What is the modern airplane does CHINA have on its arsenal?
China’s defense spending, like China’s economy, has been seeing double-digit growth for over a decade. That does not mean that China will be overtaking the US as a global military power anytime in the near future. There’s a lot more to being able to project military power across the globe than merely possessing a larger, or modernized army. China does, however, appear to be intent on projecting military might throughout the Far East – a subject of no small concern given China’s territorial disputes with Japan, Vietnam, and the Philipenes, not to mention Taiwan. Since the early 1990s, China’s air force has been undergoing a transformation from a 1960s era air-defense force, into a more versatile, multirole fighter force. At the center of this transformation have been two aircraft: the Su-27, supplied by Russia; and China’s indigenous J-10 fighter, which uses a Russian engine. The Su-27 (together with its multirole derivative, the Su-30) has been delivered both direct from Russian factor
