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China: First-ever Success in In-flight Refueling
Donga Ilbo ^
| 10/29/06
Posted on 10/29/2006 1:08:25 AM PST by TigerLikesRooster
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China: First-ever Success in In-flight Refueling
With the recent first-ever success of in-flight refueling, which supplies fuel to a plane in flight, China rises to become a country with strategic military, which can conduct all-weather missions on both land and sea.
An air force unit in Guangzhou recently completed the successful in-flight refueling training for the first time in China. It made China the fifth country in the world with in-flight refueling capability, after Britain, U.S., Russia, and France, according to Oct. 29 report of Wenwei Bao in Hong Kong.
Chinese military experts said that the success is a great achievement that would free Chinese air force from the limits of short-distance tactics, and enables long-distance strike. Furthermore, it allows the shift from predominantly defensive tactic of guarding strategic targets to combined tactics of offense and defense.
The paper commented that, with the widespread use of in-flight refueling, U.S. was able to perform it about 52,000 times during the Gulf War, and 21,000 times during the Kosovo Crisis.
(Hong Kong = Yonhap News)
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TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; Front Page News; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: china; india; inflight; refueling; success
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Must be a bad news.
To: TigerLikesRooster; AmericanInTokyo; OahuBreeze; yonif; risk; Steel Wolf; nuconvert; MizSterious; ...
To: sukhoi-30mki; indcons; Gengis Khan
It made China the fifth country in the world with in-flight refueling capability, after Britain, U.S., Russia, and France, according to Oct. 29 Ping!
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posted on
10/29/2006 1:20:12 AM PST
by
CarrotAndStick
(The articles posted by me needn't necessarily reflect my opinion.)
To: TigerLikesRooster
If they're going to field a fleet of tankers now, we'll just have to build more of these......
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posted on
10/29/2006 1:20:46 AM PST
by
edpc
(Violence is ALWAYS a solution. Maybe not the right one....but a solution nonetheless)
To: TigerLikesRooster
It made China the fifth country in the world with in-flight refueling capability, after Britain, U.S., Russia, and France, according to Oct. 29 
India has had this capability for years now. Or am I missing something?
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posted on
10/29/2006 1:35:15 AM PST
by
CarrotAndStick
(The articles posted by me needn't necessarily reflect my opinion.)
To: CarrotAndStick
Re #5
Talk to Wenwei Bao.:-D)
To: TigerLikesRooster
WOW...with that technological breakthrough a new world order will be formed shortly!!
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posted on
10/29/2006 1:51:38 AM PST
by
RVN Airplane Driver
("To be born into freedom is an accident; to die in freedom is an obligation..POW input)
To: TigerLikesRooster
The American "Barrier Ocean" myth just breathed its last gasp.
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posted on
10/29/2006 1:53:33 AM PST
by
Uncle Ike
(Stop the "tyranny of the 'offended' " -- say what you mean and stand by it!)
To: RVN Airplane Driver
Oh no... this is bad. The Chicoms will be able to leverage this technology to provide indoor plumbing to 90% of the citizens....
To: TigerLikesRooster
Wonder what kinds "tips" Bubba gave em.
To: TigerLikesRooster
Interesting that the Chinese are perfecting something that Ira Eaker, Carl Spatz and others were doing in the 1930's
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posted on
10/29/2006 3:49:18 AM PST
by
Jimmy Valentine
(DemocRATS - when they speak, they lie; when they are silent, they are stealing the American Dream)
To: TigerLikesRooster
A little Googling turns up references to Israel, Iran, Libya and Turkey also having AR capability. There are probably others.
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posted on
10/29/2006 3:54:39 AM PST
by
Grut
To: AmericaUnited
Oh no... this is bad. The Chicoms will be able to leverage this technology to provide indoor plumbing to 90% of the citizens.... Actually, this is about as outdoor as plumbing gets.... :^)
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posted on
10/29/2006 3:56:48 AM PST
by
Grut
To: TigerLikesRooster
Article: It made China the fifth country in the world with in-flight refueling capability, after Britain, U.S., Russia, and France, according to Oct. 29 report of Wenwei Bao in Hong Kong.
This is factually wrong. In the Far East alone, Singapore and Australia have this capability. A lot of European countries also have it.
To: Zhang Fei
I'm guessing the writer meant to say the Chinese are only the 5th country to have developed their own refueling capability. All the other countries mentioned like Turkey and Israel etc use US or European developed air refueling planes.
At least that's my guess and I'm sticking to it.
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posted on
10/29/2006 4:17:19 AM PST
by
saganite
(Billions and billions and billions-------and that's just the NASA budget!)
To: Jimmy Valentine
Yep the US and Uk have done this for decades. More chinese nonsense to stir up rabid nationlism.
To: TigerLikesRooster
Chinese military experts said that the success is a great achievement that would free Chinese air force from the limits of short-distance tactics, and enables long-distance strike. Furthermore, it allows the shift from predominantly defensive tactic of guarding strategic targets to combined tactics of offense and defense.
Key sentence. Welcome PLAAF to what...1949? Just remember to properly defend the tankers. Otherwise, it is a very long swim home from Taiwan.
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posted on
10/29/2006 4:56:56 AM PST
by
Captain Rhino
( Dollars spent in India help a friend; dollars spent in China arm an enemy.)
To: Jeff Head
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posted on
10/29/2006 4:57:25 AM PST
by
Incorrigible
(If I lead, follow me; If I pause, push me; If I retreat, kill me.)
To: TigerLikesRooster
The PRC has had aerial refuelling tankers for years now. This is a poor piece of journalism.
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posted on
10/29/2006 6:11:21 AM PST
by
Tommyjo
To: TigerLikesRooster
The Chinese Navy and Air Force have had this capability since the 1990s
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posted on
10/29/2006 6:25:58 AM PST
by
Tommyjo
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