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The content of that article simply expounded of the much more expansive discussion the Airforce Secretary had on his recent visit and talk at CSIS.
PLAN and navy of SA will have a "anti-terror drill" on sea in Oct. in Zhanjiang, China.
据国防部网站消息，9月28日下午，国防部举行例行记者会，国防部新闻局局长、国防部新闻发言人吴谦大校发布信息。
根据国际军事合作计划及双方共识，中国和沙特阿拉伯将于10月在广东湛江举行“蓝剑-2023”海军特战联合训练。此次联训以海外海上反恐行动为课题，进行狙击战术、舟艇驾驶、直升机滑降、联合营救等课目演练。这是中沙两国海军第2次举行此类联训，旨在深化两军务实友好合作、提升部队实战化训练水平。
国防部：中沙（特阿拉伯）10月在湛江举行“蓝剑-2023“海军特战联训
据国防部网站消息，9月28日下午，国防部举行例行记者会，国防部新闻局局长、国防部新闻发言人吴谦大校发布信息。
根据国际军事合作计划及双方共识，中国和沙特阿拉伯将于10月在广东湛江举行“蓝剑-2023”海军特战联合训练。此次联训以海外海上反恐行动为课题，进行狙击战术、舟艇驾驶、直升机滑降、联合营救等课目演练。这是中沙两国海军第2次举行此类联训，旨在深化两军务实友好合作、提升部队实战化训练水平。
He says there aren't enough programs. He is wrong. The problem is most of the programs the US portrayed as "game changers" from the Cheney and Rumsfeld era where they were supposed to make a leapfrog in technology either turned out to be vapor like Future Combat Systems, where they spent $32 billion to get little in return, or abject failures like LCS or DD(X). The result is the US pretty much wasted the last 20 years developing weapon systems which were unfit for purpose. There are some notable exceptions like the Virginia submarine, or the F-35, even despite the warts, where the systems did enter serial production. But even in those cases there are issues, like the scandal with submarine steel on the Virginia which mean it cannot operate at the depth it was supposed to, or the many flaws of the F-35 which have led to low availability rates.
Then you have the F-22, an aircraft which at this rate might last less in service than the F-15 it was supposed to replace. They bought too few of them, did not upgrade them, and the bays are too small for a lot of payloads.
Now they proclaim they will solve these issues with yet another development program. Which will take a long time to get through and might also fail. The emphasis on highly complex "must have" technology like Adaptive Cycle Engines for the 6th gen, for example, could cause the US 6th gen fighter programs to fail. They could have developed a replacement for the F-22 with technology developed for the F-35. But they failed to do this.
This is not a "Chinese" specific mind. In the European company that I work for, we do the same. It is a widely used working process of operational perfection. Every year, there is an internal survey, after that everybody must work on listing problems from the result and making action plans regardless how high the satisfactory score they gave. Even if one is 100% satisfied with what he is doing or receiving, someone else will give a dissatisfaction score on him so he must act.
The "mind" is that there is always a problem to be found and worked on, there is never somebody, some organization without a problem, everybody must improve from oneself past, if one can not find a problem, others will find a problem for them.
It is an universal human management tactic. It is similar in spirite to the "everybody critisize everybody" tactic during the cultural revolution. And on this account there is no difference between the west and the east, Afro or Asian or Caucasian.
It is the civilised version of whip.
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Relevant for China. The current JASSM inventory is ~4000. In 8 years it will be around 10k. Shows why China is building so many AWACSes. They will be very useful for missile defense.
Expanded standoff missile production is de facto admission that the F-35 cannot penetrate Chinese IADS as it was envisioned to do.
JASSMs, especially the ER version launched en masses , is still a serious threat to the PLA, especially in a Taiwan or South China Sea contingency. Some kind of launchers capable of launching hundreds to autonomous HQ-17 type SR SAMs purely for cruise missile, drone, and loiter munitions (which Taiwan has a lot) interception will necessary to be deployed along China’s coast.
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