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Tango01  | 01 Mar 2017 11:48 a.m. PST |
…weapons.
"A peek at the arsenal at an arms fair in Dubai…"
See here
link Amicalement
Armand |
| JMcCarroll | 01 Mar 2017 2:13 p.m. PST |
" The International Institute for Strategic Studies (IISS) recently came out with report that China is "near parity" with western nations in terms of indigenous defense technology. " Helps when you reverse engineer everything. |
| Pythagoras | 01 Mar 2017 5:43 p.m. PST |
…but still unlikely to be able to innovate the next gen defense. |
| Lion in the Stars | 01 Mar 2017 6:15 p.m. PST |
Still lacks the QA/QC that Western-built equipment has, though. For that matter, China can't even reverse-engineer Russian jet engines yet. American jets run at least 1000 hours (technically 6000 cycles from idle to full power) between overhauls, Russian engines last 350-500 hours, and Chinese copies of Russian engines last 35 hours. Plus the Chinese engines take far longer to spool up. |
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