There is no doubt of the fifth, sixth but question is whether if they going to start on Type 004 which is nuclear power or contiune with conventional Type 003.
In your logic, Russia will rule the universe with their 'Yakhont'...
while america is nothing with aircraft carriers... But reality is different from what you boy's dream world... as you are just too pathetic, just check what you have got in your inventory, all junk...
This bumpkin named @Viet does not know the jungle only has 40 'Yakhont' while even Syria got 70...Are you really 40 plus as you claimed? you act like a freaking child, you are in a defense forum without knowing the basic rules of modern warfare, so you believed Yankees doesn't attack Russian because they possess Yakhont?
When enemy Armada reaches within the range of coastal anti ships missiles, which means the enemy already has dominated in sea and sky, game over.
One more thing, what do you think is the difference of an AK47 in the hand of Viet and Rus?
For F-35B, it is not a problem, we can put our J20s on the carrier in no time if needed. There is no technical difficult since we already mastered the tech to put heavy fighter plane on aircraft carriers. The navy is still considering FC-31 is due to balance of interest within CAIC. As for subs, no one knows how many type 095s we have built now, all speculations... But from past experience, this can only be a huge underestimation of the numbers for any weapons we built... And we have 70+ subs which is the world's second largest. 50+ of which are advanced subs, including 20+ AIP subs besides nuclear subs... However, surface ship are still the decisive and dominate force in naval warfare...
Joke again... Tell me what is the tech difficulty other than balance of interests, to put J-20s on the carrier, while we have already put heavy fighter plane J-15s on them???
It is the culture of China to not blindly followed the others pace when it comes to not only the millitary build up but every sectors, we put our boot on the ground, the opposit example is our neighbor India, program like Tejas and arjuns are the best example where they always wanted the bis, always come up with closing gap upgrade but at the end nothing.
It is NOT difficult at all if necessary, but they chose F-17 (later F-18), here again, typical balance of interest between GENERAL DYNAMICS and Northrop ...
I'm dealing with someone who thinks the tripe published by The Drive is excellent. That rag should be renamed The Drivel.
Even your insults are stupid and derivative, but what else can one expect from you? Since you're so obsessed with licking taint, let me put the complex geopolitics in terms you might understand (and I'm already being generous by assuming you have some capability to understand anything). This is a lesson for you as well, @UKBengali, so pay attention.
Vietnam’s defense budget is $5.5b and increases rapidly. modern war is mostly IQ war, so no need to waste too much on money on weapons. The lower the IQ the more money is needed. That explains why you need more money than us.
