A strategic bomber with 4,000 km range does not in any way shape or form equate to the Chinese Air Force being more capable than either the British or French air forces. I will establish my reasoning using logic. 4,000 km isn't very far, Chinese interests are global in nature not just regional, it is very likely that China will one-day find it necessary to deploy air power many 1,000s of km away from the Chinese mainland. The H-6 would need refueling to operate out side of its "combat radius" of 1,800 km (according to janes) - note combat radius is different to range - so the H-6 would need to be accompanied by several aerial refueling (tanker) aircraft to sustain operations ant any meaningful distance. The H-6 and the accompanying tankers are themselves defenseless, so an adequate number of air-defence fighters would be needed for protection putting further strain on the tanker aircraft to keep the fleet refueled. A question that the Chinese Air Force would also have to decide upon is do they want AEW&C? Without AEW&C the fleet may be at a serious disadvantage against any serious enemy air force.
while chinese interests are indeed now going global, its need for military might with a real global reach is not yet great, its primary concerns remain in its "near seas" and its current and planned future capabilities are good enough or in excess of its near seas needs with the only power matching china being japan(US aside of course) but that is changing rapidly as china continues to modernize, even the USN/USAF is finding that it will painful to interveen in any near seas senario and only more so as time passes. thus with that in mind the chinese airforce is adequate for its currently needs(yes this includes the H-6 and its range). if you think china cannot somehow build a b-52 type bomber you must be joking, the fact that it has not choosen to is a different story. and sure PLAAF,PLAN cannot send a meaningful force to europe but no single european country can expect to send forces to in china's near seas in war and survive either. and certainly not operate in said near seas at will. so if you wanna talk global reach of course france, britain have greater reach, but that greater reach does not directly translate into automatically being better than the PLAAF when we consider all things.
The fact is China has a rather large air force with rather few tanker and supporting aircraft in comparison, this is not good. As a result it can not support large operations abroad at all and at best China could merely deploy a "token force". Presently the H-6 bombers can only be used in regional conflicts as China has a severe lacking of essential supporting aircraft. Another factor to consider is that whether you like it or not but Chinas air force is technologically inferior to that of the USAF, RuAF, RAF or French AF. The best fighters in Chinese service are the watered down export versions of the Russian Su-30 and Su-27s of which you only have ~70 - 80 each. The domestically built J-11 isn't worth it weight in p i s s and s h i t and I ROFL at the rest of the combat fleet.
First, as my first argument states, china is not in any immediate need of global reach for its AF, its main concerns are by and large, regional and its AF is perfectly capable of taking on those pressing challenges. and while its true that china's AF is general lower tech than those of the other top AF's its best aircraft is most definitely not watered down su-30 and su-27's, perhaps u have not followed the news(less likely), or willfully ignore them(more likely) for a while but china has been producing the j-11b, j-16 and so on, which while being based on the su-27/30 it is decicisely better than those aircrafts in addition to the j-10, and i do not account for soon to be operational projects like j-10b, j-20, j-31 etc. and u can rofl all you want but chinese mock combat reports indicate that j-10 routinly crushes the j-11(ie su-27) and the PLAAF would be able to win an airwar over taiwan long enough to land significant forces on the island whether or not the US interveens. so while u may laugh, actual commanders of the likes of the JSDF, USAF,USN account for and take those planes, and the capabilities of PLAAF overall, seriously.
The RAF and French who you are so quick to disregard however are in possession of a comparatively large and capable fleet of tankers, AEW&C, intelligence gathering and other supporting aircraft. They also have sizable fleets of highly capable and technologically sophisticated combat aircraft and weapon systems, and despite your poor attempt at insulting the French operations in Mali, they are fully capable of operating around the globe. For goodness sakes the British and French signed a defence treaty 2 years ago where they agreed to pool such resources such as aerial refueling aircraft - just because the RAF has lent support to the French operations does not mean the French are incapable, but rather that the two nations are acting upon their new defence treaty.
fully capable of, is a loaded statement. capable of what and against whom? the french and british can send planes long distances only because they have bases and aircraft carrier/s. but again those arnt everything, the small numbers they field mean that indivisually, they pose no threat to countries like china, russia, india(lol if u think britain can impose a no fly zone over china) etc. and china is also fielding its first carrier and oh about large AEW&C aircraft , lol even china has 12+ of those(kj-2000 and kj-200), more than britain(news to you, i know), relativly few for a nation the size of china but more is still more. in fact, did you know that PLAAF has more tankers than the RAF? lower tech, yes but the numbers are still there and will only grow quantivly and qualitivly. so the question is really, relativly few asssets but higher tech and overseas bases vs relativly large but lower tech and more limited in global opertions. and frankly the whole global operations thing isnt about capabilities, its about national priorities, china has things to settle in its neighborhood, europe has settled its immediate neighborhood. im 100% sure china can, if it chooses build some more support aircraft, or tankers or aew and press and gain at least some bases it has all the reasources to do so(only exception is large transport which is now being recified by the Y-20), even if those assets will be of a lower tech level than american or european standards.
Like the Americans, the French and British operate military air bases around the world. The Chinese by comparison are absent such a complex network of supply chains and military bases around the world. Thanks to British military bases dotted around the world they have been able to pull of operations such as the Falklands, 1st and 2nd Gulf war, Afghan war etc... all of those campaigns saw a significant deployment of British air power. In fact every single war the UK or France have been engaged in over the last several decades the Chinese would have been incapable of fighting lol
yes, but again only advantage is those bases, which due to the non-intervention policy, china has not pursued, this means relativly little in a direct 1 to 1 comparason of airforces, we are not comparing who can pummle 3rd world nations the fastest. you have to consider other things like for instance size.
And wrong, flightglobal is accurate in saying the Chinese can not match the Japanese if it ever came to a conflict in the skies over the disputed islands in the East China Sea... numbers are irrelevant. The Japs F-15s would dominate with ease.
fan boy much? the only japanese planes with any real staying power(due to distance, go check a map ur self if u dont believe) without tanker support in a air fight over the diaoyutai islands are those f-15J's but they would be fighting many hundreds of chinese fighters and hundreds of those being 4th gen which are in fact a match for the f-15s(over two third of the f-15j fleet is of the older varient built in the 80s and 90s) and because the islands much closer to chinese airbases, the chinese planes will have much better sortie rates and loiter times. the tankers are easy targets(not manurvarable and not stealthy), especially in a war that close with any near peer. so no they would not dominate, and certainly not with ease, in fact its far more likely that china will have upper hand in an airwar over the diaoyutai islands due to the close proximity to chinese bases compared to the distance to japanese bases meaning the only really plane to worry about is the 70 or so F-15J Kai or modernized F-15J these will faced the modernized J-11B/J-10A combo.
You sir are the funny one, go back to making fortune cookies or making cheap knock-off toys or whatever you Chinese like to do.
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