Improvements Likely For China’s Combat Aircraft Engines

China is close to volume production of aero-engines that can handle higher internal temperatures, increasing performance, durability or both, very probably for use in combat aircraft. The shift is revealed in market inquiries for large supplies of rhenium, a rare metal that increases the temperature...

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