I doubt you’ll ever see a Chinese mod here. Ironic to see who’s more open since in one Chinese military forum is open to non-Chinese mods. They have a poster from Finland who’s pro-India/anti-China (he won’t like that especially since I’ve seen him in this forum) and he became a mod.

Soc is one of us. Proof is he is attacked by as many anti-Chinese folks as I’ve been for being “pro” China.

BTW, some of the very best analysts and posters on the Chinese military in the English-based web are not Chinese. We have several of them here, Arthur “Hu Peng” Hubers, first and foremost among them. Rick Kamer who has the most exhaustive list of PLAAF and PLANAF squadrons and air regiments anywhere is another.

The person who probably contributed most to this thread — now in its 9th extension — as well as the PLAN and PLA threads in the army and naval subforums is not Chinese. Hyperwarp is too modest to say he knows as much about the Chinese military as any of us here but he obviously does.

So having a Chinese mod is not entirely critical if those who are mods are fair enough to allow the posters (of any nationality) who are genuinely interested in Chinese aviation to post in threads like this without interruption.

So in that note lets get back to the subjects of news, speculation and pictures instead of mods 🙂

You’d think if they liked the Blackhawks so much they put in the effort to make a decent copy of it.

It is ALWAYS far easier to license build than to reverse engineer. They’ve European licenses for the Dauphin and Super Frelon (and the new Z-11 and Medium helo.) There is simply too many licensed projects around to attempt to reverse engineer the Blackhawk.

If it is so wonderful you’d think they’d want to be able to keep them flying, (Like the Iranians have with the F-14s) and perhaps be even able to add new airframes to their own fleet.

The Blackhawks are kept flying, Garry. They’re actually been overused in some of China’s roughest environs like Tibet.

In fact, a Y-8 variant was designed and produced just to cart the Blackhawks around the country.

True, lots of J-10 news in the giant PLAAF news and pictures threads.

But in short, just to humor the dude, there are at least 50 J-10s in two squadrons (discounting the CTFE test unit) and the original plane is successful enough that they went and built a two-seater which is also reaching production.

Interesting that in a thread about two non chinese nationals (one french and one taiwanese) wanting to make some money by exporting some american military material to mainland china turns into sferrin accusation time again.

Wen Ho Lee was also Taiwanese. The truth is every weapon sold to Taiwan ends up in China in some way or form.

Anyway, these two guys in the article…did they honestly think they’d be able to just buy a cruise missile? Personally, China’s a nice fat market. I’d say, go ahead and start exporting jet engines and the like.

You hit the nail on the head, Sean. Seriously, what chances are there for a real war between China and the US if it weren’t for Taiwan? And the Taiwanese are the ones spying on nuclear laboratories and exporting weapons to China.

There really is no chance of war between the US and China unless the US is involved in another colonialization drive in Asia.

BTW, the Blackhawks are very good and China prefers Western helos (as in pretty much everything if there were no embargo.) All of China’s helicopter projects — Z-8, Z-9, Z-10, Z-11 — are European-based.