The PLA air force planes are seen conducting training exercises, Nov. 19, 2017. The PLA air force recently conducted a combat air patrol in the South China Sea and conducted training exercises after passing over the Bashi Channel and Miyako Strait. (Xinhua/Chen Liang)
Forbes: China Has Doubled Its Fighter Jets On India’s Border
China has doubled its fighter jets on India’s disputed northern border, according to American analysts.
As of July 28, China has 36 aircraft and helicopters at the Hotan air base in China’s Xinjiang region, near the disputed northeastern Indian territory of Ladakh, according to an estimate by the U.S. Air Force’s China Aerospace Studies Institute (CASI). This includes 24 Russian-designed J-11 or J-16 Flanker fighters. In addition, there are now six older J-8 fighters, two Y-8G transports, two KJ-500 airborne early warning aircraft, two Mi-17 helicopters, plus a number of CH-4 strike/reconnaissance drones.
The People’s Liberation Army Air Force (PLAAF) had just 12 Flankers and no support aircraft at Hotan before the June border clashes between Chinese and Indian troops that left scores of soldiers dead on both sides. CASI’s estimate is based on open-source imagery from the European Space Agency’s Sentinel-2 Earth observation satellite.
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WNU Editor: Here is a good article that compares India's and China's airforce .... India vs China: Airpower compared (Air Force Technology).
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Mostly peaceful
Never forget
The Funny line in Douglas Adams's "Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy" was 'Mostly Harmless'.
The movie and the book are comedy. But there the phrase itself is very pointed in its irony.
This irony has been l lost on the liberal media, because they are committed soldiers on the cusp of victory or they are morons.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Douglas_Adams
China put itself in a corner. A "small" war with India will, no matter what, keep a lot of capacities for a long time and for what? Having a biggest problem with Taiwan and South China Sea is incompatible with a war against India.
Xi has proven to be so incompetent on the international stage, from how he handled the Wuhan virus, to the South China sea, that I wonder if he works for the CIA
Think of it
Under his rule China is now the most hated country in the world, at almost war with 10 of its neighbor's and will likely have to pay tens of trillions in reparations for the death and economic destruction their virus has and still continues to cause
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