Chinese advanced technology especially their Air and Naval technology system largely came from French and German companies, just look at their inventory some missile resembles of Exocet,
Really, what about the new missiles specially made for J-20 and J-31? Also imported from French and German companies that have no equivalent?
As to anti ship missiles, all PLAN missiles have been standardized to be able to fire from any canister, so unless we have taken every missile available to them, and no available to them, then I don't know where this comes from.
their helicopter fleet is indeed a licensed version of Dauphin and Panther and Frelon too,
Helicopters, yes that needs work, but at this point only the exterior resembles the first licensed production ones, they have been completely upgraded to modern standard, for example the Z-18, a licensed production of the French Dauphin, has now the capability of reaching 9000m, something the Dauphin cannot do.
their modern AA gun is licensed build of 35 mm Oerlikon Skyguard,
AA guns, you mean the ones used by our reserves? Don't know, probably Russian.
their gas and diesel powered turbine engine for their ships either came from MTU germany or Ukraine, they even licensed some Thompson and advanced Thales build system.
So the engineer lied when he said since Type 52D, all turbines are home made, and also that no imported turbine can power 12,000 ton destroyer?
They still need advanced technologies from Western European nations to modernize their weapon platform. Heck even they still importing machine from Russia and Ukraine for their fighter and Airlift aircraft.
You mean engines? Sure that's a weak spot, but the J-20s are being tested with domestic, though not the final production versions of the engine, just heavily modified 4th gen engines.
As to everything else, what else are we importing?
Japan surely has the upper hand when it came to heavy industries and advancement engineering technologies when compared to China.
In a lot of fields sure, but you need better examples. This is a defense forum with a Chinese presence, it's not a "secret."
They have a stabilizing effect, for the time being. Their presence negates the necessity of Japan completely remilitarizing to be able to engage and cover any threats from any power. Quite frankly, Japan's defense doctrine is quite weak -- compared to what it should and could be. If the United States were to leave, hypothetically, then this would necessitate Japan to raise defense spending level to 3% of our GDP. That's around $150 Billion per annum. This would also necessitate Japan to develop --- her own nuclear capabilities (and, yes we do have the ability to do so currently, just that we don't need to with Sammy close by, lol)
On defense spending, first you do realize China is twice the size of Japan's economy and is increasing by the year, so any discussion on POTENTIAL spending is never going to faze us.
Second, yea, Japan can develop nukes, even North Koreans can, and if history is to be believed, probably could have during WW2.
But if that were the case, and we were really at each other's throats, we would simply try to one up each other, and based on cold war experience the one with more cash usually wins, or always wins, and wouldn't you know it, is us.
I forget what was this thread about? How the hell did we get here.
