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About the future chineese do ahve a good manufacturing base. and can produce a lot of aircrafts. maybe upto 40-50 a year if we consider different models.
But yes so can india .In case the M2K deal goes thru.
we have 14 MKI's per year.Indians decided to finish prodution by 2014 and thus 14 per year.
By 2008 some 10-15 LCA's
and some 15-20 M2K's(they would love to have al M2k's by 2010 ar at least 2014-5
so nearly similar production ..And we can bet the way indians churned out MKI from the russians to contain chineese advantage.They will make sure that they dont fall down in number of good aircrafts.
And yes just somethin i wanna know.. how good is Jaguar with the upgrades its getting esp wrt chineese aircrafts.
And definitely indains have an edge in
1. avionics as they choose the best amongst french indain israeli and russian.
2. PHALCONS
3. they get the technology from Rissians which even Russians dont have in their force.
4. Air fired version of Brahmos in line ..to be ready in 2-3 years time (shall be integrated with MKI)and shall be much better than what chineese have or will have in their arsenal by then.Its an edge as Brahmos is good against land targets as well because of its speed.
5. Joint development Fifth generation fighter with russians. I give it a better chance against teh Chineese JXX as russians already ahve technology demonstrators in the form of S37 and MIG1.42/44( whatever.)
6. Plans to develop ultra long range A2A missile jointly with Russians.(there are reports that they are thinking about it.).
7. Chineese do ahve an edge in Aerospace industry presently as many may believe. But our LCA is not bad either.At least it does use good technologies even in case it dsnt turn out very good.But joint development of fighter with russians shall revert the chineese supremacy in this too.
I understand that i dont know much about the chineese AF ..and would be glad if u all can improve/correct upon what all i mentioned.
Regards
Ajay
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