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Taiwan says Chinese warplane crashed in disputed South China Sea Intelligence chiefs tell legislature that a Y-8 anti-submarine vessel came down in the disputed waters earlier this month Beijing has not confirmed the reports but the briefing says the PLA launched search and rescue operations...

For India, that realisation has long been there- but the money hasn't. An indigenous aircraft was attempted before the LCA in the '60s also, but the Govt baulked at the high cost of developing an engine- https://www.militaryfactory.com/aircraft/detail.php?aircraft_id=366...

Very informative discussion, thank you! ARJ21-700 offers 41% range at 63% cost of ownership compared to E190-E2 which does not look so bad- but it must be the per flying km costs that are killing the ARJ21-700?

110 kN will happen much sooner. 7 years to first flight and another few years to certify it. They are being told to hurry up. If you saw the leaked GTRE webinar video- Dr G Satheesh Reddy had said every time he interacts with the govt (prolly RM or even PMO) he is asked about progress on the...

That's the best way to put it. The problem with the Chinese is they are both the judge and the jury. They sing their own praise & no one else does it. Rather than working collaboratively with the rest of the world- they rely on their own R & D, IP theft & ginormous amounts of money to solve any...

Yes that's exactly why it is hard to trust anything on this thread. Chinese dudes keep claiming progress based on speculative photographs, but there is nothing official about it at all, ever. No statement from the government as if they are ashamed or hiding something. Tweet has disappeared...

Best to the Indian scientists too! It's a race both countries could benefit from.

Again, why would the French-American company create a competitor, when all their customers are captive? Also please provide a credible link for your claim where it clearly states China has been given full transfer of tech to manufacture CFM56 otherwise I will have to file your assertion under...

You are telling me China has only one J-16?

https://www.businessinsider.in/international/news/how-china-is-trying-to-fix-the-biggest-problem-plaguing-its-fighter-jets/articleshow/83296206.cms Quoting from above.. This is the key take away.. .. all this is not to say the Chinese or Indians won't get there. But it should take...

As early as 2007, China had 3.4 million media outlets, including more than 4000 TV stations, 2000 radio stations, 2000 newspapers, approximately 10,000 periodicals and magazines and 3.31 million websites. & 0 articles critical of CCP or Emperor Xi. What does that tell you about the kind of...

CFM is a French-American company- why would they part with turbofan knowledge? Besides, the jump from civilian turbofan to military turbojet is pretty steep. Secondly, China has been blocked off from access to Western tech since Tiananmen- Western engines are physically beyond their reach. So...

:crazy: maybe if you go back and re-read my last post you will be dis-abused of your whole world against me notion. There is no need to ruffle your feathers. Who knows? Everything coming from you is pure hypothesis. No air force in the world wears out the others by flying. They fight it out...

Quit taking cheap potshots would you? India sold world-class generics (otherwise the US FDA would have booted us out long ago) using world-class APIs sourced from China at dirt cheap prices- there! Does that fix it? We'll see, we'll see of course. But looking at secrecy and lack of...

If you are talking specifically of pharma APIs then China did not win on quality but cost. Simple! Despite labour being cheaper in India- the other raw material, utilities, logsitics and financing are cheaper in China- undercutting India because of systemic efficiencies...

No, it's not as cut & dry as you make it out to be. China poached Indian talent to get to where it is today...

https://www.globalsecurity.org/military/world/china/ws19.htm it seems to be aimed at F414 level of performance, 9800kgf is about 96kN. The 414enhanced meanwhile promises 116kN afterburning thrust in ~4m length- that's the dream spec India hopes to achieve in a decade with foreign help. Are...

What's the current state of WS-19? When is it expected and what are it's dimensions?

It would be great if you could also capture the improvements going on from one engine to the next- otherwise what's the point of claiming a tectonic shift in Chinese jet engine tech by merely counting petals and saying it's new? What are the parameters of these engines like durability, MTBO...