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2010-08-16 China-Japan-Koreas

Chinese indigineous AWACS means PLAAF no longer a joke

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Posted by gromky 2010-08-16 05:07|| || Front Page|| [11 views ] Top

#1 There's a reason for "almost no response from Washington":

http://defensetech.org/2010/08/11/chinas-new-eyes-in-the-skies/

Something to be taken seriously? Yes. Something that will send the USAF fleeing from the skies in defeat? Not yet.

Mike

Posted by Mike Kozlowski 2010-08-16 13:17|| 2010-08-16 13:17|| Front Page Top

#2 There was an article here just the other day about how some Indian engineer spilled the beans on a secret that would probably make the B-2 and F-22 not nearly so stealthy.

He probably got paid $1000 to do it, I'd bet.

Posted by gorb 2010-08-16 13:49|| 2010-08-16 13:49|| Front Page Top

#3 Actually, he was an Indian-born retirement age ex-contractor (and US citizen) who has spent most of his life stateside. IMHO, they should have given him a pension once his work on those sensitive projects was done, if only to give him a positive incentive to keep his lips sealed. Penny-wise, pound-foolish...

Posted by Zhang Fei 2010-08-16 14:32|| http://timurileng.blogspot.com 2010-08-16 14:32|| Front Page Top

#4 This is a propaganda piece : the Chinese have not shot 2 full generations ahead of the US in AWACS. They still have been trying to get the Russians to sell them the Russian AWACS and the Russians refused. Remember, this is a country that is still having problems building decent jet fighter engines; the Chinese have a good rocketry program that still has not developed into a full-blown ICBM program, they have less than 20 ICBMs that can hit the West Coast of the US. Besides which, they only have a few hundred aircraft of recent vintage that qualify as more than manned aerial targets in a shooting war against Western fighters like F/A-18s, F-16s, F-15s, F-2s, Rafaels, or Tornados.

Posted by Shieldwolf 2010-08-16 19:07|| 2010-08-16 19:07|| Front Page Top

#5 The bastard Clinton may have blocked this radar, but he allowed the sale of satellite and rocket technologies. When are administrations going to take China seriously? Just because we aren't actively fighting them like certain cultures, doesn't me you can stick your head in the sand.

Posted by miscellaneous 2010-08-16 20:32|| 2010-08-16 20:32|| Front Page Top

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