China Is In The Process Of Creating An Almost Impregnable Air Defence System

China’s Eyes in the Skies -- The Diplomat

The PLA is in the process of creating an almost impregnable air defence system for China. Washington should take note.

The recent deployment of China's first four indigenous KJ-2000 AWACS aircraft marks an important milestone in the PLA Air Force’s long march from being a ‘numbers intensive’ low technology force, to a much more modern high technology one.

More fundamentally, though, the AWACS (Airborne Warning and Control System) extends China's deep and broad network of air defence Command Control Communications Intelligence Surveillance Reconnaissance (C3ISR) systems into a key airborne area. In doing so, China is now acquiring the radar and passive early warning and air defence command, control and communications it needs to counter foreign fighters and cruise missiles.

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Update: China’s New Eyes in the Skies -- Defense Tech

My Comment: China has the technology, the people, the resources, the money .... and more importantly .... the will to implement a comprehensive air defense policy. But the big story is not China's evolving air defense strategy .... a strategy that will probably take a decade or two to implement (if not more) .... the big story is that China's air defense strategy encompasses a bigger strategy, which is to have a military that will not only match the U.S. and other countries in the region .... but to surpass it by the latter half of this century.