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Chinese shipbuilding is not efficient. China is at 30% of Japan and South Korea's efficiency level. http://fairplay.ihs.com/ship-construction/article/4268976/china-wants-its-yards-to-lead-the-world-in-10-years Because China has 5x the military budget of Japan or 7x Korea's, the country can...

Large ships are significantly more cost efficient, given the reduction in crew redundancy, however they are much harder to defend. The Japanese made this fatal mistake during WWII. Large, poorly defended Japanese ships became target practice for US torpedoes. The US can build large ships...

I think it was mentioned somewhere that carbon plastic hulls were too complicated to design. Aluminium was easier. You have to understand that the C919 is an assembly project. It will use foreign engines and avionics, which is the only way this plane will get certified. This will also make the...

Hey guys, The old PDF had an option to re-arrange posts in a thread by most recent to the oldest. (So the first post I see after clicking on a thread is the last, not the first post) It that still an option? If so, how would I go about achieving that? Thanks!

However, human development has been and always will be relative. When the West is growing below 2% while the world is growing at over 3%, the West is falling behind economically. I will be the first one to admit that. I agree nonetheless, that India's constant use of China as their benchmark is...

I agree. China would not be the preferred ally for any country. However, India is the world's largest and fastest growing arms market. The US/EU/Russia would never ally Pakistan if it meant losing access to India. The US has no interest in selling Pakistan advanced weapons that it needs to fend...

The comparison was between Russia/US and China, not India and China. India cannot produce supersonic ramjet engines, let alone hypersonic ones. The BrahMos and BrahMos II has been and will be using Russian ramjets. In terms of cruise missile engine technology, China is a distant 3rd after...

Not much really. The Russians are testing their Yu-74, and the US is still struggling with its X-51. China is the third country to test hypersonic engines, but only for their DF-ZF missiles. They have yet to test any hypersonic aircrafts. They have been testing their "BrahMos II equivalent"...

Lol, of course not. China's been testing ramjet engines for missiles. Only the US and Russia have working hypersonic jet prototypes.

The S-500 does everything that the S-400 can, but better. S-500 also has ABM and CMD capability. The reverse is not true. The only reason the S-400 won't be phased out is because it's cheaper per pop. From a reverse-engineering perspective, there's no reason to buy a S-300 upgrade, with no new...

Well, in the case of nuclear wars, it won't even be close. It's 260 warheads for China and 7000+ for the US. The US also has invasive radar detection and ABM systems all around the first and second island chains. It'd be a miracle if even one Chinese nuke landed on continental US. What the US...

Bro, while I agree with you that the Chinese are cocky as **** you just opened my eyes. Every single aircraft you used in your comparison are either European, French, Russian or American. None of them are Indian. The J-20 is already in service, and has the same number of prototypes as the Pak...

Hope you guys good luck. This would be quite the achievement. Bombardier's aviation division will probably die in 10 years if you guys manage to get this thing certified in NA and EU.

I'm curious. Why is China buying S-400 now? It's a decade old, and will be obsolete export-wise as soon as the S-500 arrives. Is it because the HQ-9 has not been a successful copy? It has no foreign operators thus far, not even Pakistan, and this is the type of weapon they need the most.

Agreeable. Just look at how things turned out between Trump and Putin.

He actually speaks some truth. The Japanese expected an entire year before the USN could recover from Pearl Harbor. The US instead fully recuperated after 3 months. Like China today, the US was a manufacturing powerhouse and ran trade surpluses with the rest of the world before WWII. America...

It's a simple case of bullying. China will first send in a drone; then manned surveillance vehicles; then warplanes, then landed missions, then whatever... until the Philippines militarily retaliates. This is how every military conflict occurs. One side tests the other, until the other side...

Lol, Chinese companies signing contract with Chinese universities. Nothing new will come; move along...

They are being picked on, because this incident occurred 2 months after their grand unveiling. It was broadcasted nationwide, with invitation to multinational journalists and TV stations. They wanted the world to see, and what the world saw was made-in-China.

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