If Chinese systems and tech is untested why wouldnt they take a more prominent role in Ukraine, given the most probable trajectory over the Taiwan issue will result in conflict? in ukraine, Western forces have gotten decent insight into their effectiveness (or lack thereof) against a peer rival rather than just some mountain guys in flip flops in the mid-east. Makes sense to use proxies to test this, if only as a guage.
Another great video. Don't listen to anyone who says you cover too many alternate aircraft. I think the opposite, I don't think you should cover anything other than technological breakthroughs in the US. Russia, China,Turkey etc are more than enough to keep channel busy. There are 1000 Western channels but only 1 M7.
Interesting choice of countries especially given that the world’s tech breakthroughs tend to happen in Northeast Asia, Israel, Singapore, and a few countries in Europe/ Australia.
The critics who say you pay too much attention to non Western airfoecee are wrong in my opinion. I appreciate your insights in especially the Russian and Chinese airforces.
@@lars9966 You can count it. I believe he had like 4 videos about su57 including the recent one. Don't count video where he put it all together to make a longer video.
I often come across a ridiculous view: China's military has not been tested in real combat for decades, so its actual combat effectiveness is questionable. I just want to know, which Western country has fought a comparable opponent in recent decades? Don't tell me you're the strongest in kindergarten.
The US did great the last time we fought a major naval war. Umm, in 1945. But we had 25 ships per admiral, so now with out 1.2 admirals per ship we'll do a even better. Right?
@@k53847 I'm not sure if you're being sarcastic. 1945 was almost 80 years ago. Generations have passed. It's not that the US military now isn't strong, but look at the current state of the US shipbuilding industry and the quality control issues at Boeing. Plus, Tesla has factories in both China and the US, and comparing the quality between the two, it's clear that US manufacturing capabilities and quality control have declined significantly. I mean, wars between major powers are wars of attrition. The production speed of ships in the Imperial Japanese Navy was nowhere near comparable to the US. But can the US's current heavy industry production capacity, workforce size, and skill level compare to those during World War II?
Most recent would have been either 91 during the first Gulf War or Iraq again in 2003 during the Second Gulf War, though Iraq was a good bit weaker then than in 1991. Though its hard for Western nations to find comparable opponents since the west fights as a coalition for the most part and the only peers to western nations are other western nations since the USSR collapsed and only recently china.
Honestly I love that you do non western aircraft. I really don't want to watch repetitive slop about how lethal and cool western aircraft are. It's a glaring Achilles heel that Americans don't like to hear about their adversaries in a positive light, even if the purpose is analysis and education. I'd very much rather be informed than pandered to.
I loved reading about Soviet aircraft when I was a kid during the Cold War. Something about the enemy aircraft adds a mystique and exoticness to it. I still think the Mig 25 is a beautiful and bad asz looking plane. It's in my top 3 favorite aircraft.
@@tenzinalexander Shortly after the collapse of the USSR and unification of Germany, combat tests were conducted between the West German aircraft and NATO tactics against the East German Soviet birds of the time (Migs 29s and Sukhois) -the Western side got their clocks cleaned in those tests and it resulted in major internal overhauls. Take any of that "we are the greatest" stuff with a pinch of salt lol You can only ever really know when it comes down to it - no conflict is won on paper and theory alone.
A little correction here 2nd Air brigade don’t have J-10C anymore but converted to J-20 recently and the 44th Air brigade retired J-7G/JJ-7A and received J-10C from the 2nd Air Brigade. Also love watching your videos ❤ Good luck
The West always over-estimate their enemies.. this is so that congress gives them more funding.. ''Oh China has more ships than us! We're lagging behind tremendously - we need to fix our shipyards! yadadadada or else the Chinese navy will outnumber us and we will lose a war in the Pacific!"' and then Congress gives the navy a budget increase with money the amount of half the GDP of the European Union..
They never stopped encircling the chinese. They seem to be laughing at them and thus look stupid, but they do clever things all the time. Sleepy Joe, despite his abysmal performance as a president nowadays, is a great example for this. He was a huge anti-china activist back in the 1980s, but now he is pretending that he said nothing, and making dumb decisions. Because of this characteristic of the US politicians, the chinese never let their guards down.
These people never mention that when China was founded, it confronted the five permanent members of the United Nations. I don't remember the first time the United States signed an armistice.
Wow, as a foreigner, you have a pretty detailed understanding of the organizational structure of the Chinese military. Staff Headquarters, Political Department, Logistics Department, Armaments Department, these are the four ministries of the Chinese military, but they were all reclassified in the 2016 reform, and were changed to 7 ministries (departments), 3 committees, 5 directly affiliated institutions, a total of 15 functional departments. So the description in the video is outdated, but I still have to say that it is amazing for a foreigner to be able to do such in-depth research, and many official think tanks do not have such a level.
@@gusgone4527 likely the FC-31, which has the J-35 designation in the Chinese military. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shenyang_FC-31 It’s also the most obvious offshoot (in terms of design) of the 2007 hack of the US DoD where Chinese hackers were able to steal a lot of data regarding the F-35 JSF.
CONGRATULATIONS seriously. You're one of the VERY few people that so much as consider the following critical areas in your assessment: logistics maintainers and their effects on readiness. Like you, I've been scouring the internet for open source info in these areas, and found little to nothing of use. Around 2 to 3 months ago there was an exceptionally well done deep dive into China's problems with training maintainers as well as the cultural issues with getting the "best and the brightest" to even consider a career in the Chinese military. In a nutshell: Maintainers were getting only a few weeks of overly generalized training before being deployed. This had the effect of making them utterly incapable of diagnosing problems with sophisticated modern weapons, each of which always have their own unique failure modes that can not be corrected without knowing where to look for the root cause of the failure. As a result maintainers could only remove and discard entire systems rather than fix them. That kind of behavior is more than wasteful, it's unsustainable during anything more than a short conflict. Storing malfunctioning equipment to be fixed later carries with it its own problems. You can't simply put things on a shelf. Some things have batteries that have to be removed before storage. Others need to be packed with descants to prevent damage by humidity. Still others have to be packed in something like creosote, grease, or even a specialized substance, to prevent oxidation. And yet more can be extremely susceptible to damage do to temperature extremes. That, and many systems have to be disassembled into sub-assemblies before storage, because some of the sub-assemblies have storage requirements that are incompatible with the storage requirements of other sub-assemblies that are part of that system. And that doesn't even cover systems that employ the use of incredibly toxic substances that require highly trained and equipped personal to so much as be in the same room with them. The point being that the maintenance and storage of modern military systems is an incredibly complex issue that seems to only get more complex with each passing year. Are China's maintainers up to the challenge? According to this video that answer would be a resounding NO! However, since UA-cam only shows when something was posted, but not when it was produced, you have no way of knowing how out of date it is. And like the video I saw, many disappear soon after posting never to be seen again. Lastly there is the cultural issue of careers in the military being seen as a job fit only for ignorant peasants. It's not a problem unique to China, but it can be an exceptionally difficult problem to overcome. The "best and the brightest" of China aren't interested in careers in the military unless a close relative can guarantee their placement in the top echelons of the military where they can essentially steal their way into fabulous wealth. But since China's "best and brightest" are finding high paying jobs near impossible to find of late, with many of them being reduced to working at near starvation wages as delivery men, perhaps the military may have suddenly become a much more attractive choice that it used to be. But that simply brings up the question of whether China's incredibly over leveraged economy, and terminal demographics, would allow China survive even a very short conflict, which is a subject that really should be considered, but not within the scope of this video.
i think you maybe misunderstood several things that’s in Most perspectives of Chinese, entering army is a much glory way in their family. It’s a completely different social consensus comparing with western. In the same time, become maintainer in army mostly means the soldier has graduated from university. This is another system to recruit soldier, if you don’t deep searching these information.
To correct, China's J11B series should be 240, 150 is the number of the previous Air Force. But the dozens of J11BHs of the Navy have been transferred to the Air Force.
The people who say you're focusing too much on OpFor air forces are not seeing the forest through the trees. Understanding what other nations are doing and capable of, and how they're improving is crucial to forming a well rounded understanding of the world and possible future engagements. Yes we're all just armchair generals at the end of the day, but intellectual curiosity is still important and means the difference between being ignorant and being well informed.
I have to agree, you need to go where the news is. Also being from the US I like hearing about other countries programs and progress so I believe you and Auto are doing a bang up job. Love to watch your stuff and it’s always giving me new things to consider and think about. Thanks for the garnet job you do - Hubbib Jäbër
Most of these things end up better and worse than expected. Better than many people think, but more limited than some fear. Like all military platforms, there will be some things it excels at and weak points that if exploited can mean trouble. Regardless, its one of only 3 mass produced stealth aircraft in the world and should be respected as it would be advantaged against many opponents due to this alone. That out of the way, I plan to watch the video later today. Dont forget how much of a surprise to the west helmet mounted cueing for missiles was after the breakup of the soviet union. There are bound to be technological surprises kept in every aircraft's back pocket until day 1 of a war.
You don't need to fear them, all you need to do is respect and you eliminate the risk of underestimating them. But I don't think average westerner can respect China considering all the stereotypes. Lol. Hope the military is different than average westerner.
@@MGZetta Well, lets just say the United States has a proven track record since the 2nd world war of completely overreacting to what we think a potential adversary has on their hands. Its my preferred error response if they have bad information (rather than underestimating a capability), but it shows how the fear (or fearmongering) can be used to drive policy. I do think many 30+ year olds in the west grew up with china as the nation of cheap junk, and supped on the climate of the victory over the soviets. They underestimate china in general. I don''t ever want anything to do with their political system - it has many issues for its citizens - but it is undeniable china has vaulted itself into position as one of the top 2 world powers - and has the potential to become the leading power if their government doesnt end up falling into many of the pitfalls totalitarian governments often do over the long haul.
*lol* Russia is an extremely defensive power. And Russia has enough SAMs, that they can fire 10 at every NATO aircraft in existance, and not run out. Aaaand then in just months, produce enough additional SAMs, to do it AGAIN. Just like USSR, Russia has never tried to counter Nato symmetrically. And the success of SAMs and EW shows that it works.
No. That plane was German. Specifically, an Extra 330LX. And the canopy fell off due to user error. The Dutch pilot (Narine Melcumjan) failed to ensure that the locking pin was in the locked position during the preflight check. The plane did not have any electronics to detect this, and it jarred loose during take off. When the plane was flown upside down, the canopy flipped open, and the sudden rush of air ripped it completely off. Melcumjan was also flying without eye protection, and was lucky to be able to land the plane despite the 100+ mph wind in the eye.
When people were talking about war experience, I just can't stop laughing. The US loves war so much. They never stop going to war with every country of the world and must have a lot of war experience then, but have they won any war(s) at all since World War II? They couldn't even beat the Vietnamese barefoot Vietcoms. For 20 years they couldn't beat the Telibans fighting with only AK47, and now they can't do anything about the Houthis, hahahaha.....
Vietnam was a weapons test bed. The U.S. government knew it wasn't going to win when 80% of the South Vietnamese backed the North Vietnamese. There was a massive pull forward in technology and training. It went from parity with the Soviets to being "30 years" ahead in military technology. Afghanistan and the Iraqi invasion still advanced drone warfare, the Apache and I.E.D. (both sides) technology. Also 80% of the Afghans backed the Taliban even though the Taliban don't even control all of Afghanistan as a territory. Nobody knows how many Houthi rebels there are and like the Taliban, anybody can claim they are a Houthi rebel making killing them all impossible.
@@orlock20the Taliban is only supported by the Pashtun ethnic minority. Every other single ethnic minority in Afghanistan, that’s about 50+% of the total population, either is utterly terrified of, or actively fight against the Taliban.
You clearly dont know what youre talking about then. Win or lose, experience is experience. "You learn more form winning than you do from losing" is the US' whole thing when going into training exercises & such, often handicapping themselves to stack the odds up against themselves.
Thanks for the great videos! Most youtube content from other creators are very surface level and repetitive. It is refreshing to hear what other major powers are doing with their air forces since we are changing from a politically uni-polar to bi/multi-polar landscape. It does nothing good to bury your head in the sand and other peoples are capable of surpassing our own accomplishments. Also, understanding the military capabilities also helps to understand possible political ambitions of those countries or nations. I hear people say that China wants to land troops in the USA or Russia wants to conquer Europe and both of those are physically impossible for both militaries. Its not even close and therefor its not an ambition. Both are built for regional operations and its far more effective to dominate economically with the military being secondary.
1989, as Lockheed was proposing a flight test academy, in BeiJing I met Grumman Aircraft for a job interview. Grumman had a program to remove wings from China’s top fighter, then insert the wingless aircraft into a C-5B and fly it to Bethpage, NY Grumman was getting a contract to upgrade avionics on China’s fighter, including installation of Heads Up Display. After upgrading the aircraft would be delivered back to China and wings remounted
Also consider that the Shenyang J-31 (land-based) and J-35 (carrier-based) will be going into production in the near future. J-31 is likely to be a big export seller given exports of the JF-17 are picking up. I believe the PAF has already ordered the J-31.
USA: Jet $100M, Boat $2000M, Sub $8000M, Carrier $16000M, ICBM $160M, ... China: Jet $20M, Boat $140M, Sub $380M, Carrier $450B, ICBM $14M, ... USA is so corrupt... and the debt.... wow!
You think China is NOT corrupt. LOL its a dictatorship which is marginally more corrupt than capitalism. All countries have corruption to varying degrees.
Interesting review, but there is not a word about Chinese 6th generation fighter which are built by Chengdu Institute 611. Whish to hear your thoughts about this plane.
US economic growth support by its military activities in entire world by war, China economic growth support by its export of consumer goods to entire world.
The domestic economy actually supports China much more than the exports but yeah they are the undisputed king of exports in the whole world. By compounding they are also adding 1 trillion gdp each year which is damn scary.
Jf17 block3 uses KLJ7A active phased array radar, and its ability to detect RCS5 targets is about 150-170KM. But its array is not large, so the TR components are not as many as the F16V Typhoon (with ECRS version) and J10C radars, but it has a better detection range than the Rafale F3. I don't know the specific data of the detection range of the Typhoon and J10C, but the detection range of the KLJ7A radar of the JF17Block3 is not as good as the 200KM+ of the APG83 of the F16 block70 to detect RCS 5 targets. But the Jf17 is just a light fighter, and it is already very good to be able to achieve this detection range.
@@你看个锤子你看I agree as a light fighter its radar performance is impressive and commensurates with the performance of its air to air weapons. It gives a good bang for buck and now has many multidomain weapons and sensors from China Pakistan and Turkey integrated with it.
Let's unify the standards. If the J20 is not considered a fifth-generation aircraft, then the F22 and F35 cannot be considered either. F22's disadvantages: backward sensors and avionics, no EOTS EODAS and other sensors that the J20 has. It doesn't even have IRST that the J16 has. 1. The only thing that is stronger than the J20 is super maneuverability. No matter how strong your maneuverability is, can it be stronger than missiles? 2. F35: The avionics sensors are very advanced, but the disadvantages are: no supersonic cruise capability, not even as fast as the fourth-generation aircraft. The maneuverability is also very ordinary. Some people say that the canard destroys stealth, but the F22's Garrett air intake also destroys stealth.
The F35 can maneuver with a 9G overload, this is a normal overload for modern fighters, which means it enters a circle of the same radius at the same speed as the f22 or rafale. So the f35 can be called the 5th generation.
@@jasonj3599 Uh, I was talking about the fact that the f35 is the fifth generation, and not about the maximum speeds of the j16 and F22, right? Are you stupid? And the J16 is a two-seat Su 35, or Su30 without a front pair of wings, it is optimized for subsonic flight, and the f22 is for flight up to speeds up to 1.8 M. Are you sure that the J16 with a combat load will accelerate to a higher speed than the f22 at an altitude of 11 kilometers? I'm not sure at all. And don't even try to manipulate the facts from Wikipedia here.
For all the reasons,the Russians should give Chinese the credit for not just copying their technology to perfection but also enhancing it with modern avionics and indigenous weaponry.
What unlicensed? The agreement between China and Soviet Union on SU27 collapsed after Soviet Collapsed. The Design and Plans already purchased by China. With Soviet collapsed, China are not bound legally by any countries to make more SU27 derivatives.
I personally think that China's tactical ground strike capability is mainly due to its relative lack of ground strike ammunition compared to the United States, especially the lack of heavy satellite-guided bombs. In terms of laser guidance, I have confirmed that China has an analogue of Paveway. After all, because Beidou did not have a network before, it will be completed in 2020. Now China should have more satellite-guided bombs. Who knows? China's biggest problem is that even in propaganda films, it is not particularly clear, and many things have to be guessed by military enthusiasts.
What do you mean, they have 3 different kinds of GPS guides munitions, and they are mass produced. They likely have a considerable amount of these kinds of bombs.
Nice to see a neutral presentation of various countries and systems. Sure there are some jokes here and there, but they still stay based reality and not try to undermine subject. And always reminding what is known and what is unknown is important, as it helps audience to comprehend the subjects better.
Its always inspiring to see people improve their lives with hard work and determination. I can respect the chinese people while despising their national policy. In the west, we have an issue with totalitarian governments due to a bad history with them. As you can see from world events, the totalitarian government that controls the chinese people is much the same as many in the past - trying to take by force things that are not theirs and oppressing minority peoples they do not like.
@@bleachorange The west are the totalitarian governments. Europe is Europe. The US props up tyrants to funnel cocaine into their own cities. Israel is getting applause while it destroys an entire people.
@@bleachorange How can there govt be bad for them if it has led them to these heights in what? 30yrs? I swear, ideological people are exhausting! This national policy has lifted China to become a force on the international stage. In 1990, how did china look like? But now look at them? Beyond any other nation not called the US. Just fucking 30yrs! And somehow you stand there and spout about how you dislike there national policy coz in your opinion (as if that matters when talking issues concerning Chinese people) there national policy is bad? It discriminates mniorities? oppresses them? How does that make sense to you? Isnt that the same policy that has allowed the nation to become a super power in just 30yrs? Propagandized people always tend to be ideological aswell. Check yourself.
@@alispeed5095 mind you, the rapid growth was because of Western investment and a transfer of skills / technologies / industrial know-how The Chinese Miracle didnt happen all on their own and independently... The Western Industrialist / Investment class was unhappy with their cut of the economic pie as labour unions, environmental protecections was eating some of their lunch. They correctly reckoned that moving manufacturing to places with virtually no environmental protection and labor laws would allow them to pay third world workers a fraction of western pay, produce the products more cheaply while at the same time increasing their profit margins. However, while they were happy with the short term effects of this gambit, they were unable to foresee the long term effects of it. Ie, Chinese were biding their time, upskilling and learning to get to a point to compete on their own merit. Concurrently, this also resulted in a disenfranchisement of the western middle and working class.
Very interesting. One additional factor to consider is that China seems very keen to expand weapons exports. They seem to have developed a number of weapons specifically for export. I wonder if creating a sort of parallel ‘business’ side is a way of increasing internal competition, or perhaps a way of having something to sell without giving away any secrets.
Nations often sell watered down versions of some of their best weapons systems. But sometimes weaponry is developed just for the world arms market, where military budgets for smaller nations may be fairly limited.
I recently read a science fiction novel where Mars ended up being colonized by mostly just the Chinese, because America and the Europeans were too self-involved and had lost the spirit for pioneering. But then the CCP got worried because the large Chinese population on Mars saw themselves as first Martians, and only secondly, citizens of a faraway China. And so a small delegation of CCP officials are sent to Mars for a diplomatic mission to bring the two groups closer together. They discover that the Martian Chinese in many ways live Communist Party values far better than the Chinese of Earth. This is because the harshness of Mars forced the colonists to really help each other and sacrifice.
In my personal Opinion, J-20 is a secret plane. It might have some features that are not even present in F-35 and it can be compared to the 5.5 Gen if not close to the 6th generation aircraft.
@@Kevin.S.Birdwell My view is that the concept of F22 is outdated. If it is used in actual combat, it is essentially the same as the fourth-generation aircraft. With the development of artificial intelligence, the thinking of China's J20B is correct. The fighter jet has ultra-long-range missiles + command combat drones, or serves as an air combat command node. The US F35 TR3 also has this idea.
It's as if any country which dedicates more funds to infrastructure and social services over defence doesn't have the might of the US Army... At the same time, people seem to enjoy subsidised healthcare, education and public services from all those non-US countries. Maybe people should state their priorities before they decide to call a country a "paper tiger" just because that administration invests heavily in other sectors than the military. Even Americans are trapped in a bit of an awkward situation: lowest life expectancy of any advanced economy, trillions in student loan debt, increasing taxes, yet they can't stop cheering when they see a B2 bomber doing a flyby at sports events. Which way, modern man?! :D
"Even Americans are trapped in a bit of an awkward situation" Way more than awkward. USA is getting close to the point where it cannot service its debts. And this despite printing money faster than Weimar. Another TRILLION $ in debt every 3 months. "just because that administration invests heavily in other sectors than the military." See if you can find a source showing the Chinese expansion of infrastructure and housing in the last 30 years, it is simply amazing. Instead, all you hear is "China fail! builds ghost cities!". Yes, they're literally building both entire new citydistricts and their infrastructure without any people prepared to move there, that is INTENTIONAL. Because within 5 years of said construction, most of the housing is occupied and the "empty subway stations" are no longer remotely close to empty. They're doing things smartly, they plan and execute longterm instead of just reacting to whatever deficiencies provides the most profit at the moment. However, it needs to be said that after those 2 USA officers openly talked in 2022 about "once Russia is destroyed, China is next in 2025", China has started a MASSIVE militarisation. Extremely noticeable especially in the production of supertankers, where today, the production is down by 90%, because China diverted their entire production to military ships. Not that this really noticeable for the common people of China anyway. As China's economy is so large, that nowadays it CAN do a surge of military equipment without really slowing down its civillian development programs.
The US spends more per capita in healthcare and with worse outcomes than any other OCDE country. You could literaly create a national healthcare system, increase life expectancy and all while spending less money. The only reasob you don't is not because of military spending. Its because the people are stupid and think anything related to the state providing services = communism. American don't understand there are mixed systems such as social democracy.
It also helps that China doesn't have lobbyists that raise costs to ten times their actual value. A US MQ9 costs 30 million dollars, and the Chinese equivalent costs 2 million. Most of the US defense budget goes to Raytheon executives yachts.
"The Chinese Air Force: Dragon or Paper Tiger?" Both of course. But they're doing a pretty good job replacing the paper with scales ever since those 2 US officers got caught 2022 publicly and OPENLY talking about how the plan was that first Russia would be destroyed and then China was next in 2025. Chinese military buildup is also the reason why production of supertankers have dropped by around 80-90% since 2022. And the reason why China's 200-ish ICBMs, liquid fuelled that takes hours at minimum to launch, obsolete enough that USAs airdefence may be able to intercept most of the warheads, are now being rapidly replaced by solid fuel(ie no need to fuel them before launch) rockets, no gyro that has to be spun up "manually" and no 50+ years old parts for maintenance that haven't been made in serial production for decades. And above all else, modern MIRV warheads with decoys, the kind that USAs airdefence has no real hope of stopping, at all. "plenty of similarities with western airforces" Is that supposed to be a good thing or bad thing comparison?
The Shenyang FC-31Gyrfalcon (J-31 J-35) is the most slept on 5th gen fighter in the world. Probably because the F-35 it wants to be when it grows up is more powerful with its single Pratt & Whitney engine that than the J-35 wirh two Chinese RD-93s. The J-35 is intended for carrier deployment.
Nah. They will accept it with grace. Russia does not have the financial strength nor there is a need to divert funds to upgrade their su-30 flanker series. They are happy with the su-30 capabilities and I don't see why not in their theatre of possible deployment the su-30 flanker is already among the top predator. The Chinese on the other hand has too much funds, so they can divert the funds to R&D and upgrade their existing j-16 and there is a need to do so because of taiwan and a possibility of engagement of Western imperialist in the South China sea in the future.
@@NCM-xy8ow Really? I can read Chinese, so I always thought the statement start from Chinese braging, especially those who always say "we buy su-35 only for the engine" group So there are Russain expert agree that J16 is better then all flanker pre dating 2015?
@@justin-pv6ff "Russia does not have the financial strength nor there is a need to divert funds to upgrade their su-30 flanker series" And yet Russia has upgraded the Su30 to unify all systems with the Su35. The pilots of the Su35 speak of their aircraft as a ferocious machine
@@愛を込めてロシアから they upgrade based on their current needs. If you compare to what the J16 upgrades were that are not presently on the su30, these are seen to be unnecessary and waste of funds. Do remember funds are needed to go to critical areas in need such as shell productions, missiles & bombs, guided munitions, tank upgrades and tank productions, drone production, armoured vehicle production etc. Resources have to prioritise what is needed first.
If Chinese systems and tech is untested why wouldnt they take a more prominent role in Ukraine, given the most probable trajectory over the Taiwan issue will result in conflict? Western forces have gotten decent insight into their effectiveness (or lack thereof) against a peer rival rather than just some mountain guys in flip flops in the mid-east. Makes sense to use proxies to test this. Edit: And since much of Chinese military tech / doctrine is some kind of derivative of Russian / Soviet tech / doctrine, Western knowledge gleaned from Ukraine will thus be useful against the PLA too. You'd think they'd take the opportunity to counter.
Your statement is seriously wrong, it is just a traditional impression. In fact, many weapons involve electronic stealth. China benefits from trade with the West and is more influenced by the West. Even the core of the WS10 engine seems to be more influenced by the F110. For example, China developed its own Aegis combat system as early as 2003, but Russia and Ukraine did not. For example, the J16 only has a similar aerodynamic shape to Russia, and its electronic equipment and radar have nothing to do with the Soviet Union and Russia.
The purpose of not providing weapons to Russia is very simple. Military war is just a continuation of politics, not for online fighting. Besides, with all due respect, the scale of technical weapons actually invested by both Russia and Ukraine is not too large. The main combat mode and thinking are still the artillery clusters and tactical missiles attacking each other in the Soviet era. I have not seen large-scale electronic confrontation and various message system operations in modern warfare. Even the FPV produced by Taobao can be a great threat. This is just an outdated mode of war. The gold content is not as difficult as testing the technology of one's own weapons in the harsh environment of the technical test range of one's own country. Just like the United States, it did not provide Ukraine with F35, but only provided the old F16 (not even block52)
@@你看个锤子你看 "if it aint broke, dont fix it" artillery and missiles have been getting the job done in Ukraine and the "high tech wonder-weapons" have not. Sometimes producing large amounts of something simple (that can be easily replaced) is prevalent over that which is much more expensive, complex, takes a lot of training to master and / or a long time to produce... Sometimes having something that is good enough right now trumps something that is better that will only arrive next week (or if ever) Not even going to mention the economic aspect of this, where it makes little sense to have a $10,000,000.00 tank taken out by a $1000 - $2000 drone. Also, look at the effectiveness of old dumb missiles retrofitted with glide-bomb kits too
@@scroopynooperz9051 OK, FPV is a threat, but the premise is that the battlefield is not subject to electronic suppression. Just like the Chinese battlefield during World War II, the Chinese and Japanese armies lacked automatic firepower, and bayonets and 🗡️ were still effective in close combat, but, I would like to ask, are these cold weapons still effective in the European and Pacific battlefields? No! Just like the Japanese in the Pacific War waving samurai swords and wanting to duel with the Americans, the Americans responded with continuous shooting of Thompson submachine guns. In the same way, the Russians and Ukrainians lack electronic suppression capabilities, so this cheap drone becomes an "effective weapon."
Pretty interesting aspects. The secret is not in having the biggest air force but mobile launch sites. To beat any adversary and I mean any is to have no fixed positions. Radars, launchers everything mobile. Same with any tank or artilery units. Everything that's fixed and stays in the same spot for some time is an easy target.
However, Europe has not developed a high-thrust engine, but China has. The Typhoon's engine is also only a medium-thrust engine.……European engines don't seem to be as comprehensive as Chinese ones. It can only be said that Europe specializes in one aspect. Chinese engines are relatively comprehensive. My opinion is that the thrust and thrust-to-weight ratio of Chinese engines can meet the needs, but the service life is still behind that of the United States. However, now, I think Chinese engines may surpass Russian engines.
@@Henry_the_Eighth_ ? It has nothing to do with Soviet design. The WS10 is said to be "plagiarized" because it has more to do with the F110 core engine. The reason why WS10 is controversial in China is that they chose to copy the F110 core engine, and China did not have the industrial technology foundation in 1990-2000. As a result, the progress of China's domestic engines was very slow at that time, and China rejected the proposal to introduce the AL31F engine for localization, which led to the fact that China's domestic engines could not mature for a long time, and they did not mature until after 2010...
@@Henry_the_Eighth_ But now China's aviation engines have surpassed Russia. Russia's 30 has never been put into actual deployment. The WS15 has completed flight tests on the J20. This is the biggest difference. As for WS10, after WS10B/C matured, China also stopped purchasing AL31F from Russia.
@@你看个锤子你看 There's only so much you can do from industrial espionage, that's all I'm saying. While countries like the US and Russia have decades of extensive experience onto production of aircraft frames/engines/electronics, China has been in a chasing position for a long time. Even with all the money and capabilities to copy indigenous designs of other countries, China is still a long way from attaining a real "independence" design and production-wise.
It's because the J20 like the F22 is primarely an air supremacy fighter. It has multirole capabilities just like the F22 but it's made almost exclusively for air to air engagements. The F35 is a true multirole. The Chinese chose not to make an ultra-expensive super high tech aircraft just to then send it to launch bombs at a tank column where it can get easily shot down. The reason why the Americans chose a true multirole as their primary 5th gen stealth fighter is because they were more confident in their capacity of producing them in very large numbers and also in their SEAD capabilities. If you ask me, that seems like arogant overconfidence and the work of a people who think that all of their enemies have inferior cheap cardboard weapons from Alibaba and the work of defence industry leaders who want to score extremely expensive contracts. Metaphorically speaming, the US DOD spends 1000$ on a military issue toothbrush
@@daniels0376 I think the 4.5 generation fighter jets have a higher cost-effectiveness in ground strikes. Because for the fifth generation fighter jets, take the F35 for example, if it maintains stealth, it means it can only have one bomb in the magazine, + two air-to-air missiles. If it is fully loaded with bombs, it means there are no air-to-air missiles. This will affect combat effectiveness. If it is equipped with external ammunition? Oh my god, then stealth will be sacrificed. It is better to continue using 4.5 generation fighter jets.
The J-20 is compared to the F-35 instead of the F-22 because the latter is an out-of production dead end. It's actually very likely at this point that by the time J-20 enters any form of real combat, most of the F-22 fleet will have been retired.
Hi Gus. Tried to send answer as reply, but your system won't have it. So here I send it separately: This is relatively simple: they don't HAVE TO BE opponents. Chances are, they will. They are opponents today and are both working hard on annoying each other over Taiwan, the Chinese Sea and,and,and.... Russia is today already at a serious crossroads, looking at what is happening inside Russia and calculating that Russia probably will loose the war there is an economical desaster looming on the horizon, or even at the garden gate! This will also lead to reparation payments, directly, indirectly doesn't matter. Having to pay for that, having to repair the political and financial desaster they already are in AND having to rebuild their military complex is going to take decades. In addition, a huge percentage of young people have died in the Ukraine and a lot have fled to other countries. Both these things lead to a crippling BRAIN-DRAIN, and that in addition to what I have written here makes it near to impossible to rebuild their military complex in 20 Years. This also will have huge implications on every departement of the Russian governing body. If you take all these problems plus the rampant corruption in Russia, all bets are off! All of this shouts out for desperate money saving measures. There the recall of all "externally " fighting troops from various locations in the world will be essential. It is not the question if the US or Russia have more external wars or "Activity-Areas", it is only important to not have to spend money on external issues instead of using it at home. That's about it!
someone living in a parallel universe just commented. The war only drive more resources to be input in to Russia military complex, even if they need to starve. Millitary biz will boom. That's the right logic. Everything else is just BS.
I really like this Italian who discusses modern airforce technologies with his vacuum cleaner! If he had a better name for his Channel here, I'd refer to him by that instead when I share.
What are you on? the C919 is literally flying all over China, more than 1000 orders have been placed already in China... lol. Ramping up production of jets is slow especially because they're still replacing foreign parts and those can't ramp up nearly as fast
@@1ycan-eu9ji Agree and it can take decades. It is a slow process. You also need to train pilots and engineers with new parts and technology. But China is making huge improvements. Soon it will surpass Russia
@@muhtadaali8847 Well Comac poached an airbus designer so their plane is very similar to an airbus interior, less training is necessary. The reason ramping up doesn't happen by boeing/airbus is because they're afraid they'll be left with over capacity they can't sell, meaning wasted money. Comac I do believe is willing to over commit
there is also KJ500 AWAC, JH7 belongs to Navy aviation group and , J20 production is somewhat 300, J20 production will soon be ended and J20B production will take place
Imagine not wanting to know as much as possible about the aircraft used by potential opponents. Anyone complaining about learning more are clearly only interested in propaganda.
Or just want to live in a bubble. I mean, it's far easier for people to think of Chinese forces as just a whole bunch of endless zombies that are easy to kill, rather than analyzing and coming up with a sound response.
No matter the source, it is extremely difficult to know the actual numbers as they keep these things very secretive especially on their airframe numbers.
I suggest that you reconsider the role of the "political department". It's a common mistake to see PLA as the being derived from the Soviet military but the former evolved independently from the latter. Even though both militaries have political officers, their role in the PLA is far more important and persistent than their counterparts in the Soviet military. The role of the political officers is to ensure that the military remains loyal to the party and carry out party political objectives, rather than becoming an interest group of its own. The importance of political officers remains critical to the PLA to this day. There is one political officer for every level of military unit from company level upward, and there's also a "political department" from regimental level upward, which functions as the staff of the political officer in the unit.
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If Chinese systems and tech is untested why wouldnt they take a more prominent role in Ukraine, given the most probable trajectory over the Taiwan issue will result in conflict? in ukraine, Western forces have gotten decent insight into their effectiveness (or lack thereof) against a peer rival rather than just some mountain guys in flip flops in the mid-east.
Makes sense to use proxies to test this, if only as a guage.
@@scroopynooperz9051Because China doesn't want to be sanctioned.
Does ground news source from Chinese websites?
I hope you talk about how effective Ka-52 has become.
Your numbers for operational modern fighters is actually quite low. Official estimates are at around 300 J-16 and J-20 already.
Another great video. Don't listen to anyone who says you cover too many alternate aircraft. I think the opposite, I don't think you should cover anything other than technological breakthroughs in the US. Russia, China,Turkey etc are more than enough to keep channel busy. There are 1000 Western channels but only 1 M7.
Interesting choice of countries especially given that the world’s tech breakthroughs tend to happen in Northeast Asia, Israel, Singapore, and a few countries in Europe/ Australia.
I said not to cover the US unless it makes a breakthrough.
true😊
@chad❤bernard2641
@@chadbernard2641Which is doubtful! 😂
The critics who say you pay too much attention to non Western airfoecee are wrong in my opinion.
I appreciate your insights in especially the Russian and Chinese airforces.
Ain't no way bro has critics. I'm pretty sure he has more video on F35 than any other plane.
Having a look at distinct minor forces and their ways of building AF would be welcome as well.
@@MGZettauh i think most his videos abt a topic is the su 57, he wanted to start on the eurofighter too but he said nothing special yet about it
He's one of the indirect funded delusion media caster affiliates to US $1.5 Trillion global anti-China champagne scheme.
@@lars9966 You can count it. I believe he had like 4 videos about su57 including the recent one. Don't count video where he put it all together to make a longer video.
I often come across a ridiculous view: China's military has not been tested in real combat for decades, so its actual combat effectiveness is questionable.
I just want to know, which Western country has fought a comparable opponent in recent decades? Don't tell me you're the strongest in kindergarten.
The US did great the last time we fought a major naval war. Umm, in 1945. But we had 25 ships per admiral, so now with out 1.2 admirals per ship we'll do a even better. Right?
@@k53847
I'm not sure if you're being sarcastic. 1945 was almost 80 years ago. Generations have passed.
It's not that the US military now isn't strong, but look at the current state of the US shipbuilding industry and the quality control issues at Boeing. Plus, Tesla has factories in both China and the US, and comparing the quality between the two, it's clear that US manufacturing capabilities and quality control have declined significantly. I mean, wars between major powers are wars of attrition. The production speed of ships in the Imperial Japanese Navy was nowhere near comparable to the US. But can the US's current heavy industry production capacity, workforce size, and skill level compare to those during World War II?
@@FredGuia-s1phe sounded sarcastic to me… anyway, great original comment , fully agree.
@@FredGuia-s1p Yup, 100% sarcastic. At least the Navy won't be tasked with bringing democracy to the Tuna and Pollock nations.
Most recent would have been either 91 during the first Gulf War or Iraq again in 2003 during the Second Gulf War, though Iraq was a good bit weaker then than in 1991. Though its hard for Western nations to find comparable opponents since the west fights as a coalition for the most part and the only peers to western nations are other western nations since the USSR collapsed and only recently china.
This channel is basically 5% videos and 95% research of all efforts
Is it good or bad?
@@Millennium7HistoryTechgood
@@Millennium7HistoryTechGreatest quality i've seen on UA-cam
Its good.
@@Millennium7HistoryTechtoo good 😁. You are doing an incredible work sir.
不要纠正外国博主关于中国军事知识的错误。
这本身就是信息战的一部分。
byd，湛壶焗是真的
Everybody quiet!
说得好，以利谋之者，恒不可以明道。
说的对
说的对
Honestly I love that you do non western aircraft. I really don't want to watch repetitive slop about how lethal and cool western aircraft are. It's a glaring Achilles heel that Americans don't like to hear about their adversaries in a positive light, even if the purpose is analysis and education. I'd very much rather be informed than pandered to.
I loved reading about Soviet aircraft when I was a kid during the Cold War. Something about the enemy aircraft adds a mystique and exoticness to it. I still think the Mig 25 is a beautiful and bad asz looking plane. It's in my top 3 favorite aircraft.
@@tenzinalexander Shortly after the collapse of the USSR and unification of Germany, combat tests were conducted between the West German aircraft and NATO tactics against the East German Soviet birds of the time (Migs 29s and Sukhois) -the Western side got their clocks cleaned in those tests and it resulted in major internal overhauls.
Take any of that "we are the greatest" stuff with a pinch of salt lol
You can only ever really know when it comes down to it - no conflict is won on paper and theory alone.
"pandered to " I see what you did there ...................
We don't care that he covers non western aircraft but he simps them so hard 😂
I like a good old glazing too but it gets boring once in a while. Lol.
A little correction here 2nd Air brigade don’t have J-10C anymore but converted to J-20 recently and the 44th Air brigade retired J-7G/JJ-7A and received J-10C from the 2nd Air Brigade.
Also love watching your videos ❤ Good luck
Noted!
U r in Pakistani airforce
@@MrHousehusband-z6g
No
Wait a 4th gen can be upgraded to 5th?
@@ry0usama511no, just replaced.
The west are always like to laugh at chinese until they need to bann and encircle the chinese. 😂
The West always over-estimate their enemies.. this is so that congress gives them more funding..
''Oh China has more ships than us! We're lagging behind tremendously - we need to fix our shipyards! yadadadada or else the Chinese navy will outnumber us and we will lose a war in the Pacific!"' and then Congress gives the navy a budget increase with money the amount of half the GDP of the European Union..
They never stopped encircling the chinese. They seem to be laughing at them and thus look stupid, but they do clever things all the time. Sleepy Joe, despite his abysmal performance as a president nowadays, is a great example for this. He was a huge anti-china activist back in the 1980s, but now he is pretending that he said nothing, and making dumb decisions. Because of this characteristic of the US politicians, the chinese never let their guards down.
@user-jv5te4op5o , 100 agreed.
These people never mention that when China was founded, it confronted the five permanent members of the United Nations. I don't remember the first time the United States signed an armistice.
Wow, as a foreigner, you have a pretty detailed understanding of the organizational structure of the Chinese military. Staff Headquarters, Political Department, Logistics Department, Armaments Department, these are the four ministries of the Chinese military, but they were all reclassified in the 2016 reform, and were changed to 7 ministries (departments), 3 committees, 5 directly affiliated institutions, a total of 15 functional departments.
So the description in the video is outdated, but I still have to say that it is amazing for a foreigner to be able to do such in-depth research, and many official think tanks do not have such a level.
Not really lots of comments pointed on his holes in his research
你说那么多干吗
Vacuum cleaner: "- I might have a way to fix the problem."
"- Is it legal?"
"- I don't care! I'm a vacuum cleaner, I'm not punishable by law."
😂
His name is 'Otis', right? The first couple times I heard it, I thought he was saying 'Autist'. ;-)
The J35 recently took off from the liaoning (non EMALS carrier)
Are you talking about the F35B or F35C?
@@gusgone4527 J not F
@@gusgone4527F-35C wannabe
@@korzer Certainly not that ChiCom crap.
@@gusgone4527 likely the FC-31, which has the J-35 designation in the Chinese military.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shenyang_FC-31
It’s also the most obvious offshoot (in terms of design) of the 2007 hack of the US DoD where Chinese hackers were able to steal a lot of data regarding the F-35 JSF.
CONGRATULATIONS seriously.
You're one of the VERY few people that so much as consider the following critical areas in your assessment:
logistics
maintainers
and their effects on readiness.
Like you, I've been scouring the internet for open source info in these areas, and found little to nothing of use. Around 2 to 3 months ago there was an exceptionally well done deep dive into China's problems with training maintainers as well as the cultural issues with getting the "best and the brightest" to even consider a career in the Chinese military.
In a nutshell: Maintainers were getting only a few weeks of overly generalized training before being deployed. This had the effect of making them utterly incapable of diagnosing problems with sophisticated modern weapons, each of which always have their own unique failure modes that can not be corrected without knowing where to look for the root cause of the failure. As a result maintainers could only remove and discard entire systems rather than fix them. That kind of behavior is more than wasteful, it's unsustainable during anything more than a short conflict. Storing malfunctioning equipment to be fixed later carries with it its own problems. You can't simply put things on a shelf. Some things have batteries that have to be removed before storage. Others need to be packed with descants to prevent damage by humidity. Still others have to be packed in something like creosote, grease, or even a specialized substance, to prevent oxidation. And yet more can be extremely susceptible to damage do to temperature extremes. That, and many systems have to be disassembled into sub-assemblies before storage, because some of the sub-assemblies have storage requirements that are incompatible with the storage requirements of other sub-assemblies that are part of that system. And that doesn't even cover systems that employ the use of incredibly toxic substances that require highly trained and equipped personal to so much as be in the same room with them. The point being that the maintenance and storage of modern military systems is an incredibly complex issue that seems to only get more complex with each passing year. Are China's maintainers up to the challenge? According to this video that answer would be a resounding NO! However, since UA-cam only shows when something was posted, but not when it was produced, you have no way of knowing how out of date it is. And like the video I saw, many disappear soon after posting never to be seen again.
Lastly there is the cultural issue of careers in the military being seen as a job fit only for ignorant peasants. It's not a problem unique to China, but it can be an exceptionally difficult problem to overcome. The "best and the brightest" of China aren't interested in careers in the military unless a close relative can guarantee their placement in the top echelons of the military where they can essentially steal their way into fabulous wealth. But since China's "best and brightest" are finding high paying jobs near impossible to find of late, with many of them being reduced to working at near starvation wages as delivery men, perhaps the military may have suddenly become a much more attractive choice that it used to be.
But that simply brings up the question of whether China's incredibly over leveraged economy, and terminal demographics, would allow China survive even a very short conflict, which is a subject that really should be considered, but not within the scope of this video.
i think you maybe misunderstood several things that’s in Most perspectives of Chinese, entering army is a much glory way in their family. It’s a completely different social consensus comparing with western. In the same time, become maintainer in army mostly means the soldier has graduated from university. This is another system to recruit soldier, if you don’t deep searching these information.
"You cant just start a war to test your military forces in real operations..."
oh boy... should we tell him? 😂😂
😂😂😅
I think they keywords was what was said after that statement... "No one sane will do that". Clearly US military isn't exactly sane.
It's a dire warning that supreme commander of a military should not be selected by idiotic voters.
Do you think China is studying the Ukrainian war with Russia? Because Russia also learning so much about what works and what doesn't.
@@doc0core Guess that rules out democracy, then.
To correct, China's J11B series should be 240, 150 is the number of the previous Air Force. But the dozens of J11BHs of the Navy have been transferred to the Air Force.
你不需要更正。
让其保持错误认知就行。
This guy didnt even get chinas map right 😂😂
你很懂啊，你替他们更正数据对中国国家利益有任何帮助吗
@@maxxieyuan 人家懂哥，不然怎么显得人家能呢。不管数据真假，一点政治自觉都没有。
Q: which stealth fighter jet is battle tested?
A: F22. It shot down a baloon. 😂
One more balloon than any other stealth fighters. BTW, F22 was designed in early 1980s. Coping 1980 designs now is kind of slow. No?
Maybe bring a worthy opponent before you start laughing about the concept of battle-tested.
@@forcexjr1566 what's battle tested in your mind?
@@georgeeagle872 F-15 with more than a hundred KS. As a bonus you can also add in the fact that it could land safely even with a wing torn off.
You can argue the F35 is now more battle tested than the F22. Considering Israel is using it in battle this very moment.
I consider you a trusted source for aerospace news.
Thank you for all your hard work.
Thanks again for letting us in about Ground News.
Best aviation channel on UA-cam by far. Thnx alot
The people who say you're focusing too much on OpFor air forces are not seeing the forest through the trees. Understanding what other nations are doing and capable of, and how they're improving is crucial to forming a well rounded understanding of the world and possible future engagements. Yes we're all just armchair generals at the end of the day, but intellectual curiosity is still important and means the difference between being ignorant and being well informed.
Why learn more about how other countries do things when u can continue in your own ignorance. Learning new things is scary.
Congrats. Unbiased and UNIQUE content.
I have to agree, you need to go where the news is. Also being from the US I like hearing about other countries programs and progress so I believe you and Auto are doing a bang up job. Love to watch your stuff and it’s always giving me new things to consider and think about. Thanks for the garnet job you do - Hubbib Jäbër
Most of these things end up better and worse than expected. Better than many people think, but more limited than some fear. Like all military platforms, there will be some things it excels at and weak points that if exploited can mean trouble. Regardless, its one of only 3 mass produced stealth aircraft in the world and should be respected as it would be advantaged against many opponents due to this alone.
That out of the way, I plan to watch the video later today. Dont forget how much of a surprise to the west helmet mounted cueing for missiles was after the breakup of the soviet union. There are bound to be technological surprises kept in every aircraft's back pocket until day 1 of a war.
You don't need to fear them, all you need to do is respect and you eliminate the risk of underestimating them. But I don't think average westerner can respect China considering all the stereotypes. Lol. Hope the military is different than average westerner.
@@MGZetta Well, lets just say the United States has a proven track record since the 2nd world war of completely overreacting to what we think a potential adversary has on their hands. Its my preferred error response if they have bad information (rather than underestimating a capability), but it shows how the fear (or fearmongering) can be used to drive policy. I do think many 30+ year olds in the west grew up with china as the nation of cheap junk, and supped on the climate of the victory over the soviets. They underestimate china in general. I don''t ever want anything to do with their political system - it has many issues for its citizens - but it is undeniable china has vaulted itself into position as one of the top 2 world powers - and has the potential to become the leading power if their government doesnt end up falling into many of the pitfalls totalitarian governments often do over the long haul.
I appreciate your approach, covering lesser covered subjects is really nice when no one goes in depth as much as yourself.
Now you are talking... China is the real deal to compare with USA, not Russia.
To a point. China is a lot like modern boeing. They could give you a great fighter but the canopy has a tendency to fly off
*lol*
Russia is an extremely defensive power. And Russia has enough SAMs, that they can fire 10 at every NATO aircraft in existance, and not run out.
Aaaand then in just months, produce enough additional SAMs, to do it AGAIN.
Just like USSR, Russia has never tried to counter Nato symmetrically.
And the success of SAMs and EW shows that it works.
No. That plane was German. Specifically, an Extra 330LX. And the canopy fell off due to user error. The Dutch pilot (Narine Melcumjan) failed to ensure that the locking pin was in the locked position during the preflight check. The plane did not have any electronics to detect this, and it jarred loose during take off. When the plane was flown upside down, the canopy flipped open, and the sudden rush of air ripped it completely off. Melcumjan was also flying without eye protection, and was lucky to be able to land the plane despite the 100+ mph wind in the eye.
@@DIREWOLFx75 When you factor in all the stones and missiles that have managed to land in their territory, it clearly isn't all that.
We'd get smacked if we invaded either
When people were talking about war experience, I just can't stop laughing. The US loves war so much. They never stop going to war with every country of the world and must have a lot of war experience then, but have they won any war(s) at all since World War II? They couldn't even beat the Vietnamese barefoot Vietcoms. For 20 years they couldn't beat the Telibans fighting with only AK47, and now they can't do anything about the Houthis, hahahaha.....
A political win is different from a military win..
Vietnam was a weapons test bed. The U.S. government knew it wasn't going to win when 80% of the South Vietnamese backed the North Vietnamese. There was a massive pull forward in technology and training. It went from parity with the Soviets to being "30 years" ahead in military technology. Afghanistan and the Iraqi invasion still advanced drone warfare, the Apache and I.E.D. (both sides) technology. Also 80% of the Afghans backed the Taliban even though the Taliban don't even control all of Afghanistan as a territory. Nobody knows how many Houthi rebels there are and like the Taliban, anybody can claim they are a Houthi rebel making killing them all impossible.
@@orlock20the Taliban is only supported by the Pashtun ethnic minority. Every other single ethnic minority in Afghanistan, that’s about 50+% of the total population, either is utterly terrified of, or actively fight against the Taliban.
@@asdrubalanibal6853 70,000 Taliban couldn't have taken over Afghanistan within days if the Taliban had so many haters.
You clearly dont know what youre talking about then. Win or lose, experience is experience. "You learn more form winning than you do from losing" is the US' whole thing when going into training exercises & such, often handicapping themselves to stack the odds up against themselves.
thank you for the hard work, I trust on your information.
drones big and small is becoming a challenge to traditional airpower...
Thanks for the great videos! Most youtube content from other creators are very surface level and repetitive. It is refreshing to hear what other major powers are doing with their air forces since we are changing from a politically uni-polar to bi/multi-polar landscape. It does nothing good to bury your head in the sand and other peoples are capable of surpassing our own accomplishments.
Also, understanding the military capabilities also helps to understand possible political ambitions of those countries or nations. I hear people say that China wants to land troops in the USA or Russia wants to conquer Europe and both of those are physically impossible for both militaries. Its not even close and therefor its not an ambition. Both are built for regional operations and its far more effective to dominate economically with the military being secondary.
1989, as Lockheed was proposing a flight test academy, in BeiJing I met Grumman Aircraft for a job interview. Grumman had a program to remove wings from China’s top fighter, then insert the wingless aircraft into a C-5B and fly it to Bethpage, NY
Grumman was getting a contract to upgrade avionics on China’s fighter, including installation of Heads Up Display. After upgrading the aircraft would be delivered back to China and wings remounted
Wild.
Also consider that the Shenyang J-31 (land-based) and J-35 (carrier-based) will be going into production in the near future. J-31 is likely to be a big export seller given exports of the JF-17 are picking up. I believe the PAF has already ordered the J-31.
looking fwd to more China Aviation vids.
Still shallow for Chinese subscribers, but overall comprehensive enough. Keep it up
USA: Jet $100M, Boat $2000M, Sub $8000M, Carrier $16000M, ICBM $160M, ...
China: Jet $20M, Boat $140M, Sub $380M, Carrier $450B, ICBM $14M, ...
USA is so corrupt... and the debt.... wow!
You think China is NOT corrupt. LOL its a dictatorship which is marginally more corrupt than capitalism. All countries have corruption to varying degrees.
Reading this turned my brain into mush
错误的，中国J20一亿美元，055驱逐舰9亿美元，最新航空母舰福建舰80亿美元左右。
Isn't this to confirm that China is of no threat? Cheap things, no good, good things, no cheap! 😁
@@hngyuli7455 Of course the US military has the best stuff. Even a bag of bolts costs 90k dollars. LOL
You are the best in the field M7! ..not just information, but analysis, projection, and naturally entertaining
Interesting review, but there is not a word about Chinese 6th generation fighter which are built by Chengdu Institute 611. Whish to hear your thoughts about this plane.
Excellent work Millennium 7.👏
US economic growth support by its military activities in entire world by war, China economic growth support by its export of consumer goods to entire world.
So to stop China economic growth, kill the consumers?😮
The domestic economy actually supports China much more than the exports but yeah they are the undisputed king of exports in the whole world. By compounding they are also adding 1 trillion gdp each year which is damn scary.
Yep! For the time being....
Nice Video as always.
Hello Sir, I hope you are great,i am very grateful if you make a dedicated video about jf 17 block 3 and especially AESA radar significance.
Jf17 block3 uses KLJ7A active phased array radar, and its ability to detect RCS5 targets is about 150-170KM. But its array is not large, so the TR components are not as many as the F16V Typhoon (with ECRS version) and J10C radars, but it has a better detection range than the Rafale F3. I don't know the specific data of the detection range of the Typhoon and J10C, but the detection range of the KLJ7A radar of the JF17Block3 is not as good as the 200KM+ of the APG83 of the F16 block70 to detect RCS 5 targets. But the Jf17 is just a light fighter, and it is already very good to be able to achieve this detection range.
@@你看个锤子你看
@@你看个锤子你看I agree as a light fighter its radar performance is impressive and commensurates with the performance of its air to air weapons. It gives a good bang for buck and now has many multidomain weapons and sensors from China Pakistan and Turkey integrated with it.
This is by far, The best Channel for armchair generals like us!!! Thank you very much for your dedication!!! Keep up The good Work!!!
Let's unify the standards. If the J20 is not considered a fifth-generation aircraft, then the F22 and F35 cannot be considered either. F22's disadvantages: backward sensors and avionics, no EOTS EODAS and other sensors that the J20 has. It doesn't even have IRST that the J16 has. 1. The only thing that is stronger than the J20 is super maneuverability. No matter how strong your maneuverability is, can it be stronger than missiles? 2. F35: The avionics sensors are very advanced, but the disadvantages are: no supersonic cruise capability, not even as fast as the fourth-generation aircraft. The maneuverability is also very ordinary. Some people say that the canard destroys stealth, but the F22's Garrett air intake also destroys stealth.
i agree with you
@@user-uc7kg4wp7c thanks 🙏
The F35 can maneuver with a 9G overload, this is a normal overload for modern fighters, which means it enters a circle of the same radius at the same speed as the f22 or rafale. So the f35 can be called the 5th generation.
@@愛を込めてロシアから Maximum speed is not equal to cruising speed...If you only look at the maximum speed, the J16 is no slower than the F22.
@@jasonj3599 Uh, I was talking about the fact that the f35 is the fifth generation, and not about the maximum speeds of the j16 and F22, right? Are you stupid?
And the J16 is a two-seat Su 35, or Su30 without a front pair of wings, it is optimized for subsonic flight, and the f22 is for flight up to speeds up to 1.8 M.
Are you sure that the J16 with a combat load will accelerate to a higher speed than the f22 at an altitude of 11 kilometers? I'm not sure at all.
And don't even try to manipulate the facts from Wikipedia here.
As usual excellent materiał.thank you.
Keep up the good work of covering the topics that others MISS. That’s what makes M7 special!
For all the reasons,the Russians should give Chinese the credit for not just copying their technology to perfection but also enhancing it with modern avionics and indigenous weaponry.
lol no, chinese equipment's reliability is way less than Russian
@@Utubeisevil
Seeing what's happening in Ukraine, maybe you should not rush to this conclusion so soon.
J-11 is LICENSED copy of Su-27, subsequent variants are unlicensed Chinese derivatives
What unlicensed? The agreement between China and Soviet Union on SU27 collapsed after Soviet Collapsed. The Design and Plans already purchased by China. With Soviet collapsed, China are not bound legally by any countries to make more SU27 derivatives.
I personally think that China's tactical ground strike capability is mainly due to its relative lack of ground strike ammunition compared to the United States, especially the lack of heavy satellite-guided bombs. In terms of laser guidance, I have confirmed that China has an analogue of Paveway. After all, because Beidou did not have a network before, it will be completed in 2020. Now China should have more satellite-guided bombs. Who knows? China's biggest problem is that even in propaganda films, it is not particularly clear, and many things have to be guessed by military enthusiasts.
What do you mean, they have 3 different kinds of GPS guides munitions, and they are mass produced. They likely have a considerable amount of these kinds of bombs.
用啥制导炸弹，直接上远火不就完事了
@@吴佳璠问题是拆楼还真需要制导炸弹，你看俄罗斯FAB就知道了
@@voidtempering8700 After 2020, there will be
@@你看个锤子你看 Its 2024.
Nice to see a neutral presentation of various countries and systems.
Sure there are some jokes here and there, but they still stay based reality and not try to undermine subject.
And always reminding what is known and what is unknown is important, as it helps audience to comprehend the subjects better.
They are going to attack us after LeBron James retires (they love NBA basketball).
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Don't forget John Xina
P. Diddy already diddled Lebron James 😂😂😂
The funniest GOAT，can't live without him.😆
Leaving a comment for the algorithm and to say thank you for the unparalleled high quality information about this stuff!
There rapid growth should be an inspiration for any country still stuck in poverty.
Its always inspiring to see people improve their lives with hard work and determination. I can respect the chinese people while despising their national policy. In the west, we have an issue with totalitarian governments due to a bad history with them. As you can see from world events, the totalitarian government that controls the chinese people is much the same as many in the past - trying to take by force things that are not theirs and oppressing minority peoples they do not like.
@@bleachorange The west are the totalitarian governments. Europe is Europe. The US props up tyrants to funnel cocaine into their own cities. Israel is getting applause while it destroys an entire people.
@bleachorange lol. Have to clap my hand for know it all westerners
@@bleachorange How can there govt be bad for them if it has led them to these heights in what? 30yrs?
I swear, ideological people are exhausting! This national policy has lifted China to become a force on the international stage. In 1990, how did china look like? But now look at them? Beyond any other nation not called the US. Just fucking 30yrs!
And somehow you stand there and spout about how you dislike there national policy coz in your opinion (as if that matters when talking issues concerning Chinese people) there national policy is bad? It discriminates mniorities? oppresses them?
How does that make sense to you? Isnt that the same policy that has allowed the nation to become a super power in just 30yrs?
Propagandized people always tend to be ideological aswell. Check yourself.
@@alispeed5095 mind you, the rapid growth was because of Western investment and a transfer of skills / technologies / industrial know-how
The Chinese Miracle didnt happen all on their own and independently...
The Western Industrialist / Investment class was unhappy with their cut of the economic pie as labour unions, environmental protecections was eating some of their lunch.
They correctly reckoned that moving manufacturing to places with virtually no environmental protection and labor laws would allow them to pay third world workers a fraction of western pay, produce the products more cheaply while at the same time increasing their profit margins.
However, while they were happy with the short term effects of this gambit, they were unable to foresee the long term effects of it.
Ie, Chinese were biding their time, upskilling and learning to get to a point to compete on their own merit. Concurrently, this also resulted in a disenfranchisement of the western middle and working class.
Very interesting. One additional factor to consider is that China seems very keen to expand weapons exports. They seem to have developed a number of weapons specifically for export. I wonder if creating a sort of parallel ‘business’ side is a way of increasing internal competition, or perhaps a way of having something to sell without giving away any secrets.
Biden said, overcapacity
Nations often sell watered down versions of some of their best weapons systems. But sometimes weaponry is developed just for the world arms market, where military budgets for smaller nations may be fairly limited.
中国的目标是发展外太空发展科技产业，而不是成为像美国一样的帝国，所以中国会发展强大的军事避免遭受美国及其殖民地的侵略，我知道美国会与中国进行经济脱钩，中国同时也在投资东南亚中亚南亚非洲中东南美地区，所以未来中国不会成为世界霸主，但是我认为未来中国的太空产业科技会领先世界，中国国内的科技发展也会领先世界，而美国因为无法在亚洲击败中国，美国只能看着中国不断发展成为世界科技最先进的国家
If that’s the case why are they claiming waters hundreds of miles from their coastal line and Taiwan wich was never ruled by the ccp
Oh yea Tibet aswell
@@gigginbig3 Burma is probably next... Oh, boy...
@@JohnGrigg-gz9gm what?
I recently read a science fiction novel where Mars ended up being colonized by mostly just the Chinese, because America and the Europeans were too self-involved and had lost the spirit for pioneering. But then the CCP got worried because the large Chinese population on Mars saw themselves as first Martians, and only secondly, citizens of a faraway China. And so a small delegation of CCP officials are sent to Mars for a diplomatic mission to bring the two groups closer together. They discover that the Martian Chinese in many ways live Communist Party values far better than the Chinese of Earth. This is because the harshness of Mars forced the colonists to really help each other and sacrifice.
Very interesting to see this perspective - a broad wealth of information only you provide. Thank you
In my personal Opinion, J-20 is a secret plane. It might have some features that are not even present in F-35 and it can be compared to the 5.5 Gen if not close to the 6th generation aircraft.
The two-seater model of the J20 may be equipped with a gallium nitride radar + command air combat drone.
@@jasonj3599 Yes. Some Aviation 🪽 Expert said J-20 as 5.5+ Generation Aircraft. J-31/35 is a 5+ Generation Aircraft.
@@Kevin.S.Birdwell In fact, this design thinking is correct. It is meaningless to simply move as before.
@@Kevin.S.Birdwell My view is that the concept of F22 is outdated. If it is used in actual combat, it is essentially the same as the fourth-generation aircraft. With the development of artificial intelligence, the thinking of China's J20B is correct. The fighter jet has ultra-long-range missiles + command combat drones, or serves as an air combat command node. The US F35 TR3 also has this idea.
@@jasonj3599 Right 👍
It's as if any country which dedicates more funds to infrastructure and social services over defence doesn't have the might of the US Army... At the same time, people seem to enjoy subsidised healthcare, education and public services from all those non-US countries. Maybe people should state their priorities before they decide to call a country a "paper tiger" just because that administration invests heavily in other sectors than the military.
Even Americans are trapped in a bit of an awkward situation: lowest life expectancy of any advanced economy, trillions in student loan debt, increasing taxes, yet they can't stop cheering when they see a B2 bomber doing a flyby at sports events. Which way, modern man?! :D
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"Even Americans are trapped in a bit of an awkward situation"
Way more than awkward. USA is getting close to the point where it cannot service its debts. And this despite printing money faster than Weimar.
Another TRILLION $ in debt every 3 months.
"just because that administration invests heavily in other sectors than the military."
See if you can find a source showing the Chinese expansion of infrastructure and housing in the last 30 years, it is simply amazing.
Instead, all you hear is "China fail! builds ghost cities!". Yes, they're literally building both entire new citydistricts and their infrastructure without any people prepared to move there, that is INTENTIONAL. Because within 5 years of said construction, most of the housing is occupied and the "empty subway stations" are no longer remotely close to empty.
They're doing things smartly, they plan and execute longterm instead of just reacting to whatever deficiencies provides the most profit at the moment.
However, it needs to be said that after those 2 USA officers openly talked in 2022 about "once Russia is destroyed, China is next in 2025", China has started a MASSIVE militarisation. Extremely noticeable especially in the production of supertankers, where today, the production is down by 90%, because China diverted their entire production to military ships.
Not that this really noticeable for the common people of China anyway. As China's economy is so large, that nowadays it CAN do a surge of military equipment without really slowing down its civillian development programs.
The US spends more per capita in healthcare and with worse outcomes than any other OCDE country. You could literaly create a national healthcare system, increase life expectancy and all while spending less money.
The only reasob you don't is not because of military spending. Its because the people are stupid and think anything related to the state providing services = communism. American don't understand there are mixed systems such as social democracy.
It also helps that China doesn't have lobbyists that raise costs to ten times their actual value. A US MQ9 costs 30 million dollars, and the Chinese equivalent costs 2 million. Most of the US defense budget goes to Raytheon executives yachts.
@@92HazelMocha Please keep those purchasing power parity conspiracies to yourself, Uncle Sam would never fleece the taxpayer.
Great work!
"The Chinese Air Force: Dragon or Paper Tiger?"
Both of course. But they're doing a pretty good job replacing the paper with scales ever since those 2 US officers got caught 2022 publicly and OPENLY talking about how the plan was that first Russia would be destroyed and then China was next in 2025.
Chinese military buildup is also the reason why production of supertankers have dropped by around 80-90% since 2022.
And the reason why China's 200-ish ICBMs, liquid fuelled that takes hours at minimum to launch, obsolete enough that USAs airdefence may be able to intercept most of the warheads, are now being rapidly replaced by solid fuel(ie no need to fuel them before launch) rockets, no gyro that has to be spun up "manually" and no 50+ years old parts for maintenance that haven't been made in serial production for decades.
And above all else, modern MIRV warheads with decoys, the kind that USAs airdefence has no real hope of stopping, at all.
"plenty of similarities with western airforces"
Is that supposed to be a good thing or bad thing comparison?
The Shenyang FC-31Gyrfalcon (J-31 J-35) is the most slept on 5th gen fighter in the world. Probably because the F-35 it wants to be when it grows up is more powerful with its single Pratt & Whitney engine that than the J-35 wirh two Chinese RD-93s. The J-35 is intended for carrier deployment.
J16 "The best flanker in the world" shots are fired
time to check how many Russian viewers are here
Nah. They will accept it with grace. Russia does not have the financial strength nor there is a need to divert funds to upgrade their su-30 flanker series. They are happy with the su-30 capabilities and I don't see why not in their theatre of possible deployment the su-30 flanker is already among the top predator.
The Chinese on the other hand has too much funds, so they can divert the funds to R&D and upgrade their existing j-16 and there is a need to do so because of taiwan and a possibility of engagement of Western imperialist in the South China sea in the future.
@@chrisdt2297 That was actually alluded to by a Russian first .. 🤣
@@NCM-xy8ow Really? I can read Chinese, so I always thought the statement start from Chinese braging, especially those who always say "we buy su-35 only for the engine" group
So there are Russain expert agree that J16 is better then all flanker pre dating 2015?
@@justin-pv6ff "Russia does not have the financial strength nor there is a need to divert funds to upgrade their su-30 flanker series" And yet Russia has upgraded the Su30 to unify all systems with the Su35. The pilots of the Su35 speak of their aircraft as a ferocious machine
@@愛を込めてロシアから they upgrade based on their current needs. If you compare to what the J16 upgrades were that are not presently on the su30, these are seen to be unnecessary and waste of funds.
Do remember funds are needed to go to critical areas in need such as shell productions, missiles & bombs, guided munitions, tank upgrades and tank productions, drone production, armoured vehicle production etc.
Resources have to prioritise what is needed first.
Very interesting and objective.
As usual.
Are you aware of the fact that your shirt is several sizes larger than necessary? I'm not kidding, you can check in Wikipedia.
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Ive noticed that shoulder line, looool.
Never argue about fashion with an Italian.
Israel transfer a LOT of US tech to China
Israel sold them the Python AAM in the 90s.
China paid for it. It’s not free. Israel sells and China buys.
感谢以色列🙏🙏🙏
Бред сивой кобылы 😂, израиль союзник лучший США
@@中国-e8c
Only later that Israel betrayed China by not delivering the AWACS.
I really appreciate and enjoy the coverage of non western platforms. Thanks!
If Chinese systems and tech is untested why wouldnt they take a more prominent role in Ukraine, given the most probable trajectory over the Taiwan issue will result in conflict? Western forces have gotten decent insight into their effectiveness (or lack thereof) against a peer rival rather than just some mountain guys in flip flops in the mid-east.
Makes sense to use proxies to test this.
Edit: And since much of Chinese military tech / doctrine is some kind of derivative of Russian / Soviet tech / doctrine, Western knowledge gleaned from Ukraine will thus be useful against the PLA too. You'd think they'd take the opportunity to counter.
Your statement is seriously wrong, it is just a traditional impression. In fact, many weapons involve electronic stealth. China benefits from trade with the West and is more influenced by the West. Even the core of the WS10 engine seems to be more influenced by the F110. For example, China developed its own Aegis combat system as early as 2003, but Russia and Ukraine did not. For example, the J16 only has a similar aerodynamic shape to Russia, and its electronic equipment and radar have nothing to do with the Soviet Union and Russia.
The purpose of not providing weapons to Russia is very simple. Military war is just a continuation of politics, not for online fighting. Besides, with all due respect, the scale of technical weapons actually invested by both Russia and Ukraine is not too large. The main combat mode and thinking are still the artillery clusters and tactical missiles attacking each other in the Soviet era. I have not seen large-scale electronic confrontation and various message system operations in modern warfare. Even the FPV produced by Taobao can be a great threat. This is just an outdated mode of war. The gold content is not as difficult as testing the technology of one's own weapons in the harsh environment of the technical test range of one's own country. Just like the United States, it did not provide Ukraine with F35, but only provided the old F16 (not even block52)
@@你看个锤子你看 is that you Tiangang Wang? How is Mr He Yi doing?
@@你看个锤子你看 "if it aint broke, dont fix it" artillery and missiles have been getting the job done in Ukraine and the "high tech wonder-weapons" have not.
Sometimes producing large amounts of something simple (that can be easily replaced) is prevalent over that which is much more expensive, complex, takes a lot of training to master and / or a long time to produce...
Sometimes having something that is good enough right now trumps something that is better that will only arrive next week (or if ever)
Not even going to mention the economic aspect of this, where it makes little sense to have a $10,000,000.00 tank taken out by a $1000 - $2000 drone.
Also, look at the effectiveness of old dumb missiles retrofitted with glide-bomb kits too
@@scroopynooperz9051 OK, FPV is a threat, but the premise is that the battlefield is not subject to electronic suppression. Just like the Chinese battlefield during World War II, the Chinese and Japanese armies lacked automatic firepower, and bayonets and 🗡️ were still effective in close combat, but, I would like to ask, are these cold weapons still effective in the European and Pacific battlefields? No! Just like the Japanese in the Pacific War waving samurai swords and wanting to duel with the Americans, the Americans responded with continuous shooting of Thompson submachine guns. In the same way, the Russians and Ukrainians lack electronic suppression capabilities, so this cheap drone becomes an "effective weapon."
Pretty interesting aspects. The secret is not in having the biggest air force but mobile launch sites. To beat any adversary and I mean any is to have no fixed positions. Radars, launchers everything mobile. Same with any tank or artilery units. Everything that's fixed and stays in the same spot for some time is an easy target.
as a chinese, i konw pla is juat a paper tiger, no worry to afraid of them, we just love peace
you are talking rubbish
Where is your dog head?
什么年代了都害搁这战忽呢
Tofu dredge copycat 40 year old tech
@@grillnanchilln yeah
Thank you for covering the Chinese air force and closing some of the knowledge gap!
Something more about motors. Seems chinese are making huge progress with turbofan, but can't reach with western, for the moment.
However, Europe has not developed a high-thrust engine, but China has. The Typhoon's engine is also only a medium-thrust engine.……European engines don't seem to be as comprehensive as Chinese ones. It can only be said that Europe specializes in one aspect. Chinese engines are relatively comprehensive. My opinion is that the thrust and thrust-to-weight ratio of Chinese engines can meet the needs, but the service life is still behind that of the United States. However, now, I think Chinese engines may surpass Russian engines.
@@你看个锤子你看 Chinese engines are still relatively unchanged knock-offs of Soviet designs
@@Henry_the_Eighth_ ? It has nothing to do with Soviet design. The WS10 is said to be "plagiarized" because it has more to do with the F110 core engine. The reason why WS10 is controversial in China is that they chose to copy the F110 core engine, and China did not have the industrial technology foundation in 1990-2000. As a result, the progress of China's domestic engines was very slow at that time, and China rejected the proposal to introduce the AL31F engine for localization, which led to the fact that China's domestic engines could not mature for a long time, and they did not mature until after 2010...
@@Henry_the_Eighth_ But now China's aviation engines have surpassed Russia. Russia's 30 has never been put into actual deployment. The WS15 has completed flight tests on the J20. This is the biggest difference. As for WS10, after WS10B/C matured, China also stopped purchasing AL31F from Russia.
@@你看个锤子你看 There's only so much you can do from industrial espionage, that's all I'm saying. While countries like the US and Russia have decades of extensive experience onto production of aircraft frames/engines/electronics, China has been in a chasing position for a long time. Even with all the money and capabilities to copy indigenous designs of other countries, China is still a long way from attaining a real "independence" design and production-wise.
Excellent briefing.
Ah ...Should have named it "Paper Tiger or Hidden Dragon"
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Informative primer as always.
Every comparison of the j20 is in relation to f35, it's very strange that you made it's comparison to the f22? 🤔
you got it very wrong. J-20 is compared to the F-22, whereas J-31 is to the F-35.
It's because the J20 like the F22 is primarely an air supremacy fighter.
It has multirole capabilities just like the F22 but it's made almost exclusively for air to air engagements.
The F35 is a true multirole.
The Chinese chose not to make an ultra-expensive super high tech aircraft just to then send it to launch bombs at a tank column where it can get easily shot down.
The reason why the Americans chose a true multirole as their primary 5th gen stealth fighter is because they were more confident in their capacity of producing them in very large numbers and also in their SEAD capabilities.
If you ask me, that seems like arogant overconfidence and the work of a people who think that all of their enemies have inferior cheap cardboard weapons from Alibaba and the work of defence industry leaders who want to score extremely expensive contracts.
Metaphorically speaming, the US DOD spends 1000$ on a military issue toothbrush
@@daniels0376 I think the 4.5 generation fighter jets have a higher cost-effectiveness in ground strikes. Because for the fifth generation fighter jets, take the F35 for example, if it maintains stealth, it means it can only have one bomb in the magazine, + two air-to-air missiles. If it is fully loaded with bombs, it means there are no air-to-air missiles. This will affect combat effectiveness. If it is equipped with external ammunition? Oh my god, then stealth will be sacrificed. It is better to continue using 4.5 generation fighter jets.
The J-20 is compared to the F-35 instead of the F-22 because the latter is an out-of production dead end. It's actually very likely at this point that by the time J-20 enters any form of real combat, most of the F-22 fleet will have been retired.
@@andrewsuryali8540 I thought they are upgrading the existing ones?
Now this is what Im talking about, Ive veen waiting for some more videos on the chinese.
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Love your videos 💪
Channel like these have struck a last nail to the main stream media's coffin.
they built only one indigenous design j20? Waw they must be quite the superpower blyat
An excellent analysis of the Chinese Air Force, its assets and technological prowess.
Third 😂 I love your videos
Good overview. Thanks Augie!
Missed opportunity to call the video Vigorous Dragon or Paper Tiger
"vigorous dragon" sounds like some pills you sneakily ask your doctor for
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Excelente análise, talvez a melhor que já recebi de uma forma muito sintética e dinâmica, sobre a PLAF. Parabéns pela qualidade das informações!
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Another great vid!
Hi Gus. Tried to send answer as reply, but your system won't have it. So here I send it separately:
This is relatively simple: they don't HAVE TO BE opponents. Chances are, they will. They are opponents today and are both working hard on annoying each other over Taiwan, the Chinese Sea and,and,and....
Russia is today already at a serious crossroads, looking at what is happening inside Russia and calculating that Russia probably will loose the war there is an economical desaster looming on the horizon, or even at the garden gate! This will also lead to reparation payments, directly, indirectly doesn't matter. Having to pay for that, having to repair the political and financial desaster they already are in AND having to rebuild their military complex is going to take decades. In addition, a huge percentage of young people have died in the Ukraine and a lot have fled to other countries. Both these things lead to a crippling BRAIN-DRAIN, and that in addition to what I have written here makes it near to impossible to rebuild their military complex in 20 Years. This also will have huge implications on every departement of the Russian governing body. If you take all these problems plus the rampant corruption in Russia, all bets are off! All of this shouts out for desperate money saving measures. There the recall of all "externally " fighting troops from various locations in the world will be essential. It is not the question if the US or Russia have more external wars or "Activity-Areas", it is only important to not have to spend money on external issues instead of using it at home. That's about it!
Fyi If a youtuber deletes the comment/ filters it, you still see it and others wont, but if youtube itself does it automatically, you do not see it.
@@羴 Thanks! Good to know!😊
Russia will lose the war? Lolllll what dream world are you living in.
someone living in a parallel universe just commented.
The war only drive more resources to be input in to Russia military complex, even if they need to starve. Millitary biz will boom. That's the right logic. Everything else is just BS.
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I really like this Italian who discusses modern airforce technologies with his vacuum cleaner!
If he had a better name for his Channel here, I'd refer to him by that instead when I share.
It is kinda strange that China has an Airforce but can't get the C919 commercial airplane to fly. Something doesn't add up
What are you on? the C919 is literally flying all over China, more than 1000 orders have been placed already in China... lol. Ramping up production of jets is slow especially because they're still replacing foreign parts and those can't ramp up nearly as fast
The only thing that doesn't add up is you retard don't even follow the news, as C919 has been carrying out commercial flight since last year.
@@1ycan-eu9ji Agree and it can take decades. It is a slow process. You also need to train pilots and engineers with new parts and technology. But China is making huge improvements. Soon it will surpass Russia
Are you getting paid by US 1.7 billion propaganda fund? What's with spreading fake news? 😂
@@muhtadaali8847 Well Comac poached an airbus designer so their plane is very similar to an airbus interior, less training is necessary.
The reason ramping up doesn't happen by boeing/airbus is because they're afraid they'll be left with over capacity they can't sell, meaning wasted money.
Comac I do believe is willing to over commit
good content as always
there is also KJ500 AWAC, JH7 belongs to Navy aviation group and , J20 production is somewhat 300, J20 production will soon be ended and J20B production will take place
Excellent. Thank you.
Imagine not wanting to know as much as possible about the aircraft used by potential opponents. Anyone complaining about learning more are clearly only interested in propaganda.
Or just want to live in a bubble. I mean, it's far easier for people to think of Chinese forces as just a whole bunch of endless zombies that are easy to kill, rather than analyzing and coming up with a sound response.
I would watch all the Chinese videos just for the Ottis cameos
may the algorithme be with you !!
Incredible video as always! May I ask what the source is that states only 12 J-16Ds are currently in service?
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No matter the source, it is extremely difficult to know the actual numbers as they keep these things very secretive especially on their airframe numbers.
I suggest that you reconsider the role of the "political department". It's a common mistake to see PLA as the being derived from the Soviet military but the former evolved independently from the latter. Even though both militaries have political officers, their role in the PLA is far more important and persistent than their counterparts in the Soviet military. The role of the political officers is to ensure that the military remains loyal to the party and carry out party political objectives, rather than becoming an interest group of its own. The importance of political officers remains critical to the PLA to this day. There is one political officer for every level of military unit from company level upward, and there's also a "political department" from regimental level upward, which functions as the staff of the political officer in the unit.
Many experts believed the Chinese has achieved 35% 3D printing of complex parts thus the number of annual aircraft production is logical.
Funny, J-20 first official maiden flight was on 11-01-2011, over 13 years ago. Not exactly very fast.....
never underestimate your opponents. personal prejudices can cause a loss in influence and power overall.
Thank you for covering other air forces especially China’s
China is constantly improving its military capabilities. The USA is doomed to be left behind.
GREAT INFORMATIVE VIDEO 👍 🥰