Chinese Air Force (PLAAF) News & Discussions

[JSCh]

https://twitter.com/x/status/1413123862884089859

 

[LKJ86]

Via @Oneninety from Weibo

 

[Deino]

Not sure if here is the appropriate thread since he is not really a PLAAF man, but any idea what this „major news“ could be?

https://twitter.com/x/status/1419709216290451457

 

[casual]

Not sure if here is the appropriate thread since he is not really a PLAAF man, but any idea what this „major news“ could be?

https://twitter.com/x/status/1419709216290451457

no, but Aug 1st is a special date.

 

[Deino]

no, but Aug 1st is a special date.

Here it is:

https://twitter.com/x/status/1419814340551716876

 

[ozranger]

Here it is:

https://twitter.com/x/status/1419814340551716876

Are those just wind farms or not?

 

[Globenim]

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.

 

[ozranger]

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.

https://twitter.com/x/status/1426468113793441803

https://twitter.com/x/status/1426465285591101441

https://twitter.com/x/status/1426468578807599106

https://twitter.com/x/status/1426469088285519874

 

[Ali_Baba]

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.

 

[siegecrossbow]

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.

https://twitter.com/x/status/1426468113793441803

https://twitter.com/x/status/1426465285591101441

https://twitter.com/x/status/1426468578807599106

https://twitter.com/x/status/1426469088285519874

It isn’t a joint exercise. It is just Aviadarts where they shoot unguided rockets at ground targets.

 

[MajesticPug]

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.

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?

 

[Beast]

It isn’t a joint exercise. It is just Aviadarts where they shoot unguided rockets at ground targets.

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.

 

[StraightEdge]

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.

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?

 

[siegecrossbow]

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.

They sent J-10B to Aviadarts 2017.

 

[Ali_Baba]

Is there any reason other than antiquated belief that Chinese soldiers' lives are more expendable than Paks or anybody?

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 )...