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Yes it is designed and build by Chinese this time. This is a sign of China's industrial strength. Even the French CDG's arresting gear was produced by US. The only other country who can build it is Russia but they declined to export it to China. With no one else to learn from, it has to be...

I can certainly understand that. In most discussions, the more conservative argument wins because it sounds more "reasonable". On the other hand, think of all the cost of building and maintaining the surrounding destroyers etc. in each carrier battle group, it does not make sense to build many...

The original message is flawed since the author assumes USAF fights a sizable modern air force in a war, which would never happen due to nuclear weapons. Instead, USAF and their old fighter jets are supposed to take over the likes of Iraq, Iran, Afghanistan ... For this mission USAF's current...

US trained Brazilians (Sao Paulo) and Chinese learned the system from Brazilians in 2009. But you can certainly expect changes in the coming years. Chinese like to change things by their own.

Certainly a newly refitted CV would take time and money. Delays are to be expected. The only intriguing aspect related to Indian's choices, IMO, is why not build the second CV (INS Vishal) as nuclear powered.

This is not too confusing, hehe. I guess the part that is confusing is that the thousand/lakh/crore/arab are at the scale of 1000, 100, 100, 100 of the preceding unit. While in the western countries, the units are thousand/million/billion at 1000, 1000, 1000 consistently and in east Asian...

Lol, Bill Sweetman: F-35 sucks. I will prove my point by praising every other new jet fighter out there.

In all seriousness, what is preventing India from befriending with China? Forget about history, the trend is China will become a military and economy power. The worst thing is to make enemy out of it. Why not embrace it instead? India can buy J-31 (or whatever it is called). Cheaper and...

My take on the name/designation is that PLAF may not order this new jet, therefore it may not ever get a J-number. Note even JF-17 is not a true PLAF J-jet. What people are guessing at this point is, if PLAF every purchase the new jet it may get assigned J-21. Or, judging from the number printed...

100 KW = 135.96 HP I watched the video. The report is highly unreliable since it mentioned something like "optical fly by wire" or "fly-by optics". I honestly do not believe J-20 is that advanced. Also, think of the air conditioning needed to cool down a 100kw AESA radar?

I just read some Russian articles. Their experts seem to think J-20 is optimized to fly at a speed between M1.3 and M1.6.

Why is that. The missile itself is only 32k lb, weighting roughly equally to one mid-size fighter jet. This can essentially change DF-21D from a defensive weapon to an offensive weapon.

Is DF-21D too heavy to be deployed on a large AC? If that can be done then this AC becomes a AC killer roaming the sea chasing other ACs? How likely is that scenario?