Are you certain of that totoro?. I’ve seen the reports from NASA of what’s in orbit….couple of 3 bird ELINT constellations and a smattering of strip-scan recce birds. We’ve seen a few different strategic-sized UAV designs but no indication of squadron strength deployment and no apparent rush to ramp up SATCOM bandwidth in theatre to support big UAV ops. Manned marpat types are being bought, but, again I’ve not seen big numbers talked about on order….and there’s still no publicly recognised Chinese SURTASS equivalent.

6yrs down the track from Pinkos debate above there doesn’t really seem to have been a huge advance in PLAN/PLANAF basin search/track capability?. At face value of course!