The rise of a great power: starting with military industry

The Chinese Air Force will only be equipped with one KJ-200, mainly for export.

The Chinese Air Force will only equip a small number of KJ-500s and will only export them to friendly countries.

KJ-600, China's only carrier-based early warning aircraft, will only be used by China itself and will not be exported to any country.

KJ-2000, a large early warning aircraft, is the main force of the Chinese Air Force's early warning aircraft. It is currently only used for domestic use and will not be exported.

Some things can be exported, but some things are not suitable for export.

Everyone has a tacit understanding on this point.

For example, mushroom bombs, intercontinental missiles, etc. are not suitable for export.

So far, Panshan Group has never exported the Aegis-3 and Aegis-4 long-range missile defense systems, and has not even deployed them overseas, let alone the latest Aegis-5 long-range missile defense system.

The international arms market seems to be booming, but in fact there are many unspoken rules. No one will talk about these unspoken rules, but they do exist.

This is a tacit understanding among everyone. Once someone breaks this tacit understanding, it will cause a chain reaction.

For example, no matter how good India’s relations with the United States and Russia are, it cannot import nuclear submarines and medium-range missiles.

For example, Cuba can only import short-range missiles, and their performance will not be very advanced.

For example, Saudi Arabia can have medium-range ballistic missiles, but it cannot have medium-range ballistic missiles with too advanced performance. Other Arab countries cannot buy medium-range ballistic missiles even if they have money.

For example, in Libya, Russia sold S300 air defense missile systems, MiG-29 fighter jets, Su-27 fighter jets, and Su-30 fighter jets to Libya, but Libya does not even have short-range ballistic missiles with a range of 500 kilometers.

Everyone has a tacit understanding with each other and they also communicate with each other privately.

As the three countries with the largest arms exporters in the world, each of them has its own fixed arms exporting countries and areas of competition. Although they compete, they will not act recklessly.

The United States exports arms mainly to NATO countries, Japan, South Korea, Australia, and then to some African countries and India.

Russia's arms exports are mainly to Eastern European countries, five Central Asian countries, African countries such as Libya, followed by major customer India, and some Latin American countries.

China's arms exports are mainly to Southeast Asia, South Asia, the Middle East, Africa, Latin America, and a few European countries.

American weapons are mainly advanced brands, and are exported to countries that are not short of money. It seems that American weapons are particularly advanced when mentioned, and even ordinary weapons can be sold at high prices.

Russian weapons are mainly practical and durable, and they may be devalued by Americans, but they often have unexpected effects on the battlefield.

Huaxia weapons are characterized by a super cost-effectiveness. They are the most advanced at the same price, the cheapest at the same performance, and have considerate service, full of sincerity, and the most reputable reputation. In addition, the export of US and Russian weapons will be accompanied by political conditions, economic conditions, etc., but Huaxia weapons are really just normal commodity trade without any additional conditions.

Even more, China will considerately provide a military construction plan and devote itself to building an army suitable for your country's national conditions. Liu Tao came to the Commercial Aircraft Research Institute.

The Commercial Aircraft Research Institute is the largest commercial aircraft research center in China. It has thousands of aircraft design technicians covering all areas of aircraft. For example, there is a special team that develops seats and continuously improves their comfort.

On the first floor, there is a "laser engraving" helicopter. Here are various commercial helicopters developed and divided into different application fields, such as medical rescue, short-distance transportation, emergency rescue, lifting equipment, geological exploration, forest fire fighting, aerial photography, etc., and then there are different tonnages.

On the second floor, there is a Y-13 model. The second floor is all about the improvement research of Y-13. Based on Y-13, the teams are divided into several research and development teams.

On the third floor, there is a Y-10 model, which represents the Y-10 research and development team that is constantly developing the Y-10.

On the fourth floor, there is a C919 model, representing the C919 research and development team. The design of C919 was mainly completed here.

After visiting the Commercial Aircraft Research Institute, Liu Tao went to the Military Aircraft Research Institute.

The Military Aircraft Research Institute has the highest level of confidentiality in the 011 Aviation Base and contains a large number of secrets.

It can be said that any project research is confidential.

The real data of any military aircraft is kept confidential, because only by keeping it confidential can the opponent be unable to develop weapons against it. Once the data is known and understood, there will be no secrets at all, and the effectiveness of the military aircraft will be greatly reduced.

Here, there are even teams to improve the J-7 and J-8. Even now, the relevant technical teams have not given up on improving the J-7 and J-8.

Various military helicopters and fighter jets are being developed here, as well as reconnaissance aircraft, electronic warfare aircraft, airborne early warning aircraft, aerial refueling aircraft, strategic transport aircraft, and strategic bombers.

This is still a human-powered one, and they are also developing drones.

A drone is an unmanned aircraft, which is an unmanned aircraft controlled by radio remote control equipment and self-contained program control devices. There is no cockpit on the aircraft, but it is equipped with autopilot, program control devices and other equipment. Personnel on the ground, on ships or at the mother aircraft remote control station use radar and other equipment to track, locate, remotely control, telemeter and digitally transmit it. It can take off like an ordinary aircraft under radio remote control or be launched into the air with a booster rocket, or it can be taken into the air by the mother aircraft for flight. When recovered, it can land automatically in the same way as an ordinary aircraft landing process, or it can be recovered by remote control with a parachute or intercepting net, and it can be used repeatedly many times.

Drones have always been one of the directions of aircraft development, especially in the military field.

Compared with manned aircraft, it has the advantages of small size, low cost, easy use, low requirements for the combat environment, and strong battlefield survivability. It is highly favored by the military forces of various countries in the world.

Drones have been involved in warfare for more than half a century so far!
The development of drones was very rapid after World War II.

China started its research on UAVs relatively early. As early as the late 20s, China began the process of independently developing UAVs. At that time, due to the Soviet Union's cancellation of aid and evacuation of experts, the Chinese Air Force was seriously short of La-50 unmanned target aircraft for testing, so China had to make up its mind to develop its own unmanned target aircraft, which led to the birth of the Changkong No. 17 (CK-1) high-speed unmanned target aircraft.

1966年12月6日，长空一号（CK-1）首飞成功。至1988年，长空一号及其系列改进型在华夏空空武器试验、核武器试验取样等任务中都发挥了重要作用。

In order to meet the needs of national defense construction and scientific research, the state issued a task in 1969 to develop a high-altitude unmanned photographic reconnaissance aircraft. The development work was undertaken by the Beijing Aviation College, which is the Wuzhen 5 UAV. From 1964 to 1970, my country shot down a total of 19 BQM-147 unmanned reconnaissance aircraft. The Beijing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics copied the American-made BQM-147H unmanned reconnaissance aircraft that were shot down, and copied the Wuzhen 5 UAV. (End of this chapter)