Chinese Aviation Industry

asif iqbal said:

interesting, which country took delivery of F-7BGI? no JF-17 but still F-7?? whats going on i must have missed that which engine does F7BGI use?

Click to expand...

Hyperwarp said:

Bangladesh -

Please, Log in or Register to view URLs content!

according to Hui Tong upgrade include 3 MFDs. I've heard rumors that it may carry the KLJ-6F instead of the KLJ-6E

Click to expand...

asif iqbal said:

Thanks suprising, a loss for JF-17 market that is, i wonder what was the reason for not going for the Thunder makes no sense to me

Click to expand...

kwaigonegin said:

My guess would be $$ and Bangladesh is not exactly a rich country.

Click to expand...

By most standards, Bangladesh looks like a disaster. It was the original “basket case” (Henry Kissinger’s dismissive term) and remains a poor country; it has only half India’s income per head. Until recently, its economic growth was paltry. City states apart, it is the world’s most densely populated country, with around 150m people crammed onto the delta of the Ganges and the Brahmaputra, an area regularly swept by devastating floods. Its private sector is weak and its government widely perceived as corrupt and dysfunctional.

And yet Bangladesh has done better than most countries at improving the basic standard of living of its people. Bangladeshis can expect to live four years longer than Indians even though they are much poorer. The country has achieved some of the largest reductions in early deaths of infants, children and women in childbirth ever seen anywhere.

So that is the puzzle: Bangladesh combines economic disappointment with social progress. The Economist suggests four factors to explain why.

First, Bangladesh has done more than most countries to improve the status of women. This was partly deliberate policy (the country invented microcredit and these tiny loans were targeted at women). And it was partly an unintended consequence of other things. Because the country was so crowded and poor, its founders decided after independence to embark on a big family-planning programme. This reduced fertility but also raised the status of women within the household since it was they who now controlled the size of the family. The textile industry later took off in Bangladesh, and 80% of the workers are women. So women’s status and income both improved. Women are much more likely than men to spend money on their family’s health, education and meals, so child welfare rose.

Second, Bangladesh has been unusually good at boosting incomes in the country—and since the deepest poverty in developing countries tends to be rural, this has helped the very poorest. The mechanisms here were the Green Revolution, which meant the country could grow two crops a year, and remittances (around 6m Bangladeshis work abroad, mostly in the Gulf).

Third, the government deserves credit for maintaining basic social spending. Indeed, it has kept up a consensus in favour of this despite several military coups and bitter political infighting between the two main parties.

But public spending would probably have been wasted and frittered away (as it has happened so often elsewhere) were it not for the fourth factor, which The Economist calls the magic ingredient in the mix: large non-government organisations which have managed to scale up their programmes to work nationwide without losing the idealism of their early days, when they were small and beautiful.

The briefing goes into a lot more details on each of these. The accompanying editorial tackles a question naturally raised by the story: if Bangladesh’s social achievements have been greater than its economic ones, does that mean economic growth is pointless?

The editorial says no. True, Bangladesh shows you do not need to wait for lots of growth. But it might have done even better had its economy grown faster. Growth either made only a modest contribution to the factors that mattered most (such as the internal workings of NGOs or the family-planning programme, which people wanted anyway). Or it would have helped them along more (for example, the adoption of Green Revolution seeds or microloans). There were no strong trade-offs.

Click to expand...

Blackstone said:

It's true Bangladesh is a poor country, but it's a weaving a social-economic success story, and has a chance to be a South Asian 'Tiger.' The government spends more on social/gender development and public goods by choice, so its military has fewer toys to play with.

Please, Log in or Register to view URLs content!

Click to expand...

AssassinsMace said:

Does this Israeli Defence site have any credibility?

Please, Log in or Register to view URLs content!

China's New Stealth Aircraft

China's aviation industries are working extra hours on producing stealth aircraft. The J-20 and J-31 aircraft are in development and the J-23 and J-25 have been already participating in military exercises, as part of the country's preparations to take the hold of the Pacific from the US
Ami Rojkes Dombe
24/12/2013

Please, Log in or Register to view URLs content!

Illustration of China's fighter stealth aircraft - the J-25
The J-20 and J-31, China's two new stealth aircraft, are still in development. However, secrets about the two other 5th generation aircraft, J-23 and J-25, were exposed on the Chinese Army website, as reported reports on the news portal "Qianzhan".

The fighter aircraft J-23, designed by the Shenyang Aviation Corporation, is not longer based on Russian technology, the report said. Shenyang airline chose instead to base the J-23 on the F-22 Raptor of the United States, so it will provide the Air Force or the Chinese Navy a better chance to fight a potential conflict with American planes.

According to leaked information, the J-23 has a longer body and two V-shaped vertical tails that look very similar to those used in the F-22. If China could achieve the 117S thrust vector engine from Russia, the maneuver ability of the J-23 will also be improved, the report claimed.

It also said that the J-25, China's 4th generation stealth aircraft designed by Chengdu Aviation Corporation, is able to shoot down the F-22 a few seconds. The plane, which was given the name "Ghost Bird", is considered one of the best stealth aircraft around the world due to the 3D printing technology of China. Analysts say that the main task of the J-25 is to challenge the dominance of the United States and its allies in the airspace over the Pacific, the future environment of Chinese aircraft carriers.

Click to expand...