How Many Fighter Jets Does China Produce Annually? Concerns arise about China surpassing the US Air Force in fighter jet production

[j_hungary]

All airborne assets will be unmanned and fully autonomous flown by AI.

I don't know what you know about AI........

But until human can find a way to physically limit AI, AI isn't that much useful in military technology.

 

[Alter_Ego]

You can't train 1000 pilot in 4 years.....then you need to have 1000 trainer to have that 1000 pilot put into training...Which makes "adding 1000 planes a year" quite pointless.

You are talking about a 4-year aviation degree with another 3 to 4 years flight training.

And US made more than 222 plane a year, that number only counted how many plane US was taking up, US also sell jet internationally......

Many of them will simply replace older aircrafts right ?

 

[Alter_Ego]

I think this is just the beginning.

China has yet to produce large number of modern fighters for export.

Until recently, i think, aircraft engine was a major bottle neck. Now that chinese engine are reasonably good, the production number will be ramped up.

 

[j_hungary]

Many of them will simply replace older aircrafts right ?

You still need to retrain the pilot to fly these new aircrafts.

You can't put a F-7 pilot on a J-16 directly.........In case of the Ukrainian MIG pilot trained to F-16 standard, they need 1 year to retrain. Again, usually it takes 3.

Another point being, China do not have 3000 old aircraft to replace to begin with.......