PLAAF

Using cyberwarfare, space assets and quick offensive strikes, the PLAAF is trying to become a high-tech, high-tempo aerospace force.

Watch Out for China's Air Force Michael Auslin 2011

In 2004, it came up with its first specific PLAAF strategy, focusing on "integrated air and space operations, both defensive and offensive."

Watch Out for China's Air Force Michael Auslin 2011

Today, the PLAAF remains years behind the U.S. Air Force in terms of experience, training and operational planning.

Watch Out for China's Air Force Michael Auslin 2011

The PLAAF also is looking to the next generation of weapons.

Watch Out for China's Air Force Michael Auslin 2011

As the U.S. Air Force's National Air and Space Intelligence Center put it in a report last year, the People's Liberation Army Air Force, or PLAAF, has been transforming itself from a poorly equipped and trained organization into an increasingly capable fighting force.

Watch Out for China's Air Force Michael Auslin 2011

The PLAAF is developing a fifth-generation fighter and becoming a high-tech, high-tempo aerospace force.

Watch Out for China's Air Force Michael Auslin 2011

Overall, the PLAAF has more than 1,600 combat aircraft, which does not count the nearly 300 combat aircraft of the separate PLA Navy air forces.

Watch Out for China's Air Force Michael Auslin 2011

To assist the PLA in its goal of attacking deployed aircraft carrier battle groups, two PLA Air Force PLAAF authors, Sun Yiming and Yang Liping, have built a virtual roadmap for attacking joint U.S. data control systems and military communications.

Archive 2007-09-01 2007

To assist the PLA in its goal of attacking deployed aircraft carrier battle groups, two PLA Air Force PLAAF authors, Sun Yiming and Yang Liping, have built a virtual roadmap for attacking joint U.S. data control systems and military communications.

The Return of Fu Manchu - Chapter One: Heinous Hackers 2007

From reading some of the local media, it seems that the ROC forces held air superiority over the first three days, with a large air battle on Day 2 where the ROCAF lost 140 fighters vs. 400 for the PLAAF.

Communications failure: Chinese Take Taipei Michael Turton 2006