If I remember rightly the next chinese engine is in the very early phases of development now, this is purely from memory and I will check it later, But it will be based on a core known as CJ-2000, will have a two stage compressor and T/W ratio 10+. It is assumed that this will be the engine of the J-XX.

Who says china is going to offer the original design and the FC-104 prototype as seperate entitys, in fact wasnt the reason for the redesign due to design issues with the original prototypes?
China will only build the FC1-04 prototype but obviously you will be able to add features as money allows.
There is no way china will manufacture both the design of the original 3 prototypes and the FC104, I have a feeling this is another case of tphuang talking cr*p.

The chinese defense budget is to increase by some 14% this year, so you can expect these ‘exciting times’ to continue.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/asia-pacific/4773358.stm

The UK is still in the EU, becouse of the massive economic benefits that doing so brings, but they havnt joined the Euro or pushed for further intergration due to the current relative economic weakness of the euro zone, a desire to remain a free and independant country, and the fact that ignorant backward countrys refuse point blank to reform the EU budget to allow greater effort to go into R&D.

In fact the great Irony is that whilst the french seek to balme the UK the EU’s weaknesses it is they who refuse to reform the budget, so the EU is left spending 4 times the amount of money on farm subsidies as it does on R&D. If Iremeber rightly china spemds more on R&D than the Europe. So basically when certain european countrys stop living in the middle ages and wake up to the harsh reality of the 21st century, where it is not just the US they have to compete with, but also china, India and probably Russia in the next few decades, some improvement in the sitiuation might be made.

The European armed forces and governments are simply not sufficiently intergrated for this. If Europe wants a European armed force then alot of countryies are going to have to give up an awful lot, but its the only way a truly unified defence industry will work.

Do you have any proof that the J-10 has a PESA? Do you have anything to show that there are currently J-10’s fitted with TVC?
The AL-31FM1 deal was only sighned in thlatter half of last year, the engines are not likely to be delivered yet.
A further order for regular AL-31FNs was made after the original 54 deal. We have seen a picture of the last 100th J-10 and it did not have a TVC engine.

http://www.denel.co.za/Aerospace/Rooivalk.pdf

According to the above, one of the options for the Rooivalk is a pulse doppler radar. Does anybody know what radar this would be and where it would be mounted?

The Rooivalk looks like a chopper with real potential, its just a shame that there hasnt been a bigger order for it.

Russia is offering India the Mig-35 with 3D-TVC, AESA radar and a 6000hr airframe life, show me a chinese fighter that can match that now?
I will grant you that chinese avionics are improving rapidly, as is every part of the chinese aerospace industry, but it needs another decade to fully mature and get the technology currently being develope into service. For instance we have seen the compressor stage for the next gen fighter engine, the FC1-04 has advanced aerodynamic features but has yet to fly and is only a mid-sized aircraft. Once these things get brought together in a top line fighter (j-xx) then china will be on par with the rest of the world, although possibly not the US.