Most of the training of the Air Force is done in the country. How many times do you get a chance to get training done with other air forces? Once or twice per year? That is barely enough to be considered as "drills"; like I said before, and as demonstrated before, the exchanges between the Air Forces are a sign of friendship and a way to compare tactics, not to "practice", so to speak. China can also "compare tactics" and update its doctrine simply by studying and examining. They have done some serious dissecting of American doctrine and tactics used in the Gulf War, which saw a complete renewal of PLAAF doctrine and reorganization of PLAAF structure and command.
The J-10 serviceability is yet unknown to most of us, so please stop with the "articles" that are probably written by the same people who thought the J-11B was crashing. The J-10's crash rate is not higher than other aircraft and so far there has been no grounding or investigations into any aspect of it.
The J-10 defeated the J-11, Su-27SK, Su-30MKK, and J-11B in virtually every major combat simulation. Some of the scores include 7:1, 13:1, 4:1, etc. You need to do more research.
And no, China never offered the J-10 to Myanmar.
J-11, Su-27, Su-30MKK? The Su-27 is being retired. Su-30MKK is being moved to second line service. I see that you have left out the J-11B, which has a AESA, RAM, composites, IRST, MAWS, 132 kN engine, which will provide a much stealthier, versatile, and electronically-capable platform than the Su-30MKI. You also have left out the J-10B, which already has significantly upgraded capabilities compared to the J-10A, about to enter service. Let's not forget about the J-15 and J-16, all of which feature similar upgrades seen on the J-11B, which will enter production in 2014. China has more Flanker fighters than Russia and 120 of them are the J-11B while even more locally-developed 4.5 generation Flankers are entering service.
Now, onto transports. I see that you have conveniently left out the fact that China has some 100+ Y-8 along with the Y-9, IL-76, and is awaiting the Y-20 currently in testing. But that's alright, because India's 10 C-17s will obviously be "enough", right? It must be fun to reduce your enemy's numbers on paper, isn't it.
No dedicated refueling aircraft? Please go to YouTube and search up "J-8 refuel" or "J-10 refuel".
The Y-20 is also being converted to refueling aircraft.
And once again, you have left out the PLAAF's KJ-200, Y-8 AWACS, Y-8T, Y-8Q, Y-8J, Y-8EW, etc, which make up the bulk of the PLAAF's EW fleet. Oh, by the way, the KJ-2000 features a L-band AESA radar that tracks simultaneously in all directions, which provides far superior tracking, detection, and scanning capability compared to all Russian, Indian, and American EW aircraft.
Funny how you stress "quality over quantity" while your post clearly implies that what Russia and United States has over China is ... well, you named it: quantity.
Be careful what you call a "paper tiger" because if that's the standard then I'm afraid IAF and Russia's aging force might as well be paper mice.
Gambit has already answered ur assertion to the value of exercises.
I never said anything about j-10s crashing,just that their maintainence problems keep them grounded.It was in the chinese forum itself check out-ur chinese members reported how the j-11 crushed j-10.
If su-30mkk is being moved to second line service then china doesn't really have much left as frontline fighters.
As for the j-11,its new ws-10 engine itself is a failure.The chinese engines lasted 30 hrs before they needed servicing compared with 400 for the russian engines.
And NO it doesn't have AESA radar,there are PLANS to deploy an aesa radar.Well The IAF also PLANS to deploy zhuk aesa radar on the sukhoi upgrades.
It also lacks the Powerful bars radar of the mki.Its radar is far weaker than the later bars of the mki.The j-11b's radar as far as i know can track track 10 targets and engage 2 simultaneously.This is because the j-11's basic radar is an upgrade of the older su-27s radar not that of the su-30.
The sukhoi's bars can track 15 and engage 4.
It does not have THrust vector,so is at an disadvantage in WVR.
The israeli jammer and electronic countermeasures are also superior.Infact the LITENING targeting pod is used by the USAF,the german air force,the RAF,the IsAF and many others.Thus its precision ground attack ability is also superior.
The sukhoi -30 mki also has 12 hardpoints to the j-11s 10 and can carry more firepower.
So the next time u spam bullshit about how j-11 is uberpowered over the mki do ur reserach.
And no i didn't leave out 100 + y-8 transports.The y-8 is the chinese designation to the old and reverse engineered ,slightly modified antonov-12.And u don't have 100+.Only around 60 remain in service.These are totally obsolete machines.And i had mentioned them by the name an-12.The chinese reverse engineered name is y-8.
And yes sadly,the globemaster IS the best strategic transport aircraft in the world.Due to its ability to land in rough areas and its massive payload.Right now IAF's ability to reinforce from the air is better than PLAAF's obsolete transport fleet.
And i never said 'no' tanker aircraft.I said no DEDICATED tanker aircraft.All u have are 10 stopgap old h-6 badger bombers converted to this role.These are 50s era tupolev aircraft.Even ur airforce knows this and is now trying to acquire ill-78 from russia.Btw did u see the numbers of tankers and transports in USAAF and rusaf?Half the USAAF is support aircraft.Thats how imp support aircraft is in modern warfare.The pathetic state of the PLAAF in this regard shows its antiquated mentality ,and because it has no contact with other airforces they don't get to learn either.
Now as to the AWACS thing.China has 5 kj-2000 mounted on il-76 platforms and these i mentioned because they are relevant in a modern combat scenario against the PLAAF.
It also has 7 kj-2000 mounted on the obsolete y-8 platform.And 16 more y-8 for reconssaince.
Now if u think y-8 awacs has any value as more than a defensive AWACS platform u are delusional.Its not even a jet aircraft.Its a turbopropeller driven aircraft ,lol.
In the scenarios likely to include the PLAAF,an attempted invasion of the indian N-E border ,seizure of taiwan or diayou islands where the awacs has to monitor enemy airspace and get close and not just sit back and monitor its own airspace,a role for which clearly these were optimized...if u think a turbopropeller driven aircarft has any hope of survival in a modern airspace close to enemy lines....again pray to confucius for wisdom.
This is why u will not see a single air force with turbopropeller AWACS,USA uses e-3 an E-4 sentry those are based on boeing 747/707.The PHALCON and russia's a-50 are based on the turbojet ill-76 as are 5 of china's only modern AWACS those 5 kj-2000 awacs.Even the new indian indigineous awacs uses the embraer -145 jetliner as platform not some useless 50's era turboprop platform.
Now as for the super duper kj-2000 that houses a radar that supposedly no other air force can match.not even the USA or russia.It begs the question why chinese were begging to israel to supply them PHALCON,and this was developed only after the usa sanctioned the move.So believe all the CCP propaganda u want on ur super duper worldbeater kj-2000.
So now i see u have also conveniently avoided the question of how u expect a military hierachy,with rigid centralized control and interference from political commissars at every level to be equal in efficiency of human material to an independent organization.And lower flying hours on top of that.
So yes you are right i WAS wrong,the PLAAF shouldn't be called paper tiger..thank you for correcting me..its more appropriate title is paper mice.