opponent, aganist whom China has tried to protect her homeland, is the most powerful militarty power in the world,the US, at this moment. This fact makes all the difference. Hence what to make, when to make, make how many, what´s the efficiency, etc. are both tacticle and strategic at the highest level.
This, however, is fundamentally different from the scenario if China were to go against a minor pushup like India though, as the current fifty H-6K each with 6 CJ-10 cruise missles, totaling 300 just for 1 wave(with only the US can match this firepower at the moment) can blanket-bomb India into the into age of Arjuns, twice, so no need for a new bomber.
Accompanied by J-20s, this new bomber fleet will render every US mil facilities inside the circle made of Diego Garcia, SE Asia/Northern Australia, Guan and Western Alaska obsolete, let alone the ones in Japan and S Korea, eventually forcing the US retreating back to Hawaii leaving China taking the control of the Western pacific.
This, is sth, of major strategic significance, far more than things like J-31s or Y-20!
but to invent something that don't exist is something only west has done so far..
Total Bull§hit, to be brutally honest.
When Europeans were still using swords and armored knights the chinese were fighting with guns, rocket launchers, multistage rockets, land mines, naval mines, grenades, poison gas, flamethrowers, repeating crossbows armed with explosive bolts rendered by its translator into English as Fire Drake Manual; in modern English, Fire Dragon Manual) is a 14th century military treatise that was compiled and edited by Jiao Yu and Liu Ji of the early Ming Dynasty (1368–1644 AD) in China. It outlined the use of various ‘fire–weapons’ involving the use of gunpowder.
The Huolongjing (
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Huolongjing) provided information for various gunpowder compositions, including ‘magic gunpowder’, ‘poison gunpowder’, or ‘blinding and burning gunpowder’. It had descriptions of the Chinese hollow cast iron grenade bomb, shrapnel bombs, and bombs with poisonous concoctions. The book had descriptions of the 10th century Chinese fire arrow, a simple wooden arrow with a spherical soft casing attached to the arrow and filled with gunpowder, ignited by a fuse so that it was propelled forward (and provided a light explosion upon impact). However, the book explained how this simple ‘fire arrow’ evolved into the metal-tube launched rocket. The book provided descriptions of various rocket launchers that launched tons of rockets at a time, the advent of the two stage rocket having a booster rocket igniting a swarm of smaller ones that were shot from the mouth of a missile shaped like a dragon, and even fin–mounted winged rockets. The book described the use of explosive land mines and descriptions of explosive naval mines at sea and on the river; this incorporated the use of a complex trigger mechanism of falling weights, pins, and a steel wheel lock to ignite the train of fuses. The book described various proto–guns including the fire lance (a short-burst flame-thrower that emitted a charge of shrapnel), multiple metal barrel handguns (with up to ten barrels), and descriptions of handguns with possible serpentine locks, used as components in matchlock firearms. The book provided descriptions of the early bombard and cannon, including the use of hollow gunpowder–packed exploding cannonballs, cannon barrels filled with metal balls containing poisonous gunpowder solutions, and cannons that were mounted on wheeled carriages so that they could be rotated in all directions.
current strategy is making cheap copies of whatever the west makes ans selling to. ountries whon no body sells weapons such as Pakistan.even that isn't without lack of innovation.
the only jet fighter China exported jf17
the project has gone cold due to Chinese failure to make an engine.
Who made J6? j-7? J-8? Q5? K-8?... transpoters, trainers, AWACS, etc. exported to allover Asia, South America, Middle East and Africa for the last 4 decades? India?
a nation who flies her planes with foreign engines can make B 2 or a flying saucer .
it will still fly with a foreign engine so what's the point
To make sth like B2, one needs overall tech and production facilities to make at least 150 tons class heavy transporters, experiences of stealth design and the cutting edge material science - only 3 countries can do it - the US, Russia and China. Or 4, if the EU counted as 1.
...oh gee, I must have forgotten supapawa India
Think who will sell long distance strategic stealth bombers to india then when it issues its standard global tender in the future? Martians!
