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They need to spiral down not up. The weapons are becoming too extreme and the average life expectancy of a frontline combatant is tending to minutes.

Asalamu Alaikum

Killing your enemies ASAP is vital to achieving your objectives in war. Therefore, everyone tries to minimise the life expectancy of their enemies as much as possible. Likewise, the enemy attempts to do the same.

There is no way to slow this down, unless you convince military's to start becoming less efficient at warfare, which is a hard case to sell.
 
The west has alot of underweighted pretenders, soon pass? China has leave most of the NATO countries's airforce in the dust since long times ago.

Actually the only west country China is about to surpass is the US, I find its very amusing when rest pretenders love to group themselves with US, almost like a few of the funny guy you meet who love to brag his best butt buddy's remote uncle is rich or famous whatever.
 
Asalamu Alaikum

Killing your enemies ASAP is vital to achieving your objectives in war. Therefore, everyone tries to minimise the life expectancy of their enemies as much as possible. Likewise, the enemy attempts to do the same.

There is no way to slow this down, unless you convince military's to start becoming less efficient at warfare, which is a hard case to sell.
WalaiKum Salam, there is a difference between madness and efficiency. A mad person knows no extremes, efficient person balances things rationally. When the politicians and the armies become extreme it leads to paranoia of relentless struggle to overkill. The fear within the politicians is the cause of this paranoia, as they tend to be physically weak.

Fear is causing USA to implode as everyone wants to bear arms ; India and Pakistan are facing similar issues. This is leading to organised criminal gangs allover as people realise that individually their power is limited so they form associations with like minded people. Then they want to grow their gangs into territories and into supersized gangs. Resulting in the type massacres we are seeing in the US, where an arm implements a mad action. Religion has failed in all these countries as the religious priests have misused and abused their authority for personal ingratiation. US is becoming polarised more and more daily. Small things escalate quickly into shootings. A large portion of their population is militarily trained and find it easy to use what they know. Guns are easily accessible , bullets are cheap and paper targets change into human targets. Certain political powerful groups are shielded from the mayhems they create of drugs , guns and joblessness on the streets.
 
Thanks for that suggestion and I had a similar idea, but my publisher refused it.

Deino
They want the book selling in a long period of time. Make bang for the Bucks they pay you.

It's valuable at least within three years span.
 
American military is keeping itself alive on debt though.

If we factor in their yearly deficit into the military budget, american military will only have a budget as much as india's
 
The west has alot of underweighted pretenders, soon pass? China has leave most of the NATO countries's airforce in the dust since long times ago.

Actually the only west country China is about to surpass is the US, I find its very amusing when rest pretenders love to group themselves with US, almost like a few of the funny guy you meet who love to brag his best butt buddy's remote uncle is rich or famous whatever.

Which chinese fighters are better than typhoons and Rafale ?

I am curious btw
 
China will soon have air power rivalling the West’s
THERE is no question which country gets the starring role in “The Military Balance”, the latest annual review of the world’s armed forces by the International Institute for Strategic Studies (IISS), a London-based think-tank. Amid renewed jostling between the world’s great powers, it is the pace of military modernisation in China that stands out.



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China’s president, Xi Jinping, wants to be able to challenge America’s military might in the western Pacific. He is making big progress. China’s once bloated armed forces are becoming leaner and a lot more capable. They are also benefiting from a defence budget that is growing at a steady 6-7% a year, in line with GDP. The IISS declares that China has become an innovator in military technology and is “not merely ‘catching up’ with the West”

.For some of the most advanced science, Mr Xi is tapping the private sector. Non-state firms are helping the armed forces to develop quantum technologies that will boost their ability to make use of artificial intelligence and big data, as well as to develop unhackable communications networks. A potential advantage that China has over the West is that its tech firms have little choice about working on military projects. The Pentagon has to woo sceptical Silicon Valley companies. Firms in China do what the government tells them to do.

Such exotic technologies will take time to be deployed on the battlefield. But China’s focus on them may cause the West’s already eroding military edge to disappear entirely. “The Military Balance” offers a striking example of the progress China has made: in two years’ time, if not before, America is likely to lose its monopoly of radar-beating stealth combat aircraft with the introduction into service of China’s Chengdu J-20. This has a much longer range than America’s new F-35 fighter and will be a serious threat to American warships in the Pacific.

At least as worrying for American commanders in the region is the dramatic upgrading of China’s inventory of air-to-air missiles (AAMs). The short-range PL-10, which was introduced in 2015, is regarded by military analysts as comparable in performance to Western equivalents, such as the Sidewinder II. This year, the PL-15, a radar-guided “beyond visual range” missile (BVRAAM), should enter service. Carried by a J-20, the PL-15 can destroy an aircraft 50km away that is trying to evade it. “The Military Balance” believes that a version of the missile is in the works that will have a cruise speed of Mach 3. It is similar in design to the European Meteor, the best BVRAAM in the West’s inventory, which is only just entering service.

Another system, yet to be named, would provide China with an ability to knock out targets as far away as 400km, a far greater range than any other air-to-air weapon in service. It would threaten aircraft that currently operate safely from a considerable distance, such as tankers and planes used for airborne surveillance and control. China’s message to its adversaries with these new missiles is clear. As “The Military Balance” puts it, air superiority “will have to be won—and likely only temporarily—with the commitment of a level of ‘blood and treasure’ not required since the end of the cold war.”




Of course they will. It's not a matter of if but when!
 
J-20 is.

J-10C is comparable.

J-16 is worse.

J-16 and Eurofighter or Rafale are in two different classes, the former being a heavyweight strike fighter and the latter two being medium-weight multirole aircraft.
 
J-20 is.

J-10C is comparable.

J-16 is worse.

To the best my knowledge, none of the euro caranrds get a AESA or ramjet missiles update yet, let along 300-400KM ramjet AA missiles which J-16 can carry.

J-16 can carry these and in the PLA exerise, AESA show huge advantage over PESA thanks to the fact it is far far more robust against electronic countermeasures.

And the tech standard of AESA in China:

According to the chief designer, the AESA radar China provide to PAF as a FC-1 update option has longer detecting range than F-35's APG-81.

And J-16 has far more space and power supply than FC-1 to accomodate much larger AESA radar.
 
To the best my knowledge, none of the euro caranrds get a AESA or ramjet missiles update yet, let along 300-400KM ramjet AA missiles which J-16 can carry.

J-16 can carry these and in the PLA exerise, AESA show huge advantage over PESA thanks to the fact it is far far more robust against electronic countermeasures.

And the tech standard of AESA in China:

According to the chief designer, the AESA radar China provide to PAF as a FC-1 update option has longer detecting range than F-35's APG-81.

And J-16 has far more space and power supply than FC-1 to accomodate much larger AESA radar.
J16 is more powerful than J10c.
 
To the best my knowledge, none of the euro caranrds get a AESA or ramjet missiles update yet, let along 300-400KM ramjet AA missiles which J-16 can carry.

J-16 can carry these and in the PLA exerise, AESA show huge advantage over PESA thanks to the fact it is far far more robust against electronic countermeasures.

And the tech standard of AESA in China:

According to the chief designer, the AESA radar China provide to PAF as a FC-1 update option has longer detecting range than F-35's APG-81.

And J-16 has far more space and power supply than FC-1 to accomodate much larger AESA radar.

I think Rafale has AESA and Meteor ramjet BVRAAM already.
Eurocanards can super cruise and are more agile than J-16. They would win in air combat against J-16.
I agree that Chinese AESA radars are comparable to West.
 
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