We should not use GDP(PPP) to measure a country except developed industry ones. China is still a developing country. We have to spend US dollar to buy a lot of significant industry products from developed industry country.
Just for training. Pilots cannot improve their skill by pratising throw LGB. Rocket is a cheapter option in daily training. Moreover, they always use Stimulated Bomb and Stimulated Program instead of real LGBs in training. Such videos and images are worse for publicity rather than shooting...
Indeed, the author said the weight of 15 ton from the Academy Cao's speech. This the the speech: http://www.thepaper.cn/newsDetail_forward_1795628
This speech shows that J-20 contains 29% composite material. However, there is no any information about the weight of J-20.
The news about the chinese carrier-capable tactical airborn early warning (AEW) aircraft?
http://rencai.people.com.cn/n1/2017/0928/c244805-29564500.html...
I do not think 128 VLS cell is necess
No evidence support the 155mm gun and 128 units of VLS in furture development. Why do we always talk about that? It can not be more imprtant than new missile variants and radar system.
YJ-12 can not be vertical launched. It should be YJ-18. Moreover, some sources claim a special version of YJ-18 is the shipborne land attack missiles.
YJ-12
YJ-18