Something to add on. Wing Loong UAV sell well is becos it did very well during trial test on foreign soil compare to a number of peer competitor. A bait target was set and many other competitor armed UAV were not able to destroy the mobile target while Wing Loong able to killed the bait and impressed the host country.
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Something to add on. Wing Loong UAV sell well is becos it did very well during trial test on foreign soil compare to a number of peer competitor. A bait target was set and many other competitor armed UAV were not able to destroy the mobile target while Wing Loong able to killed the bait and impressed the host country.
broadsword
Brigadier
It is an extract from the mouth of AVIC chairman during the Chinese interview. That's all he mention. And he mention Wing loong sell well in countries involved fighting terrorism.
AssassinsMace
Lieutenant General
Interesting idea I also had some time ago or a fact I wondered about: Why were there so far no real one-off X-types like the X-29, X-31 or so ??
All so far known experimental types like the JJ-6, J-7 and J-8 tesbeds are more or less simply modified serial aircraft or former prototypes.
So what about a single experimental prototype of a twin-engined J-10, a JH-7 with AL-31FN or WS-10 .... ??? Even if surely just some nice what-if-ideas, IMO such projects would give a great push to the Chinese aviation industry.
Just an idea,
Deino
funding!
no funding!
a small scale X plane size of X-36 could cost anywhere from 2-30 million to hundreds of million. who is footing the bill? not where they can't even pay competitive wages for most of their employees.
The current chairman of AVIC may be a bumbling fool but under him AVIC made alot of money in realestate. now they are flushed with some cash. some what. and you can see they are funding their own X planes. (J-31 )
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Lol.
This guy has very bad reputation among the Chinese military enthusiasts.
He's a businessman first, a bureaucrat second, and then the in-charge of Chinese Aviation Industry.
I've watched the interview, half of the time he's talking about how to use funds to invest, such as in the booming property market, to make more money, and one quarter of the time he's talking about how to ask the higher authority to give him more power to manipulate those funds.
He's not a technology-savvy guy and he even admitted he didn't know the setting up of ADIZ beforehand.
Take his words with a grain of salt, as he's business-driven and money-driven, he needs to boast whenever he can to sell more. He's more like a professional manager to manage AVIC's funds and money and try to figure out how to earn more money by investing and selling his products, etc etc. If you understand Chinese you'll see that he first labels him as a businessman than anything else, and openly claims his top priority goal is to earn money.
Not a bad thing, AVIC certainly needs money, but that to me, certainly affects his credibility in terms of real technologies.
I'll have much more faith in words from those really fighting in the frontier to battle those odds and difficulties to make Chinese fighters better, than someone like him whom to me is nothing more than just another bureaucratic businessman.
Southern Chinese is never known to be well known when comes to engineering.
If we're going to degrade ourselves to spew out stereotypes, then perhaps you should know that China as a whole is not well-known for quality engineering. The stereotypical pro engineers of the world are Germans.
Stereotypes aside, China, EVERY portion of it, is home to many talented and gifted engineers that together are responsible for the fastest modernisation/industrialisation in history. I suggest you keep your unwarranted and obnoxious disparaging remarks away from this forum.
The evidence shows quite contrary.
consider that...
from 1955-2011, of all past and present members China Academy of Sciences
the top 5 provincial origins are .
Jiangsu, Zhejiang, Fujian, Guangdong, Hunan. all these provinces are consider southern china.
Jiangsu and Zhejiang each produced about 200+ members.
Shanghai, the city that never broke 10 million size mark until 90s, has 41. more than Liaoning the industry power house which produced a paltry 17...
same thing on China Academy of engineering.
Top two again are Jiangsu and Zhejiang.