well liked it or not, next century migth be ‘chinise’ century and even if the most optimistic forecasts fails, china is rising power whit constantly improving its influence over its neighbours and beyond. If there isent any power to protect today, there will be one in tomorrow.
And to support that growth china needs strong navy with great reach and ultimately there will be time that the PLAN cannot fullfill its task with out martime based airpower. Maybe not today but tommorow???
Then we all know that China needs to forge its carrier craft from the start. No one is coming to helping them and it takes propaly half a century to have substansial carrier fleet. Its almoust irrelevant which plane of the current catalogue will suite best in the some PLAN groupies fantasyes of some nankinj-payback mission, when PLAN is ready to be considered as true martime power, we are talking about 6th or 7th generation of fighters, not 4.5 or 5th.
But PLAN knows that it has lost too many deades in the carrier path and it should not waste any more time to commision its first carrier and start making mistakes whit it and eventually learn to how to use it properly.
The most suitable plane therefore would be either the one with best logistic support and training facilityes or the one most properly suited for basis of future operational carrier air group.
Any case the chinese carrier would be reality in next five years….thougth it would not be that sort of reality that the mentioned ‘chinese section’ would like to have, but I keep wonder why it is so hard to the equally annoying ‘US section’ (that has formed into every military forum minimizing others and overexaggerate themselves) realise the simple logic and strategical idea behind the current chinese carrier program????
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