China’s Air Force: from Shield to Sword
... developing extremely rapidly over the last two decades and is now approaching a decisive point which will be vitally important for China’s future potential to project its power far beyond its borders. The People’s Liberation Army Air Force (PLAAF) of today traces its history back to the small aviation units of the Red Army in the period 1930–40 [1] . The communist forces made very limited use of aircraft in the ... ... family, installed in Chinese-made Y-8 aircraft. www.fvjs.cn H-6K bomber (based on the copy of the Tu-16) PLAAF A multitude of UAVs, including large-scale types, are being developed with an eye to American and Israeli equivalents. One landmark success in ...