Rapid Progress in China’s Defense Electronics Soon to Break Western Monopoly

Leishi-6 guided glide bomb

According to Britain’s Jane’s Defence Weekly, compared with other countries, China’s defense industry employs more people and does more research, but components produced in Western and other countries continue to play vital roles in PLA’s modernization.

That cannot be put an end overnight according to a responsible person of an enterprise that participates in China’s International Defense Electronics Exhibition.

He said that generally speaking, it takes two years for a new system using new electronic technology or foreign-made components to be put in use. At present, the process will soon complete. That is why we see China has made so much progress this year.

Jane’s report says Kotel Micro Technology Co., Ltd., is a leading enterprise producing military and civil electronic equipment. It produces lots of components for guidance and navigation aid systems, but its products have not yet been used in the most well-known precision guided weapons such as the Leishi-6 guided glide bombs with satellite and inertia navigation aid developed by Luoyang Optoelectro Technology Development Center.

Kotel said it was willing to participate in the production of such top weapons, but the report believes the PLA’s major upgrading of its none-Western weapon system has come from Ukrainian national defense enterprises, which have made various improvements for the sensory systems of Su-27, J-11 and J-11B fighter jets.

According to a Russian radar designer, the cycle of updating defense electronic technology is 5-7 years on average. The present cycle will soon be over in China’s current defense industry and a new cycle will soon begin. He believes at the end of this decade, China will begin to manufacture the systems monopolized by Russia and the West such as electronic scan phased array radar.

He said the major reason China can make such great progress and achievements is the large amount of resources China has put in.

Source: huanqiu.com “Jane’s: China’s defense electronics industry grows rapidly and will soon break Western monopoly” (summary by Chan Kai Yee based on the report in Chinese)

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