Hendrik_2000
Lieutenant General
Regarding the WJ-6 engine that powers the AG600, it is a copy license of the Russian Ivchenko AI-20 engine developed in the 1950s. Even for 1950s technology China still copies Russia. China has been importing from Russia for 70 years. When China no longer needs to import military equipment from Russia, then I will start to pay attention when keyboard Chinese nationalists start beating their chests and boasting about "having more R&D than the entire developed world." This is like talking about acing the PhD dissertation defense when you have not even graduated from middle school yet. Graduate from middle school first, then we can talk about University.
You cannot copy engine by using CTRL-C like in your computer You need advance science and technology to do that Compare India to China India has all the help they can muster developing kaveri engine From Soviet Union, French, US, etc yet they failed to develop kaveri and officially abandoned. Yet even though China was technically embargoed she is succeeded in developing WS 10 and it is now maturing with most of Chinese jet J11, J16, even J10 now using WS 10.
As to why china copy engine well you don't have to reinvent the wheel copying is cost efficient since China does not have to invest in long period of design and debugging of new engine during the 80's when her military budget is only 200 billion dollars
China has not imported Russian engine since late in since 2011 We are sure about that since Russia will trumpeted their success.
There is no shame in copying technology every country does it US get free GT technology from britain when she transferred the design of NENE engine to GE out of gratefulness for US support.
US use operation "paper clip" to copy German rocket technology by moving wholesale all German rocket scientist to us The same with Soviet Union. At least Chinese use their own people to copy west technology.
In military technology China is now self-sufficient and does not need anybody and even ahead when it comes to Hypersonic missile, UAV, EM gun, ship building, Radar etc.
You and western MSM make a faulty comparison You should compare China to India and not to US since they have the same starting point
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