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Originally Posted by tphuang
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.
yeah, even Chinese only call Yuan 039A, so they still consider it as Song.
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Just to clarify my prev, My agreement with archer on purchasing a-grade systems is because china is in a position to buy. Its a buyers market from her perspective in that the combat technology she wants from russia, she can get. at the time the russians needed the money - and china had it in spades. At an aviation level she's been able to fast track composite developments by the securing of commercial composite work via Boeing and Airbus. Ironically, the composite tech in current commercial jetliners is more sophisticated than what appeared in the F-117, so she's been able to sidestep the harder bits of the learning curve through contract building.
ditto for maritime tech where she's been able to secure tech from france, uk, germany etc on the basis of dual use adaptation.
I'm still trying to work out how she gets around the embargo issue when she's buying scottish built arrays for seabed and harbour defence.