The Rooosians would just make a more powerful radar and 20 times as many planes

It's my judgment this is about Taiwan and EXPORT, so they can both realistically threaten takeover, and DO IT, and then the big JUST IN CASE (American naval intervention in same) ...put it together with massive increases in surface to surface missiles in the Taiwan Straits, purchase of Russian Kilo subs and Amur subs, indigenous development of their own nuclear submarines, including ballistic missile subs, Song class subs trailing American carriers undetected ....

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Chinese Deploy Superior Avionics

August 17, 2007: China is touting the advanced electronics in their new J10A fighter. The J10A is using an Active Electronically Scanned Array (AESA) radar. AESA systems consist of thousands of tiny radars that make it possible to track many different targets simultaneously. China claims the J10A radar can track ten targets at once, and attack four of them simultaneously (with long range missiles). China has revealed other military AESA radars recently, indicating years of intense research and development in this area.

The J10 is also Chinese made. It looks something like the American F-16, and weighs about the same (19 tons). Like the F-16, and unlike the Su-27, the J10 has only one engine. Originally, the J10 used a Russian AL-31FN engine, but China has been working for a decade to manufacture their own version of this, the WS10A.

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