Engine Trouble: The 1 Thing Holding Back China’s New Warplanes

https://nationalinterest.org/ ^ | November 21, 2020 | by David Axe

[RomanSoldier19]

Beijing has succeeded in copying and stealing their way foward, but they have hit a snag.

[jdsteel]

Biden will help them with that...if he gets in the White House.

[Red Badger]

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[FreedomNotSafety]

Technology transfer coming in... just after the inauguration. Remember how the Clinton administration managed to forget to lock the back door and the Chicoms to steal our nuke secrets? Same playbook.

[Spirochete]

... Chinese industry still is struggling to manufacture arguably the most important subsystems for these new planes. Their engines.

They'll have all the technical assistance they want if Biden is sworn in.

[Steely Tom]

A lot of gas turbine development for aviation applications goes on at Shanghai Jiao Tung University, which is modeled after MIT. Jiao Tung University has its old campus in Shanghai; I’ve visited it and seen its AI department; at least as much as they allowed me to enter.

Jiao Tung University has a “new” campus that is well outside Shanghai; foreigners are not allowed to visit it, although a large three-dimensional model of its campus is displayed at the downtown campus. It is very big, similar in size to a land-grant university in the United States.

[tired&retired]

Isn’t that why they had Hunter Biden try to buy the USA company with better engine technology?

[notaliberal]

Where’s Hunter?

[Still Thinking]

Ran out of rubber bands?

[llevrok]

Where he once was an oil industry expert, Hunter Biden is now on the board of China’s major military aviation manufacturer.

[M Kehoe]

Chairman Xi, those damn blades spin so fast, under much heat and pressure. The titanium milling is not going well, and two of our spies were busted in Houston last year.

Dear chairman, give us another trillion Yuan and 24 months and we will bury the Yankees.

Chairman? Chairman Xi?

Boom!

5.56mm

[Flick Lives]

Chinese warplanes flying with older engine models, including imported Russian motors

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Russian engines. Chinese airframes. What could go wrong.

[PIF]

But for all of these advancements, Chinese industry still is struggling to manufacture arguably the most important subsystems for these new planes: engines crystalline turbine blades.

[volunbeer]

The Clinton’s made our adversaries submarines more silent in one deal - overnight.

Unforgivable.

[Red Badger]

And satellites orbital....Don’t forget that one,either.........................

[TexasM1A]

I guess they just need to steal the right technical information, because they damn sure aren’t going to be able to create it on their own.

[Harpotoo]

What else is new?

[SteveH]

either they copy the exact parts needed, or they need to run the redesigned parts with expensive proprietary simulation software packages with correctly chosen algorithms and input data.

[Mariner]

It’s a cultural problem.

The concept of “quality” has never been in their cultural DNA.

One makes more money by screwing one’s customer with poor quality products.

It’s throughout their supply chain.

[Vermont Lt]

Yeah, but they make a million of them. Some of them might even fly twice.

Maintenance must be a bitch on those things.