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Originally Posted by RN7
To be honest the only progress that they have made over the past 20 years has been to replace the huge numbers of block obsolete aircraft they previously had, with relatively modest numbers of domestic designed aircraft and buy and license build smaller numbers of modern foreign (mainly Russian) aircraft and air defence systems. It has certainly improved China's air capabilities in many ways, and has also closed the technology gap with its major regional neighbours but it has hardly been revolutionary.
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One thing the Chinese Air Force has also done is greatly update the avionics on their older aircraft (as much as the base design allows), giving them more bang for the buck.