Evolution of the PLA in a continued Cold War

[Arjen]

@jsport A bare MSN will entice few to click on it.
Please provide summary to gain readers.

 

[Scott Kenny]

SinodefenseforumView attachment 760214

That rack makes the Lynx L look more like a Loitering Munition than a UAV.

Corruption may slow China’s ability to one day invade Taiwan, DOD says

But the Pentagon's annual report on China's military still tracked advances.

www.defensenews.com

China is significantly less corrupt than Russia. You still gotta play the game and pay off a few people, but you're not seeing people skim off 75% of the total budget like in Russia.

 

[Arjen]

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/tech...5f26fc52f344349dd0835532da1cadd&ei=13#details

I set unfurl to "false" in this reply after hitting the '[ ]' toggle BB code.
<edit> Title of linked video is "China’s Giant Drone Carrier: Power & Purpose Explained", video subject is Type 076 Sichuan class - click on link in quoted text above to view </edit>
jsport's original message only shows MSN as content, clicking on the link directs me to a video by someone on youtube called Binkov who is mostly connected to games-related content.
I have seen more replies that contain no more than a weblink hiding behind MSN as the only immediate visible content.
I find this extremely annoying.

 

[Antonio]

MSN

If it's possible, a brief description would be appreciated. ;-)

 

[Justo Miranda]

Am I the only guy here who isn't impressed by the dragon?

We are only suffering a wave of propaganda like the one suffered by France with the Luftwaffe, the West with Sputnik, Israel with the United Arab Republic of Nasser... Journalists have to pay bills. Any dictator can melt plowshares to make swords, and we all know what happens next. Wait and see.

 

[MrPhantomMan]

I would like to address some misconceptions from earlier in the topic. The Tiananmen Square massacre wasn't the lynchpin event that it's assumed to be. Chinese workers were allowed to return to work on the Peace Pearl project discreetly after the fact but at this point the Chinese had already decided to cancel the project due to rapidly escalating costs, mostly relating to the handmade nature of each aircraft needing a slightly different solution to the ones before it. There were a number of reasons for them moving towards Russian equipment:

-The PLAAF coming up against the US defence industry and quite naively thinking that The Price Is The Price when in fact, it never is and making the Peace Pearl project prohibitively expensive.
-Russia needing fast cash, now, meant they were willing to sell anything.
-"We like Americans but don't like the way their systems operate. We don't like the Russians but we know how their system work and like it." (Paraphrased)
-Israeli help in modernising and design meant it was an expensive and superfluous project.

There's more nuances but that's the broad strokes.

 

[Scott Kenny]

-"We like Americans but don't like the way their systems operate. We don't like the Russians but we know how their system work and like it." (Paraphrased)

That is not an unreasonable thing to do in the 1990s.

I'm not sure China had enough of an educational base to design their own stuff at that time. Crud, my Dad and Stepmom met on a teaching trip in China in 1988 (math and computer science) edit: ironically, they're both Americans!

 

[MrPhantomMan]

That is not an unreasonable thing to do in the 1990s.

I'm not sure China had enough of an educational base to design their own stuff at that time. Crud, my Dad and Stepmom met on a teaching trip in China in 1988 (math and computer science)

I don't think it's unreasonable, either. You're probably right about the educational base- unis were only reopened in the late 70s or so and there was a lot of purging and sending to the countryside before that of intellectuals and whatnot. You might make an argument there that there wasn't much lateral thinking because of that combo of Confucianism and Communism.