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The PLAAF Is Using Elements of Actual Combat to Transform Its Training System and Improve Operational Effectiveness

• Senior PLAAF leaders have redoubled their efforts at instilling discipline and offering honest assessments of shortcomings across all levels of aviation unit training.
• The PLAAF is professionalizing unit training through adherence to less-scripted, combat-realistic training that trains for the battlefield, not for the test.
• There has been a clear increase in the degree of difficulty of training subjects and scenarios that have been stipulated by the PLAAF Party Committee.

Significant Barriers Still Exist for Development

• When compared with its U.S. Air Force counterpart, clear deficiencies remain among PLAAF pilots in the area of combat tactics and skills.
• Institutional impediments run deep in a military that has for decades remained an army-centric fighting force.
• Concepts involving joint command and control across different branches within the PLAAF itself as well as across the army, navy, and air force are underdeveloped.