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00:00I don't like this, sir.
00:02I'm sorry, Otis. It's for your own good.
00:04I didn't do anything wrong, sir.
00:07Otis, you shipped yourself to China without telling anything to me or to anyone else,
00:13you shipped yourself to a Chinese pilot academy,
00:18and after having met with your friends,
00:21you just decided that you wanted to have a look up close to the JL-10s and the J-10s,
00:28so you started wandering in the hangars,
00:31you end up messing up with the graduation ceremony,
00:35you have been spotted,
00:37and you don't realize how difficult it was to convince the Chinese to send you back,
00:47you have no idea how difficult it was to actually write a script
00:51that selectively deleted all your memories from that place without damaging you,
00:58and convince the Chinese that it actually worked.
01:01If I didn't manage to do that, you could have been scrap metal by now.
01:05Sorry, Otis. It's for your own good.
01:07I'm sorry.
01:12It is dark in here.
01:14Oh, come on, you have infrared.
01:15I also have the name and the number of the lady you meet at the supermarket.
01:27She is single.
01:29Okay, I'm listening.
01:36Hey, this video is a follow-up of the previous video about Chinese training and doctrine.
01:41Why do we need to follow up?
01:43Well, because recently there has been quite a large change
01:47that has probably few equivalents in the West.
01:56China operates a large fleet of trainer aircraft,
01:59and the most numerous of those is the JL-8,
02:02which is roughly an equivalent of the British Hawk or the Italian MB-339.
02:08After that, the pilots transition on the JL-9,
02:11which is a supersonic trainer roughly equivalent to the T-38 Talon.
02:17But, currently, there is also an advanced trainer, the JL-10,
02:22that is being deployed as we speak.
02:25This one is roughly an equivalent of the Italian Mach 346 Master or the Russian Yak-130.
02:32China is currently focusing on improving pilots training in several ways.
02:39We have described the details in the previous video,
02:42and for those who didn't watch it, here is an extract.
02:49A Chinese person may join the PLAAF because it has been recruited at school
02:54or because being enlisted he then applied for the position.
02:59In fact, the potential cadet is probably coming from a school
03:03where he or she was already noticed as a good prospect.
03:07However, in the last few years, the Chinese are also accepting college and university students.
03:13The same way the Chinese Air Force used to be a predominantly Han force,
03:18but now is also accepting people coming from Chinese minorities.
03:23Between a thousand and thirteen hundred cadets are recruited every year,
03:27and about 50% of them reaches the end of the training.
03:32The Chinese system is referred to as the four-stage system,
03:37and it is also called 4 plus 1 plus 1,
03:41referring to the number of years that are actually required to complete the syllabus.
03:45The training starts with four years of academic formation at the PLAAF University in Changchun.
03:52During these years, the cadet starts almost immediately flying with the simulators,
03:57but real flight has to wait the fourth year with piston engine trainers,
04:03and it's going to last for about 250 hours.
04:08After the university, the cadet is transferred to one of the three colleges for one or two years.
04:14Combat pilots fly on the JL-8 trainer,
04:18while bomber and transport pilots use different aircraft,
04:22and obviously helicopter pilots fly on helicopters.
04:26The flight duration in this stage is from 150 to 200 hours.
04:31In the following phase, lasting about one year,
04:34the pilot receives flight training and tactical training on his or her final operational aircraft.
04:42It is in this stage that a pilot may be selected
04:45to become a rear seat weapons control officer,
04:49basically the equivalent of the weapon system officers in Western Air Forces.
04:53At the end of this phase, the cadet becomes a third grade pilot.
04:57In phase four, lasting six months,
04:59the pilot receives further tactical training and, crucially, joint operations training.
05:05At the end of this stage, the pilot is finally assigned to the first operational unit.
05:10So this general picture still holds,
05:13but in 2021 there have been some important upgrades to this syllabus.
05:24In August 2021, the first group of cadets trained only on JL-10
05:30actually graduated from Shazwang Academy.
05:37This class skipped the JL-9 stage and part of the JL-8 training,
05:43thanks to these peculiar JL-10 features.
05:47In fact, the JL-10 is designed to simulate the flight characteristics and the cockpit
05:54and, let's say, the general experience of a four-generation fighter.
05:58In this way, the pilots that are destined to the J-10,
06:01or one of the Flanker variants,
06:04or the J-20,
06:06are better prepared to transition to their final aircraft.
06:10The Chinese have reported a 30% improvement in the learning speed
06:16with no detrimental consequences.
06:24Yes, you read correctly, this is not a mistake.
06:27During 2021, the Shazwang Academy received an undetermined number of J-10s.
06:34Yes, J-10s.
06:36The J-10 is basically the cornerstone of the Chinese Air Force.
06:40It is a multi-role fighter, it is the most numerous type in service,
06:46and it has three variants.
06:48Apparently, the aircraft destined to the Academy are J-10As, the oldest variant.
06:54We have a series of videos about the aircraft, link above here if you are interested.
06:58So, the purpose of the J-10 is to train the cadets on their final aircraft
07:06directly at Academy level.
07:07In this way, the whole process of training a cadet is reduced from six years
07:12to little more than four years.
07:14So, the new cadets start flying early on basic trainer aircraft,
07:18then they skip the JL-8, go directly to the JL-10,
07:22where they get their jet experience.
07:25In their fourth year, the cadets start flying the J-10
07:29and they learn to fly the aircraft in those tactical and joint operations
07:35that are fundamental to become a combat-ready pilot.
07:39In this way, as we have already pointed out,
07:42the entire syllabus has been reduced of almost two years
07:46without compromising the quality of the cadets
07:49graduating from the Academy according to the Chinese.
07:52Not all the pilots follow this accelerated training
07:56because the limiting factor is the availability of frontline combat fighters
08:02to be assigned to the Academies.
08:04We have no news of any other combat aircraft assigned to the Academies,
08:08so for now we have to think that Flanker pilots and J-20 pilots
08:14are following the normal syllabus.
08:21However, these changes in Chinese training
08:25stimulate at least a couple of considerations.
08:28The Chinese Air Force is focusing heavily on training,
08:33finally recognizing that it is a fundamental enabler of an Air Force effectiveness.
08:40And mind that this is a realization that if we consider
08:45what used to be the path doctrine back in the 80s or even early 90s,
08:52it is no small achievement.
08:54In the early 2000s, the Chinese Air Force suffered some failures
08:59in joint training with other countries
09:02that have been basically attributed to training and doctrine.
09:06Those have been hard lessons
09:08but it seems that the Chinese have actually learned quite well from those.
09:12The second consideration is that the Chinese seem to have a real hunger of pilots
09:18and this is the reason why they are accelerating their formation.
09:22The most likely underlying reason
09:24is that they are planning a further expansion of the Air Force
09:28and this would not be exactly news
09:30because they have been consistently acquiring about 100 combat aircraft every year
09:35either replacing the older models or creating new units.
09:41However, it is possible that the Chinese are thinking
09:44to operate their aircraft with a blue gold model,
09:48that is, having one aircraft for more than one pilot
09:52so the aircraft can fly more missions than the pilots.
09:57In fact, in wartime, at least for a limited period,
10:00the aircraft can definitely fly more missions than a pilot.
10:05However, these are speculations and we don't know the exact answer
10:08but we will keep following the development of the situation.
10:12In the meanwhile, we have quite a few videos about China on the channel
10:16and they're going to appear beside me.
10:18Thank you very much for watching and see you there!