Fan Huitao, chief designer of China Airborne Missile Academy, was interviewed by China News on March 4. Fan Huitao expressed, "The capability and accuracy rate of China's air-to-air missiles has entered the same technological generation as that of America."
An air-to-air missile indicates the status of the defense industry of a country. A state needs to gather its scientific power to make an air-to-air missile. There are a few countries that can make this kind of missile and America is leading the way; its technology has entered into the fourth generation. Now, China has entered a new phase of missile technology, which is comparable to U.S.
On the 60th National Day Armed Forces Review, last year, a fighter aircraft with the fourth generation missile flew over Tiananmen Square. This was the first time China showed the missile to the world.
