China's Airpower Will Equal the U.S. Air Force by 2030.
警告:中國的空中力量到2030年將等於美國空軍。
中國的人民解放軍空軍(PLAAF)將能夠在派出作戰飛機的數量,至2030年而且達到或超過美國的空軍,而美國軍隊仍將保持優勢,這兩個大國之間的技術差距.將現在和當時的顯著關閉。
本文作者憂心忡忡,因為中國空軍的戰略及戰術迅速崛起追上美國空軍,尤其甚者中國空軍J-20隱形戰鬥機,2017正式成軍服役,將在2020年形成有效打擊力,其巡航作戰半徑,可直達太平洋第一島鏈封鎖圈令美軍緊張?
其二中國空軍J-31A.J-31B.皆是於2020年左又成軍服役,尤其甚者J-31B,可能是中國自製型航空母艦首選艦載機.?
這樣一來配合中國第二艘自製核子動力航空母艦,其戰鬥力將可直接威脅到太平洋第二島鏈關島美軍基地,如此一來太平洋1/2的勢力範圍,勢在必行被中國刮分一半,這就應驗"習進平與歐巴瑪在2014年所講的話"太平洋夠大夠廣夠深絕對容納下中國與美國."
美國作夢也未曾想到中國空軍,有朝1日與其爭鋒在太平洋的空中一較高低.,西方軍事觀察家認為自2020年起,RIMPAC 環太平洋軍演,將邀請中國派出中國自製型航空母艦出席,屆時美國就會知曉中國海軍及空軍聯合作戰的實力,,再加上傳聞證實,中國第2艘自製核子動力航空母艦20160801已經開工建造,時間拉到2026年中國核子動力航空母艦下水試航,2027年正式交付海軍服役,其艦載機應該就是改良型J-.31B or J-31C.戰鬥轟炸機,.2030年環太平洋軍演,諸位讀者就會經由新聞畫面播出,中國核子動力航空母艦(北京號),在太平洋中與美國航空母艦戰鬥群演出,歷史性畫面場景,屆時足以應證2014年習老大說話是正確的存在.
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Warning: China's Airpower Will Equal the U.S. Air Force by 2030.
China’s People’s Liberation Army Air Force (PLAAF) will be able to match or exceed the United States Air Force in the number of fielded combat aircraft by 2030. Moreover, while American forces will still maintain an edge, the technological gap between the two great powers will have closed significantly between now and then.
Right now, the PLAAF is slightly larger in terms of personnel, however the U.S. Air Force has a “couple thousand more aircraft,” Gen. Mark Welsh, Air Force chief-of-staff, told the House Appropriations Committee’s subcommittee on defense on March 2. “At the rate they’re building, the models they’re fielding, by 2030 they will have fielded—they will have made up that 2,000 aircraft gap and they will be at least as big—if not bigger—than our air forces.”
But it’s not just sheer numbers, the PLAAF is rapidly fielding newer and much more capable aircraft. Some of those are completely new warplanes like the stealthy Chengdu J-20 and Shenyang J-31, while at least three more are upgraded versions of existing fighters like the J-11D and J-16 among others. Moreover, China continues to import advanced Russian-made fighters including the fearsome Sukhoi Su-35S Flanker-E.
“We are not keeping up with that kind of technology development,” Welsh said. “We are still in a position of—we will have the best technology in the battlespace especially if we can continue with our current big three modernization programs.”
Those modernization programs are the Boeing KC-46 tanker, Lockheed Martin F-35 Joint Strike Fighter and the Northrop Grumman B-21 Long Range Strike Bomber. However, even then America’s technological edge will not be the vast gulf the nation has grown accustomed to since the end of the Cold War.
China] will have a lot of technology that’s better than the stuff we’ve had before,” Welsh said. “And the Russians are doing the same thing.”
Unlike the Chinese, the Russians are much more focused on modernizing their nuclear forces. “They’re demonstrating capabilities that they haven’t demonstrated to us before—cruise missiles, some of their new aircraft are dropping weapons for the first time in conflict,” Welsh said. “We’re able to watch and see how this is working.”
Welsh warned that the Russian and Chinese air forces are dangerous and highly capable potential adversaries that have to be taken seriously. “They’re serious air forces and they’re serious about getting better,” Welsh said. “The Chinese in particular, clearly have a blueprint that is matching against our shortfalls. And I think that’s something, We have to consider as we look to the future.”