Now when it comes to the Chinese Air Force, many people are still very unconfident, thinking that the Chinese Air Force does not have large strategic bombers, large strategic transport aircraft, large tankers and other equipment, which cannot be compared with the world's air force powers.
At present, the Chinese Air Force has about 2500 military aircraft, of which 2000 are J-10, J-11 and other fighter models, and the remaining 500 military aircraft are mainly auxiliary models such as Y-20, Y-8, Air Police-500, and Air Police-2000. With the increasing number and quality of fighters of the Chinese Air Force, the Chinese Air Force has also made new breakthroughs in the use of advanced aviation technology and tactical tactics, in general, the comprehensive combat strength of the Chinese Air Force is second only to the United States and Russia, ranking third in the world, and it is more than enough to deal with countries such as India and Japan.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="15" > we will analyze in detail how strong the Chinese Air Force is now from the following three aspects. </h1>
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="14" > let's talk about fighters first. </h1>
"Seizing air supremacy" is still the most core task of the air forces of various countries, and fighters are the main force in seizing air supremacy. Looking at the local wars launched by the United States, we can see that when the United States launches a war, it is often not the US Army that enters the battlefield first, but the heavily armed US Air Force fighters, which rush to the forefront of the war and kick open the enemy's door. When they completely seized air supremacy, the U.S. Army began to enter the field to harvest corn. Therefore, the performance level of fighters has always been an important indicator of whether an air force is strong.
After the Chinese Air Force introduced the Su-27 production line from Russia, it had the ability to independently build modern fighters for the first time, and then the J-11A, J-11B, J-11BH, J-11BS, J-15, J-16, and J-16D, which together formed China's "Flanker Family"; at the same time, the Chinese also designed a J-10 fighter with independent intellectual property rights, and over the years has successively developed advanced derivatives such as J-10B and J-10C.
The J-10 and J-11, two light and heavy fighters, occupy half of the Chinese fighter family and jointly defend the safety of China's airspace. Of course, the Chinese Air Force did not stop like this, the birth of the "Galaxy Battleship" J-20 shocked the whole world, even the Americans had to feel afraid, and even scared them to want to restart the F-22 fighter production line;
It should be known that the "imaginary enemy" at the beginning of the J-20 design is the F-22, and the performance indicators are also designed on the basis of the F-22, that is to say, the J-20 is fully equipped with the technical performance to defeat the F-22, and it is natural to deal with the F-35, which is one lower than the F-22. In addition to the J-20, the emergence of the J-31 has also caused a sensation in the whole world, because there are only a few countries in the world that can independently develop two 5-generation stealth fighters, only China and the United States. As Li Wei, chief designer of the J-20, said, the development of Chinese fighters has entered the free world of independent design from following imitation.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="17" > then let's talk about bombers. </h1>
Although various missiles, rockets, and precision-guided bombs have matured, the role of bombers is still incomparable, especially strategic bombers like the Russian Tu-160 or the American B-2, which can complete strategic cruises, strategic deterrence or strategic strike missions with large transcontinental voyages.
Each takeoff of these two bombers would send their enemies inexplicably terrified. The current main bomber of the Chinese Air Force is the latest improved version of the H-6 H-6K, although it cannot complete the global strategic deterrence or strike mission, but it is still sufficient for countries close to China such as Japan and India.
Of course, we are now more and more aware of the importance of strategic bombers, so the rumors about the H-20 in recent times have been overwhelming, such news is by no means empty, after all, several important technologies related to strategic bombers, such as stealth paint technology, stealth flying wing configuration design technology, S-bending pipe intake and other China has made no small breakthrough.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="12" > Finally, let's take a look at auxiliary models such as tankers, transport aircraft, and early warning aircraft. </h1>
Although these models do not look very conspicuous, they are invariably multipliers of battlefield power. For example, large strategic transport aircraft can quickly drop heavy troops into front-line combat areas; large tankers are indispensable forces for long-distance raids of air combat clusters; and early warning aircraft are the indispensable core of modern air combat.
For the air force of a big country, the quantity and quality of these models can truly show their own heritage. There are undoubtedly great shortcomings in this regard of the Chinese Air Force, especially the lack of large transport aircraft and large tankers cannot support China's dream of forming a strategic air force. However, the Chinese Air Force is accelerating to make up for it, with the continuous service of the "Kunpeng" Y-20, the Chinese Air Force to form its own air strategic transport delivery fleet is no longer far away, and the Chinese Air Force can completely use the Y-20 basic platform to develop a series of derivative models such as tankers, early warning aircraft, reconnaissance aircraft, command aircraft, and electronic aircraft.
In addition, the development of the Chinese Air Force in recent years in the field of unmanned aerial vehicles is completely comparable to that of the US Air Force, such as the Attack-11, Undetectable-8 and other unmanned aerial vehicles are world-class existence. It has also made proud achievements in the fields of drone swarm technology, artificial intelligence technology, long-range air-to-air missiles, and large airborne phased array radar. As the American Rand Think Tank put it, "The speed of development of the Chinese Air Force is really too fast!" ”