
Originally Posted by
safeorigin
China isn't ready yet. Give it a year or two. Their military research is at blazing pace at the moment. Even faster than western counterparts. example: The SAC's "F-60" mockup went in public last year. Almost a year later(4 days ago), the actual prototype(J-31) is leaked.
You can tell, they're getting ready for an armsrace. The only field they are considered lagging behind is their domestic fighter engine. They still rely on older Soviet era turbines because Russia refused to sell them the relatively newer AL-41 knowing they'll just "copy" them much like how they "copied" the Su-30MKK and turned them into J-15. Of course, they got away with it by changing the panel cuts...
So far, China already has AESA radars installed in their J-11's years ago so I doubt they are technologically inferior.
Well, the Chinese doctrine relies heavily on redundant radars and SAMs. IIRC, they call it shashoujian or “assassin’s mace”.