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Originally Posted by Archer
Trust me, the proportion of indigenous to import would become a tad lopsided etc, if Russia were to offer its grade-A stuff or if the European embargo were to be removed...what you have, is the classic case of a captive customer and the local industry making hay when the Sun shines. If the political issues preventing grade-A weapons imports into China were to disappear, you'd see that chinese military men were only human...and they'd purchase whatever they could afford (and which met their needs).
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I'm really wondering which grade-A weapons you are talking about. They've offered su-33, su-34, su-35, backfire, bears, 5th generation fighter development. Other than Tu-160, not sure what they got left.
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that would seem to be supported by other (my) sources as well. the YUAN is not the generational leap thats been hyped up in the popular press.
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yeah, even Chinese only call Yuan 039A, so they still consider it as Song.