Posted on 05/19/2011 8:18:23 PM PDT by sukhoi-30mki
China successfully develops new-generation air-to-air missile
16:54, May 19, 2011
China has achieved what some foreign experts once thought was impossible — it has independently developed a next-generation air-to-air missile without assistance from foreign specialists or borrowed technology.
Designed by Fan Huitao, the deputy director of the Air-to-Air Missile Research Institute under the Aviation Industry Corporation of China, the missile, known as the "Key Model," successfully passed the designed type approval test and achieved an excellent result, with all seven missiles hitting their targets.
Its successful development indicates that China already fully possesses the ability to independently develop internationally-advanced air-to-air missiles. It is a historic breakthrough in China's air-to-air missile development and has met the Chinese Air Force's requirement for the model to be designed, produced, delivered and made combat effective within one year. The new missile offers the military and country another trump card.
The Key Model is an international-advanced AAM model. It is a secret weapon for gaining air superiority. It plays a crucial role in reinforcing the power of national defense and strengthening the influence of China.
However, it is very hard to develop and only a few developed countries around the world possess such a capability. The complicated system of the model and the high-grade, high-precision and advanced technologies needed to develop it has never been seen in the development of other models.
Foreign military experts once believed that employing foreign specialists as chief designers was the only way for China to succeed. Even some Chinese experts believed that the success rate of developing this kind of missile was not high when relying only on the current technical conditions of China. This was because China did not have any documents to refer to and could not use a shortcut.
The successful completion of the missile is the culmination of Fan Huitao's career in the aviation industry. After Fan graduated from Northwestern Poly-technical University with a major in aircraft engines in April 1986, he went to Luoyang and devoted himself to the field of air-to-air missiles.
In 2000, Fan took over as the chief model designer and began to lead a group in researching China's new-generation air-to-air missile.
By People's Daily Online
Horse Hockeys.
Technology was stolen.... or given by our traitor President.
The Russians still maintain a government mouthpiece called Pravda too........=.=
The Chinese are the biggest technology thieves on the planet.
It is possible that the nature of this species requires cyclical technological advance that ultimately result in more effective population control mechanism than previously manifest.
That’s not the point so much as the missiles negate our much vaunted technolgy lead. And with great foresight, we have terminated the F-22 with it’s BVR and low observable capabilities. We now have 187 survivable aircraft in our whole fleet.
I feel like we make it very easy for them.
Look at the Bin Laden thing.
Everyday they publish details publicly.
Imagine what a half assed industrial spy could accomplish in an environment like that.
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I am sure this bundle of technology was either stolen from us or sold to them by the Clinton administration. They don’t have the depth to have done this on their own.
While China still relies heavily on stealing, do not underestimate the amount of money that they have invested in hi-tech infrastructure over the past two decades.
Oh, I understand they are investing while our Gov is starving development here.
Their high-tech infrastructure merely facilitates their ability to exploit stolen technology that we paid to develop. They are doing it on the cheap, and they are doing it at our expense, make no mistake. Their last major original invention was gun powder.
If they are doing at America’s expense, that makes them smart and the rest of us dumb. Whether it is Stealing, inventing or improving existing systems, they are ruthless.
bttt
Wow. The Chinese must be very smart. At the rate they keep telling us they are producing fancy military hardware, they should be landing a Chinese guy on Mars in a week or two.
Giddyup! LoL
In other news, Kim-I-am-the-dullard-tweerp-ruler of North Korea again achieved a total score of 18 on an 18-hole golf course-—all holes-in-one. (no kidding, this was reported before).
I'd believe the golfing report before I would believe this.
Only way that could be achieved is if they shot the darned missile on a test bed bolted to the ground and on rails leading to the target. Highly unlikely that is was shot while airborne, and most certainly not against a maneuvering target.
On the missile, they have new firing circuitry.
Instead of all those complicated electronics, a political prisoner crawls out of the rear cockpit onto the wing at 600 kts, and lights the fuse with his knock-off version of a Bic lighter.
HAH. . .you have me laughing at that visual. . .
(Please note for the China sympathizers out there, I am not laughing at the political prisoner part, that is darned serious, just the idea of it all).
Wake up America.
This is the logical, inevitable course of “free trade”.
We are creating the nation which will next challenge America. Every single day, the problem grows.
Yet we look away.
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