[Military and Military Subplane] Author: Le Le
In a situation where the world is not calm, and can even be said to smoke everywhere, capable nations are working hard to develop national defense to respond to occasional needs. On the 11th, the U.S. website "Defence-Blog" cited Algeria's government news, calling out concerns about the security situation around it, its military spending in 2026 reached a record $25 billion, possible purchases of equipment, including the export of the J-10CE and J-35E of the Chinese aviation industry.
▲ Algeria's military spending has indeed increased significantly
The article mentioned that Algeria's military expenditure in 2022 is only US$11 billion. It began to rise after the outbreak of the Russia-Ukraine war, triggering global tensions, and it will not stop once the increase, and more than doubled in just three years. The surge in funding has promoted the launch of large-scale military projects, the most well-known of which is the purchase of 12 Su-57s and 14 Su-34s, which were well known to the outside world due to accidental leaks of information. According to Russian news, the first two Su-57s are ready for delivery, and the Su-34 painted in desert camouflage is also actively flying, but the subsequent development is not that simple.
▲ There is no problem with the Su-34 order, but it cannot solve Algeria's needs
Algeria, located in the center of North Africa, because of its many neighbors and long insisted on developing advanced armed forces, once boasted with dozens of Su-30MKAs. But with the decline in the development of Russian weapons, Morocco, which has complaints and regional disputes, and has spent heavy money on purchasing F-16V and F-35As from the United States, is currently actively receiving, and the situation is rather disappointing. Especially after the F-16V is equipped with the AIM-120C later model, it is really capable of attacking 120 kilometers outdoors targets. And the Su-30MKA with the R-77, an effective combat distance even less than 80 kilometers means. Once the Moroccan F-16Vs become armed, it will take air control in a possible outbreak of conflic
▲ Without the Thunderbolt-15, the AIM-120C is still very lethal
In addition to the F-35A ordered by Morocco is also about to be delivered, when the pressure will be bigger to the sky, Algeria will only be Su-57 real performance poor, the Russian-Ukrainian war is not over, open the Su-57 reception process. The problem is that the threat faced by Algeria is very realistic, the demand for combat power is higher than anything. Su-57 delivery represents only the market for long-term operation, due to the inertia willingness to continue to try Russian weapons, once the performance is not enough to counter the F-35A, stop purchases and even return is inevitable (Algeria before 2010, is really backward to the poor performance of the MiG-29). In fact, the Su-35S has appeared in Algeria and Algeria, but has not been selected, has proved the buyer
▲ Su-35 has been abandoned
Considering that even if the Su-57 performs well, the quantity will be difficult to cope with the F-16V and F-35A at the same time, it has led to speculation that Algeria has other plans, the most reasonable of which is to place an order for the J-10CE. In this logic, the purchase of the Su-57 with the label of fifth-generation aircraft is an action to pursue new technologies in the Russian-made equipment system with the deepest accumulation. Placing an order for the J-10CE is to get in touch with mature equipment in the new system at a relatively low cost. To put it bluntly, Algeria still hopes in its heart that it will continue to be dominated by Russian-made fighter jets. This is an indelible inertia, so it will purchase Su-57.
▲ Su-57 gained the opportunity to compete
But the problem of the Russian aviation industry, everyone can see. Therefore, Algeria had to start considering the Chinese fighter aircraft, given the potential technological risk of the J-35E is relatively high, choosing the mature, relatively cheap J-10CE as a breakthrough is naturally more appropriate, and can also solve the urgency of the current. and the practice of the Algeria Air Force, no matter which fighter aircraft, the first purchase number is not too much, dozens are the limit, want to get subsequent orders, all have to talk about performance.
The 10C is a very good choice.
In the vast majority of cases, the political attributes of the fighter trade are higher than the performance value itself, but in Algeria in 2025, the Chinese-Russian fighter aircraft still rarely got a relatively fair competitive environment. Now the Su-35S is out, the Su-57 is still in the field, and the opposite is the combination of the J-10CE and the J-35E, who can get the market dominance of this more than $20 billion of military spending per year, look at the outcome of this round.