Yeah, because the damage was more serious than reported.

Now I’m all confused about the designations. The last I heard, the KJ-200 was the Y-8 Rotodome AEW version. By the pictures of the crash everyone is saying they’re seeing the balance beam. The news sources are saying it’s the big Chinese IL/A-50 version, KJ-2000.

Definitely a very good idea from the Korean point of view. With the Liberation Army dictatorship next door gaining in military and economic might, one wonders what the future holds as I have elucidated in the currently last post of the “Russian Air Force in Deep Crisis thread.” It pays to be ready for any eventuality. My best wishes towards early completion of the project.

Regards

Sorry to tell you this, but this is more about Japan. Japan is making more unilateral moves to claim and occupy disputed territories it has with China and the two Koreas. China, on the other hand, is signing joint ventures with other countries on islands that are disputed. You don’t hear a peep from China about South Korea’s high-tech military buildup in recent years. Afterall the two have a mutual economic relationship.

I predict that with all the paranoid attention over China you guys have, South Korea will go unnoticed and become a more dynamic prosperous nation than Japan has ever been which will spur ultra-nationalism in Japan and cause a huge headache for the US. Now a strong South Korea against Japan is a good thing.

I would’ve posted this earlier in response to SOC but the forum had some problem.

1) It’s no nukes first… period!

2) Because Americans (politicians, media, and the population) says China is the worst country in the world and all the excuses that were used for attacking Iraq can be said of China as well. Just look at the news today. There’s a lot of “China Threat” news. A lot fear about China in Africa and South America as if the Cold War were on again.

3) The Iraq casualty numbers for the US are low for a war yet Americans complain about the “high” losses and more over get angry when the insurgents have the occasional success that kills a lot of US soldiers. It’s called “war.” That’s what happens in a war. Complaining and whining about what tactics the insurgency commits to is not going to get them to change a successful tactic that is turning Americans off from the war. C’mon, we all know Americans think their lives are worth a hundred times more than anyone else. So when one is killed, it’s equivalent to a hundred Americans being killed in the American mentality.

4) Who ever sinks the first modern American carrier will be huge blow to the egos of Americans. Just like losing in Vietnam was a huge morale blow that affected Americans for a long time.

5) Just like I stated before, Americans say China is the worst country in the world. American hypocrisy of its own China policy just creates more anger in Americans towards China. Americans aren’t going to blame themselves for buying products that aren’t Chinese but labored out to China by American and other foreign corporations which makes up the vast majority of the trade deficit. That’s like saying a Detroit autoworker owns and profits from the vehicle he or she makes when sold. Unfair trade? Unfair trade is when Americans complain about China not buying American when China is only allowed to buy American products that the Chinese can make for themselves and at a lesser cost. What China wants to buy from the US won’t be sold at all or will be put under scrutiny because it falls under dual-use with possible military applications. By the time the greenlight is given, if ever, another foreign supplier is found. To understand the scope of what high-tech products can be put under dual-use scrutiny: the most advanced nuclear weapon, the W-88, was design on an Apple IIe. Look at the IBM computer hardware deal to Lenova that sounded alarm bells in the US. So American politicians and media spin it to look like China won’t buy American when in actuality the US won’t let them. China is going to build 40 nuclear reactors in the next 20 years. The American nuclear industry wants to sell them the reactors. Then there’s the paranoid faction that are afraid that China will use them and learn to make plutonium for nuclear weapons, a technology and skill China already possesses.

6) It can be argued that the US doesn’t attack North Korea because it has what… a few nuclear weapons? The US is confident that it’ll take out China’s nuclear capability but not North Korea’s? Whichs also argues my point that the US can’t take casualties no matter how much of a US nuclear counterstrike afterwards. And that’s why Iran is bragging about the ability to produce nuclear weapons.

Well China has a no first nuke policy unlike the US. So if China did, the US certainly would’ve used nukes already. In a war with China, the US will most likely use nukes from the very beginning simply to save as many Americans lives as possible. The same excuse used on Japan during WWII. If the US is making excuses to use nukes first on Iran, it’ll use them first on China. No doubt.

Got this from CDF.

China-made “UFO” to debut
Vertical maneuver, suspension in air and unmanned flight, the words used to describe “UFOs” in science fiction films, will become true in reality. News from the School of Earth and Space Sciences of Beijing University says a virtual system of stratospheric solar aerospace flight system has been developed with Chinese independent IPR and is applying for a national patent.

The system looks like a pentacle and can maneuver automatically in the air.

According to Prof. Yan Lei with the School, the system is powered by solar cell. It adopts bearingless motor propeller to realize silent flight, vertical maneuver, long-time suspension in air. It can realize self-control and ground control. Capable of carry arms, it can attack and defend itself.

By People’s Daily Online

PLAN ships.