We can get examples of these advancements from the topic under discussion which is China's leap towards stealth technology. Recently a team of researchers at China's Huazhong University of Science and Technology (HUST) in Wuhan have created a material that can hide the world's best war machines from the all-seeing eyes of the most powerful anti-stealth microwave radars. The material developed at HUST is ten times thinner as compared to existing materials thus paving the possibility of using it to hide anything ranging from ships to planes. it could be even used to construct stealth fighter jets.

China has been putting in a lot of hard work in developing extremely high-tech defense technologies and among those technologies it is said that it is also close to developing its anti stealth technology drones also known as the "Divine eagle." This stealth detection drone can counter stealth aircraft while they are still far from Chinese assets. Among other technologies, at this year's Dubai air show the FC-31 "Gyrfalcon" (aka J-31) was also exhibited which stirred a lot of attention. The J-31 is also an indigenously developed 5th generation Chinese fighter jet. It is believed that with China gaining so much ground in stealth technology, one can actually give credence to the rumors that China is working on a whole lot of stealth weapon systems, ranging from helicopters, to planes to tanks even.

China being the world number 2 economy and with heavy investments in R&D it was only a matter of time that China was going to start innovating and producing its own technology to leave the world in awe. As time will pass we will get to see many new innovations from Chinese researchers and all this has been possible with great planning, hard work and patience. Confucius said "It does not matter how slowly you go so long as you do not stop."

The Author: Shafei Moiz Hali has a master's degree from George Mason University, Virginia, USA in the field of International Commerce and Public Policy. Mr. Hali has been working as an Assistant Professor at the National Defence University (NDU), Islamabad, Pakistan with the department of Government and Public Policy Since 2009. Currently he is pursuing his PhD from the College of Public Administration at the Huazhong University of Science and Technology (HUST), China.

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