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2020 China will build a reputation of the world's most powerful active duty Air Force fighter 1 / 3 of the fourth generation machine

8 Monthly magazine , according to Air Force forces article claimed that the PLA Air Force has an army behind the growth of technology for the well-equipped and trained troops . 2020 when the People's Liberation Army Air Force will become a one of the world's top air force . People's Liberation Army fighters in the current equipment , the proportion of four generations of aircraft to a third .

2020 Air Force will become one of the world's top air force

U.S. Joint Chiefs of Staff General recently called attention to the main席麦克穆伦China's advanced " expedition , maritime and air capabilities " of "substantial investment. " He pointed out that this "clear statement of the territorial defense with the goal of Beijing is inconsistent . " Mullen table that China has a larger goal . June 19 , Asia Society , said its China between words and deeds of the " gap " a great result, other construction purposes from the Chinese military was "very curious to deep concern . "

In this regard, the article said that Mullen 's remarks was unusual , he rarely mentioned publicly the threat of growing Chinese power . In fact, stepping up military construction in China when some of Washington's response is still lukewarm , mainly because the second and more important " China gap " exists.

At this point , Mitchell, head of the Air Force Institute of Rebecca Grant explained that this gap is " clever strategy of China under the guidance of its own military capability and the steady pursuit of the gap between the U.S. defense strategy , the gap is clearly lower And minimize the U.S. Pacific demand for conventional deterrence . "

The article said that Grant is here referring to U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates on U.S. military capabilities of the re- positioning of military capabilities of conventional forces from deterrence to China in Iraq and Afghanistan and transferred to low- technology , unconventional war . It is noteworthy that Gates seems to think that the U.S. military still air, sea dominate the Pacific region .

Congress recently approved US-China Economic and Security Review Commission intense discussion this view. U.S. experts point out that the limited capacity of China's air force has become a regional power increasingly demobilized forces threaten U.S. interests .

Moreover, the Ohio Wright - Patterson Air Force Base in central China's national air and space intelligence chief,韦恩阿尔曼also believes that the strength of the PLA Air Force over the past decade has increased significantly. He said that the PLA Air Force has an army behind the growth of technology for the well-equipped and trained troops . He also added that , in accordance with the present course , "to 2020, China will become the world 's top air force one air force . "

Chinese Air Force fighters in about 1600 , nearly 500 is a fourth generation fighter . He pointed out that these fighters are technically with the U.S. F-15 and F-16 fighters comparable . Arman said if true, then to 2018 , China will have with the U.S. Air Force F-22 " Raptor " fighter to compete in the fifth-generation stealth fighter , than Gates himself estimated earlier time to a number of years .

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Rand Corporation analyst罗杰克里夫pointed out that China now can produce and the U.S. AMRAAM or the Russian-made AA-12 comparable to the super- horizon radar guided air to air missiles , and a large radar, television and satellite -guided Precision weapons . Even if the only modern hardware, not theory, advances in training and logistics , and not enough to increase military strength , but " China has made progress in these areas . "

US-China Economic and Security Review Committee warned that the PLA Air Force has to invest heavily in land-based air defense facilities , intended to weaken the U.S. Air Force against targets in China, any action . Since 2000, the PLA Air Force has purchased more of the Russian SA-20 anti-aircraft missiles . China has also begun to deploy comparable to the home-made SA-20 missile red -9 . Therefore , Arman said that in future wars , U.S. air force will face a " world's most advanced , most powerful air defense network . "

Rand engineers , analysts Jiefu Ha root (JeffHagen) also pointed out that the rapid development of China's ballistic missile force has been a major regional threat to the U.S. Air Force Air Force Base . He estimates that China now can Osan and Kunsan in Korea fired 480 missiles and 350 cruise missiles against Japan Kadena , Misawa and Yokota fired 80 missiles and 350 cruise missiles . At present, although China has been developed to Guam 's Andersen Air Force Base attack weapons system, but its existing range missiles can not reach that distance .

The article said the PLA modern aircraft, high-density air defense and strike capability of the Air Force base , coupled with its attacks on U.S. computer and space systems the ability to make the " blockade, " the Western Pacific , threatening the U.S. land-based and sea-based air Power . Faced with this situation , the United States International Assessment and Strategy Center of the Chinese air force expert Richard Fisher warned that , in fact , " if the United States issued a forceful response Bu , China will be the end of the air superiority the United States in Asia . "

The article points out , the United States may be in a U.S. air competitions and races, but only one China in the competition . In Grant 's assessment report , this casual attitude of the United States in recent years reflected many instances . She pointed out that the Obama administration to suspend a major F-22 project , only made 187 ; to prevent Japan from purchasing its own F-22; not launch a new long range bomber projects; delayed acquisition of the tanker ; limited missile defense system; not Right, network warfare efforts.

Although Gates always remind allies , the U.S. Air Force and Navy supplies far more than China, but has said Grant , said: " There is no basis for this calculation and can not constitute a U.S. Air Force and Navy forces will certainly force projection to the fact that the world . "But The article pointed out that the U.S. Defense Department challenge to Beijing is not entirely ignoring the facts , the truth has begun to expand its Pacific base net. U.S. Air Force and Navy are developing "air and maritime warfare "- designed to maximize the United States armed forces in the Pacific Ocean air- sea deployment of the joint military effectiveness .

In this regard, the article said , this situation is not very critical but not irreparable . The United States over China's 15 trillion economy can easily be appropriate to improve the military . Military plans in the development budget and the resolution a few months before , U.S. government leaders should take into account the fact that on . Mullen warned : "anti- intervention and regional Denial is not just our request for additional budget of popular words . These are the United States the ability to be actually pursued in the future by the military , we should be always borne in mind .