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Title

China's air force enters the 21st century / Kenneth W. Allen, Glenn Krumel, Jonathan D. Pollack.

Author

Allen, Kenneth W.

Publication

Santa Monica, CA : Rand, 1995.

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Additional Authors

• Krumel, Glenn
• Pollack, Jonathan D.
• United States. Air Force

Description

xxvi, 249 p. : ill., maps; 23 cm.

Summary

The Chinese People's Liberation Army Air Force (PLAAF) does not constitute a credible offensive threat against the United States or its Asian allies today, and this situation will not change dramatically over the coming decade. If anything, its overall capabilities relative to most of its potential rivals will diminish over the next ten years. These circumstances are a product of constrained strategic thinking in China about the role of airpower, the lack of funds needed for a comprehensive modernization program, logistics and maintenance problems, the limited training available to its pilots, and the absence of a capability to develop and manufacture advanced airpower weapon systems. Although some modern aircraft will be introduced into the PLAAF inventory during the next ten years, the rate and scale of these acquisitions will remain incremental and demonstrably insufficient to redefine the regional airpower balance.

Subject

• China. Kong jun
• Air power > China

Note

• "Project Air Force."--Preface.
• "Prepared for the United States Air Force."

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 239-249).

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

The People's Liberation Army : institutional development and defense strategy -- The PLAAF's formative years : 1924-1960 -- "Living in interesting times" : the PLAAF in the 1960s -- The reform process begins -- The PLAAF's search for airpower strategy : toward the 21st century -- PLAAF education and training -- PLAAF force structure trends -- Appendix. A : The structure of the PLA, PLAAF, and naval aviation -- B : The PLAAF budget -- C : The political commissar system -- D : The PLAAF rank system -- E : Aircraft procurement programs -- F : Fighter aircraft projection -- G : Indigenous SAM systems.

ISBN

0833016482 (alk. paper)

LCCN

^^^95017782^//r95

OCLC

• 32429548
• SCSB-11915633

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library