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Monday, October 22, 2012
China's defence aviation industry: searching for innovation
Over the past decade, China's military-aviation industry has been gradually transforming its defence, science, technology, and innovation capabilities, and narrowing the once-wide technological gaps with advanced aviation powers.
In the fighter aircraft arena alone, it has been developing, testing, and producing a diverse portfolio of new designs - updating and modernising its 'legacy fighters, developing indigenous modern 'fourth-generation' fighters, and preparing to break into the 'fifth-generation' aircraft market.
The recent unveiling of China's next generation fighter aircraft prototypes - the J-20 and J-21 - along with accelerated modernisation of the Chengdu J-10 and Shenyang J-11 fleets, shows not only the increased sophistication of Chinese combat aircraft, but more importantly, the ongoing transformation of China's military-aviation sector.
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