06 Mar 21
@AThousandYoung
Don't be telling her that, she will now denounce you as a pro Israeli Trumpite.....
06 Mar 21
@sonhouse saidSometimes it is best to quit while your behind! 🙂
@AThousandYoung
Don't be telling her that, she will now denounce you as a pro Israeli Trumpite.....
-VR
06 Mar 21
@athousandyoung saidIt was an interesting article. It looks like the Russians have just given up trying to stop the Chinese from copying.
Yes that is typical of China. They buy just enough of something to reverse engineer it and then manufacture it themselves. It makes it very difficult for any country to make money selling their advanced arms to China.
https://asia.nikkei.com/Politics/International-relations/Russia-up-in-arms-over-Chinese-theft-of-military-technology
The S-400 *might* be different and I'd love to know the answer. If the Chinese copy it and sell it
they are taking business away from Russia.
Russia has bitter memories of this:
China has long copied Russian weaponry. During the 1990s, China purchased Russia's elite Su-27 fighter jets and S-300 missile systems. Beijing later used these as templates for developing its own J-11 fighter jet and HQ-9 surface-to-air missiles.
Such blatant reverse engineering alarmed many in the Russian arms industry, prompting Moscow to push back against the theft, explained Vadim Kozyulin, director of the Asian Security Project at the PIR Center.
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So do the Ruskies let it happen again to the Su-35 and the S-400?
If they have a scaled down version of the S-400 made for the Chinese, they could have sold that to the Turks , too
Tricky business.
06 Mar 21
@Duchess64
With all the expensive blather, I have one question for you, How come the Chinese bought just "a few" S-400's, or any at all?
The post that was quoted here has been removedDuchess, I am not judging China, I am only putting in here what they copied.
you agree with me that China copied the Su-27 and S-300, so now why I am I such a bastid for questioning
(not accusing them) whether China will do this with other advanced Russian military pieces?
you are to o defensive.