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PLA Air Force news, pics and videos
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Why did you post this here? It's an RQ-180, like the source you linked pointed out.
In Russia.
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Golden Helmet 2021.
Can anyone identify this place? It doesn't look like an RCS facility, more like a park. I'm curious because there is what appears to be a ship superstructure placed there.
This is the CETC 29th Testing Facility, coordinates in the screenshot.
In this video，it says that while Chinese air force made big progress in hardwares. But the structure is very rigid，the army still dominates the military，air force is still an "auxiliary " unit mainly to cover the army in the event of conflict，rather than a truly independent division that has it's own doctrine. The training still leaves much to be desired，and joint coordination with air defence units is non-existence. What do you think of this video？How truth is there？
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An interesting video. Their expert seems rather open minded even if he cannot help but buy into all your standard western MSM boiler plate BS about combat experience, IP theft, canard cancels stealth (never mind Boeing 6th gen concept design has canards) etc.
While the bulk of his assessment seems somewhat reasonable, or are easily explained (the back seat ride in a flanker story for example, just because the PLAAF decided to only show them air refuelling during that specific demo flight doesn’t mean that’s the typical kind of sortie PLAAF pilots fly when they are trying) there are a few specific claims he made that I find frankly incredible so just wanted to sense check if there are actually any actual credibility to them.
The biggest one is his claim that Chinese SAMs and aircraft cannot operate together in the same theatre. Which just seems ridiculous.
The second is his assertion that Chinese AESAs like LPI/LPD modes. Which again seems rather ridiculous.
Has there been anything actually mentioned in Chinese reporting that might support these claims that I missed, or has he made the entry level noob error in assuming lack of reporting equals lack of capabilities?
While the bulk of his assessment seems somewhat reasonable, or are easily explained (the back seat ride in a flanker story for example, just because the PLAAF decided to only show them air refuelling during that specific demo flight doesn’t mean that’s the typical kind of sortie PLAAF pilots fly when they are trying) there are a few specific claims he made that I find frankly incredible so just wanted to sense check if there are actually any actual credibility to them.
The biggest one is his claim that Chinese SAMs and aircraft cannot operate together in the same theatre. Which just seems ridiculous.
The second is his assertion that Chinese AESAs like LPI/LPD modes. Which again seems rather ridiculous.
Has there been anything actually mentioned in Chinese reporting that might support these claims that I missed, or has he made the entry level noob error in assuming lack of reporting equals lack of capabilities?