How China Built their Air Force from 'borrowed' Foreign Tech

In this video we explore China's long history of ripping off foreign tech to develop their own aircraft. Both with and without permission of those foreign countries to do so.

In this video we rank all of the operational Chinese fighter jets in the Chinese Air Force. The J-7, JH-7, J-8, J-10, J-11, J-15, J-16 and J-20.

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[xiaogangdasha]

Interesting video, no bias. Support from 🇨🇳👍

[aluminium]

it's not knockoffs and in fact, i think china's pretty smart with borrowing foreign designs and putting it in their own planes because why take the time to develop your own design when an already proven design that u can just borrow in a fraction of the time needed to make an indigenous design

[junyutan]

The jh7 looks more like the sepecat jaguar imo

[LodewijkVrije]

50 j-20's

even 3 months ago estimated numbers were much higher.

and now with Zuhai 2022 over, its confirmed that over 200 J-20's have been produced. at least 208 airframes have been built if the production numbers are still counted as accurate information.

as for the whole part about the Su-57 it depends on how you look at it in terms of which program being older. i think they are about the same age. but the J-20 uses the Mig-1.44 design (yes really, just look at some pictures on google) blended with their own J-9V-b (which was a tailless delta wing design) meanwhile the Su-57 seems to be a blend between what Sukhoi and Mig initially entered for the design contract.

also there are at least 11 flying Su-57's

2 delivered on Christmas day 2020, 2 delivered in april 2021, 2 delivered in december 2021, 6 prototypes were converted to "production standard" which is something the Russians do. 1 of those crashed.

[angelotero]

Hey Austin! It's been a while since I've been occupied with school. I commented on your last video regarding the top gun Maverick review I believe. And I appreciate the time you took to respond. You should post more! Your videos are always amazing.

[ajaychawla]

I never thought of Chinese jets this way. Inspite of the fact that most of Chinese fighter jets are copy of Russian jets, j20 is only functional 5th generation fighter jet outside of USA. That's quite impressive. But what about their market outside china.

[FrotanInferno]

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[austin.]

I must say, it’s definitely interesting to see another Austin who likes all things aerospace. But we also look incredible similar. 👀

[iamrmdp]

Correction: there are at least 120 to 150 J20 already in service.

[edwingan]

In war if it is no shame to kill your enemy, copying him is so smart

[itsalmostfun]

When I asked you about ranking Gen1-5 Jets and you said you made a chinese vid about it
Your an honest man

[foxywinterfox]

When it comes for the Chinese jets, you forgot to mention the FC-1 Fierce Dragon/JF-17 Thunder and the upcoming J-35. Those were other Chinese made jets were got included.

[AviationAustin]

Do agree with the rankings so far? What aircraft do you want me to rank next?

[vctor]

I think the j7 looks more like the Jaguar than the F111

[Cruixale]

Why nothing about Europeans Jets? I Believe Both Thyphoon, Rafale and Grippen where pretty innovative and have many strong points

[Dantm]

As chinese, I don't blame you for your jugements as this is the commonplace outside of china and the low avalibility of military information.(And I do not explicitly state you're wrong to be clear) But it will be nice if you'd like to dig further into our forums(which is really not hard and is very informative to say the least) and do a more detailed coverage of our airforce if you are interested. Especially since you didn't mention all the different varients and the changes we made to aircrafts or the ordinance it was designed to carry. The part about copying was probably the worst, I cannot understand how you would consider a plane as a copy if it doesn't even share the same external layout or function, not to mention out of all the subsystems that make up an aircraft airframe makes up at max 20% of the plane. JH-7 was specifically designed to be used for anti-ship missions at low atltitude, it was never equiped for ground strikes untill later varients were avalible. Personally speaking, I think our airforce and country as a whole is horribly mistaken in its reputation for only capable of copying things and have nothing original at all especially since it is 2024.
It is only because no one had been in our place. We're a independent force struggling between two superpowers with constant threat from all directions whilst fielding equipment sometimes 30 years behind our enemies for much of our history after the birth of PRC. USSR once threatened to nuke us, Americans were circling us from the east and south. We took direct copies, reverse-engineered, and developed our own verisons of things all while hastily catching up the world powers, find pictures of chinese city in 1980 and compare it to american city and you'll see how far we're behind then. It is true we may be making copies and knockoffs, but that was all we had, we needed something to protect our values and interests. You cant really just say we're completly ethicless copycats out of some evil hollywood movie. I think we had proven ourselves from what used to be a semi-coloney to today a major world force. I can confidently tell you that China isn't what you imagine, just do some reasearch in our language to find out.

[divyanshusharma]

please suggest any good book of aerospace engineering . which is complete in itself

[CanalAngelinavlogs]

Chinese aircrafts are not very reliable, many operators in the East and Middle East bought chinese planes and had parts and maintenance problems, making the plane spend days in repair.

[LegionOfShrooms]

SuperHornet is the same as a Hornet except SuperHornet holds more fuel.

[adamfrazer]

CCP says:

"That's okay, I'll just have some of yours."

😬