Unable to copy it, China tries building own jet engine - Polidicks

Uhm. Technology is far more complex than a sports team and organizing an opening ceremony.

[QUOTE=Nikota;38259621]Uhm. Technology is far more complex than a sports team and organizing an opening ceremony.[/QUOTE] they got a bunch of medals 'cause they have a program where they select and train kids from a young age for the expressed purpose of competing in the olympics. i'd imagine training athletes includes technical stuff like nutrition and doping. the point is that if they dedicated enough resources they could do it, and if you read the article it refers to a lack of funds which they're changing.

Researching them in China should be fine But producing a jet engine in China sounds like suicide Pretty much any production company in China begins to switch out parts for cheaper alternatives that usually dont even meet the specs, and hope noone sees it

There is this policy of never selling to China. Because the second you do they will copy and reverse engineer what you are selling and eventually push you off the market with their cheaper clones.

[QUOTE=laserguided;38259502]Because they can't. They're too capitalist, instead of spending money on RnD they copy the competitor and make it cheaper so they compete in their own way.[/QUOTE] I think their spending into RnD is among the top 5 in the world. It's just the negative coverage of China that makes it seem that China has no innovation.

i'm chinese and these comments make me sad as shit :<

Seems so inefficient to keep re-inventing the wheel. Or the jet engine in this case.

[QUOTE=smeismastger;38259490]What's with the general attitude here that China can't do anything right?[/QUOTE] Cause we asian have small eyes. I'm chinese

[QUOTE=smeismastger;38259490]What's with the general attitude here that China can't do anything right?[/QUOTE] Because they can't. Their fighter jets are shitty clones of Russian 4th generation fighters, with crappy Chinese avionics which were probably sourced to sweatshops.

[QUOTE=Clavus;38260121]Seems so inefficient to keep re-inventing the wheel. Or the jet engine in this case.[/QUOTE] Why is that inefficient? If we did not do so, we might still be stuck with shitty turbojet technology rather than turbofan technology and even scramjets which are only recently emerging. There's nothing wrong with the Chinese building their own jet engines. Hell, they might discover new ways to make them even more economical and powerful thanks to "re-inventing the wheel", which you have a problem with.

[QUOTE=Antdawg;38260407]Why is that inefficient? If we did not do so, we might still be stuck with shitty turbojet technology rather than turbofan technology and even scramjets which are only recently emerging. There's nothing wrong with the Chinese building their own jet engines. Hell, they might discover new ways to make them even more economical and powerful thanks to "re-inventing the wheel", which you have a problem with.[/QUOTE] Except they wont because its China, they'll probably try to build something similar to the Russian AL-31's with no innovation whatsoever.

Jet Engine technology isn't that difficult to produce. The problem is building a jet engine that doesn't melt when you turn it on.

Russia and America are dangling planes from string like candy. China is that little midget bouncing trying to catch them.

Lets airship!