By "similar to Super Hornet" and "counter lightening II" I mean having a fair chance of winning or bringing into a draw in confrontation, not exactly equal or better in terms of capability.
Varyag is almost finished refitting and will be used for training purpose only; The real 1st indigenous AC had its steel-cut ceremony this January at Shanghai Baosteel and is under construction at Jiangnan Shipyard at Changxing island, it won't be available until at least 2011; The 1st...
According to your stats, 4.3% of China's $3.42 trillion GDP would give her a defense budget of $147 billion, how could India match up with that? :coffee:
BTW, China has already deployed land-based high-intensity laser weapon for missile defense in Tibet, your nukes can't even hit Lhasa...
Why does China need to justify her military budget? Does US ever offer justification for her policies? Bush just says:"It's in our interest to do blah blah blah..." So China learns.
I think illegal border crossing by Tibetan traitors endangers national security and shoot-on-site is the best policy to prevent it. Good work PLA & PAP!
Well, we are just undertaking mass population reduction as the "permanent solution", no go crying before USA and EU. Maybe one day we will do the same thing in New Delhi or just nuke the **** out of it, but there's nothing you can do about it, get it?
I don't think US could cause the earthquake, but it definitely used strategic wepaons (HAARP or else) to magnify the damage to hinder China from protecting Burma from Western invasion in the name of humanitarian relief.
I really doubt J-11B will be available for export in the short future, because even PLAAF is complaining about Shenyang's incapability to manufacture enough J-11B within the time frame (before J-xx coming out) to accommodate the urgent domestic demand for heavy-weight long-range multi-role...