China's new helicopter.........

[Task Force]

Originally Posted by Oberon

I was just about to say something like that, this looks like just another upgrade of the Z-9. I was kind of hoping they'd brought out the WZ-10, now that thing looks familiar

Still, this is how a lot of nations have started their aircraft industry, you only have to look at the Soviets and the B-29/Tu-4, heck we reverse engineered Jerry cans during the war!

They are learning, and learning fast, and like TLAM said, already they are putting what they have learnt into new designs based upon Western ideas and designs but not directly copying them. The J-XX is an example, it looks a lot like the F-22, but the Chinese have put a canard on the front and it's a lot bigger. It's probably not up to the standards of the F-22, but for a nation that was, less than ten years ago, flying mostly derivatives of the MiG-21 (and for that matter, still does), it makes you wonder what they'll be flying in ten years time...

Indeed, reminds me of something I saw about the Chinese auto industry, quite interesting actually to see a nation learning its way to being a modern one, and the problems it may bring.