Air China. China Aviation
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Air China. China Aviation

Air China. China Aviation

                               

Air Force China on quantitative structure airplanes surpassed only by the Russian Air Force and the United States. Personnel in 2008 330 year totaled thous. People.

Armament consists of China's Air Force:

  • 4000 combat aircraft.
  • 300 utility aircraft.
  • More than 700 PU-Zour.
  • 106 helicopters.
  • 1000 anti-aircraft guns.
  • 450 radar stations.

 

The history of China Air Force

 

Created in China Air Force - 11.11.1949, after the Civil War. Significant support in their base played the USSR. In 50-ies on Chinese factories began assembling Soviet aircraft. "Cultural Revolution", the "Great Leap", and rupture of relations with the Soviet Union caused damage to the Chinese Air Force. However, it has stimulated the beginning of its own aircraft production in 1960-ies.

At the end of the Cold War, China has become a part of the Air Force to modernize and signed a contract for the purchase of Russia's multipurpose fighters Su-30, and also acquired a license for the production of the Su-27. A little later, the country has ceased to buy Russian-made combat aircraft and only began to produce its own impact on the basis of the acquired techniques of scientific research.

Chinese Air Force took part in the Korean War (1950-1953), which formed part of the Joint Air Force together with the North Korean air units.

Vietnam War (1965-1973) showed high professionalism of the Chinese military pilots who were shot down by a few drones and aircraft violated the country's airspace boundaries.

The Sino-Korean War (1979 g) of China Air Force almost were not involved.

The composition of the air forces of China includes:

  • Aviation:
    • bomber;
    • assault;
    • fighter;
    • intelligence;
    • military transport.
  • Anti-aircraft missile troops.
  • Flak.
  • Airborne troops.
  • Radio engineering troops.

 

Organization

Above all in the organizational structure is the General Staff of the People's Liberation Army Air Force Headquarters provides guidance and commander of the Air Force.

The seven military districts (Shenyang, Beijing, Lanzhou, Jinan, Nanjing, Guangzhou, Chengdu), there is one group of aviation, which is subordinate to the commander of the military district commander.

As part of the Aviation Military Districts are aviation divisions, individual air regiments and the aviation academy.

Aviation division - is the main tactical units, which consist of several air regiments.

Aviation regiments are the main tactical unit, consisting of several squadrons. In turn, each of the aviation squadrons consists of three flights. A link is three (in bomber aviation) or four aircraft (in attack and fighter aviation). Also shelves have a certain amount of support and training aircraft. Aviation Regiment can total 20-40 aircraft depending on the destination.

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Chinese airfield network - it's more airfields 400, 350 of which are paved runway.

They can accommodate about 9000 aircraft that 3 times the aircraft fleet of the country.

China is justly called the third superpower, because the republic has the fourth strategic nuclear potential missile systems in the world. Most of them are located in an artillery 2-m PRC housing.

Military strategists have long been used in its slang term "nuclear triad", which refers to the three major components of nuclear forces:

  • Land (rail, mining and mobile mobile) missile systems.
  • Cruise and ballistic missiles submarines.
  • Strategic aviation with aeroballistic or cruise missiles.

 

China owns all three components of this triad. However, strategic aviation is the weak side of the Chinese Air Force. The same problem is present in the British and French air forces, but since the territory of these states is relatively small, they do not need to invest capital in the development of strategic aviation. The Celestial Empire is an independent unit with a large territory, surrounded by enemy camps along with Russia. Counting on the cover from the Russian side, China also can not - in Russia and is already full of dangerous strategic directions.

The PRC was seriously concerned about the option of "fast full-scale non-nuclear strike" against the United States. Therefore, we concentrated all its efforts on the development of modern means of missile defense and air defense systems, the creation of a fifth generation stealth fighter and a large number of ships, aircraft carriers, which are required to deter attack in the case of the US penetration on the part of the Indian and Pacific Oceans.

There are rumors that China carried out to develop a new strategic bomber perspective, having a range of up to 7000 km (just such a range allows the application of missile strikes deep into the United States), and in appearance, this plane is very similar to the US B-2 Spirit.

It disseminates information about what China are being developed medium-range bomber. However, this is only speculation, made after the failure in January of 2013 36 China from supplying Russian Tu-22M3. The country has 120 bombers-missile medium-range H-6K and has a need only in subtle long-range bombers.

Aircraft N-6K - is quite a modern jet bomber, with a large arsenal of electronic reconnaissance, navigation and communication.

For the application of China's strategic aviation is in a very awkward geographical position: to Alaska - 5000 km, to the United States, the western shores - 8000 km. The path passes over the Pacific Ocean, where there is a lot of modern aircraft carriers of the US Navy with a powerful military arsenal.

If there is a global military conflict, missile carriers Air China can not just directly enter the starting point of the TFR missiles CJ-10A, since even halfway to intercept the ship's "Aegis" system and deck-based aircraft of the US Navy. The use of "Stealth" technology can also be ineffective, because the American Super Horner radar AN / APG-79 easily cope with detection of stealth aircraft.

Therefore, in order to penetrate the US air and missile defense system, it is necessary to build an airplane with fantastic action radius -. 10-12 thousand km, which is not able to do any of the countries of the world.

Presumably, in the case of a military conflict between the US and China, Russia also will take part in it on the side of China, clearing the sea approach to the US border. However, we should not forget that China - an independent state, and the Russian Federation can be occupied by operations in other areas, such as Europe.

Which of the combat aircraft is at the moment in China?

  • Medium-range bombers H-6K. They can not be attributed to the strategic delivery of cruise missiles, aircraft because speed does not exceed 1M.
  • Tu 200-16, produced on its territory of the Russian Federation under a license agreement. 120 were deeply modernized by complete their advanced economical turbofan engines D-30KP-2, the thrust of which is at 10780 kg each. It is possible to increase the maximum speed of the bomber to 1060 km / h and cruising - up to 780 km / h. Height practical ceiling at such speeds - 13000 m.

 New economical engines made it possible to equip Chinese aircraft with CJ-10A missiles with a range of 5,5-6 thousand km. That is, the maximum combat range of the H-6K with six suspended cruise missiles is only 6000 km. Russian aircraft (Tu-160 and Tu-95M), for comparison, have a combat range of 9-10 thousand km.

At the moment, China's strategic aviation is quite limited in geographical application, only reaches the shores of Australia, Alaska, Asia and Europe. Alas, a potential opponent in the form of a US missile for China's air force is out of reach.

Future project China strategic fighter, which is called N-20, the state should eliminate the backlog in this area.

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