The question is not a matter India has less skills, the question is Money, yeah that is the question, the military budget of China`s is much much larger than India`s. it is not a matter of India can not or can build technology, surely they can do it, but contrary of China they pump less money.

Independently of where the J-10 technology comes from, the LCA needs more money and foreign assistance in order to become a more viable program.

China has a lot more projects going on at the same time than India. Hey building new AAW DDG and new FFG, strategic nuke force with ICBM and new SSN, SSBN isn’t exactly cheap… China has its funds spread pretty thin here. Not to mention a whole lot more troops that need their salary paid…

Simply saying India has less money just doesn’t cut it. I’d be surprised if J-10 had much more funding comming its way than the LCA did.

That’s some bad chinese…

I can sort of make out some letters like (quan li) full strength, full attenton or (wan sui) long live, but there are so many unclear characters to prevent me from getting any uesful meaning out of it…

Delta III or Delta IV. It’s not Xia, the upper surface of the conning tower on Xia is sloped downwards at the rear.

And a much taller tower…

The J-11B raises an interesting question. With J-10 production looking like it is at about 5 a month (or 60 a year). And reports that WS-10A production is going to be 60 per annum which would suggest J-11B production at a rate of upto 30 a year as well as small numbers of JH-7A dribbling into the PLANAF, it is possibly reasonably safe to say that we can expect some 100 4th generation combat aircraft per year to enter the chinese armed forces, is there realy room for the FC-1? could this explain the seeming coolness of the PLAAF to the aircraft? Can the PLAAF actually absorb any more aircraft?

Ah but the Jh-7A is actually for the PLAAF… not the PLANAF.

So now the FC-1 question become very interesting since there are so many types for the PLAAF to choose from. Who knows they might just pass on the FC-1 completely…

i agree with fabe. If a government can’t afford care for its own people, then it has no business buying espensive toys like these. Bangladesh faces no strategic threats at all, and i for one would much rather see the nearly $1billion they spend each year on defence on health, education and disaster relief.

5 mil per plane is hardly expensive… if at all.
No other option come even close to what the J-7 is offered for.

Increase spend on health, education and disaster relief is generally a good thing but what do we know about the budget of a foreign country.

Now if Bangladesh can not afford to properly defend its air space or feed its people then buying Mi-17 for UN operations is as much of a waste of money.

Iran sounds more likely than Argentina. after all, they have strong maritime interests in the Persian Gulf and Caspian Sea

Plus…Iran already host the ASM that Jh-7 was designed to carry.

It would be a boost to Iran’s capabilities and lessen its reliance on the F-14…

Nice one. Is that HJT himself?

Kind of blurry… but I don’t think HJT is in the picture…

HJT always wear big ugly glasses…

Point and Shoot Camera are almost similar in quality. If you look carefully they mostly use the same lens on many different models. For similar price of only a few hundred dollars I wouldn’t expect too much difference between different brand or model. Point and shoot can never compare to the qualities of a SLR.

If your picture are not sharp, it could posssibly because of many reasons. Often of which it may be because you shook your hand when shooting. It is a common mistake for starters to hold out their hands, bend their knee and look through the LCD to frame the picture. You should learn to hold a camera properly. While holding a pint and shoot steadly but can be quite difficult given the small size and the weird shape of these point and shoot camera…but can be done with prectice and experimenting at home.

Generally, even in daylight you would like to have a steady hand when shooting and press the camera to your face for support. Looking through the view finder is still the best way to steady a camera unless you intend to use a tripod. Also make sure your fingers are not blocking the external sensors on the camera. Again given the small size of the point and shoot it is a common mistake. Generally I would only suggest using the LCD to check the pictures you’ve taken and not used to frame the pictures. That’s what the viewfinder is for!