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Originally posted by Daedalus3
Also Russia can choke all supply routes to China across the Caspian and the Middle East. They have the forces all across CARs(Central Asian Republics) over there to do so and China cannot stop that.
Originally posted by Daedalus3
CARs IS Russia!!
Its all Soviet Union stuff!!
We could do a army/AF orbat check and confirm if you'd like.
Originally posted by chinawhite
Iran, sudan, indonesia, australia, saudi arabia, kuwait, venezuela, Kazakhstan. The list actually goes on and on and on.
Chinas own oil production per day 3.504 million bbl/day (2004)
Oil - consumption: 6.391 million bbl/day (2004)
Oil - imports: 3.226 million bbl/day (2004)
In the event of war they will have stopped production of consumer goods and would have shifted those oil supplies (which make up the vast majority of consumtion) to war industries. That where china will get its oil from
Russia has a advanced technology base?.
But lets factor in training and condition of the chinese armed forces compared to the mightly russian frederation. Russian pilots get 20hours of training a year whilst J-8 pilots in china get 180 hours.
I wonder if the russian airforce is cutting back funds for the armaments like the AAM or ground attack missiles to much those rusty buckets even have some attacking capability
Loop holes..........very wishful thinking
Mongolia, Germans WW1, and a host of other countries before russia was even russia
Originally posted by prelude
When the Germans invaded us we f...ed them and replyed by capturing Berlin and using the German soilders as labours to make our underground metro stations
Nepolion was screwed
When mongols invaded there was no country/kingdom called Russia .....Russia came in being when the Romanovs defeated the mongols and united the feudal states
so I am quite justified in saying that
RUSSIA has Never been SUCCESSFULLY Invaded
and if China repeats the same mistake ..History will repeat itself ....
Originally posted by prelude
I dont know about the exact energy dependancy of China
Muslim countries are more likely to stay neutral due to two facts
1 US pressure
2 with present day situation most the Muslim countries are pro Russian
So China will have to fuel herself from within .....stopping the consumer goods to get fuel will put pressure on the Economy which needs to sail smooth in case China wants to win
if it didnot then developing countries like Indioa and China wouldnt have been desperate for Russian military and space Technology
The facts that put forward is atleast 15 years old steriotype about russia u are totally unware of recent developments Russia pilots have set records in all major air shows in the last 10 years
Originally posted by prelude
I havent seen Chinese pilots to set such landmarks
During the combined war game between Russia and US in Germany the US General
so u admit Russian technology is without loopholes?
Russia came in being when the Romanovs defeated the mongols and united the feudal states
China is developing no doubt but still China is not yet in a position to invade Taiwan or India ....forget Russia
Originally posted by chinawhite
All 600,000 thousand of them. One good thing coming out of all these projects is the FC-1, which is using technology only seen on the JSF, It is also showing a nice cockpit confirguration with the three large MFDs. Very nice plane. Lets see how the plane with match the Mig-29/35 in the export market in the next couple of years.
Originally posted by chinawhite
And china can already defeat taiwan and india. As of now china holds a numerial superioty and a technological superioty to both nations. If china was stupid and wanted to go to war and wreak its economy and image than it would win. But the chinese government knows that with economic development is can ebat any other country in the long run. Thats if we human beings can survive 50 more years
Originally posted by rogue1
LOL and what technology is this from teh F-35 ?
I've yet to see this technological superiority
Also woth regards to Taiwan, China doesn't have the capacity to land a decent sized invasion force.
Enough of the chest thumping, how about using a little more brain power - if it's possible.
Finally, one of the largest unanswered questions concerning PLAAF pilots is, “How many hours do they fly per year, and how good is the training during those hours?” Unfortunately, unlike other countries, the PLAAF does not provide this information for the public. However, it is possible to observe some trends from small pieces of data. For example, the PLAAF’s official magazine, China Air Force (Zhongguo Kongjun), occasionally has personal data about its pilots. Three articles between 2002 and 2005 provide information on three non-Sukhoi fighter pilots, who have averaged 115 to 125 hours of flight time per year. [12] Although the articles do not mention the reason for the lack of flying time, one of the primary factors is concern for the limited number of hours the non-Sukhoi fighter engines can have before they are must be overhauled or scrapped.
Although China Air Force now has lots of articles with information about the PLAAF’s Sukhoi pilot training, they do not provide data about flying hours for the pilots. However, the photos do indicate that the pilots are considerably younger than the pilots who were assigned to the first two PLAAF regiments of Su-27s in 1992 and 1996 and the first J-11 regiment in 2000.
Source
How many AA-12s does China have?
How many a/c that the PLAAF has actually have radars that can enable them to fire the AA-12?