Military of China, force comment.
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Chinese air force’s F-11 fighter, the prototype for the Russian-made Su-27SK fighters.

LONDON May 7 news: According to the Russian “statement” reported that Russia’s arms exports in 2009 up to 85 billion U.S. dollars, but this will soon be the recent sharp drop in export earnings, because the world arms market in Moscow have encountered a new competitor. They do not spend many time, effort and money in basic research, do not buy patents and licensing, simply adhere to the “ism”, by means of imitation weapons to master the most modern production technologies and processes.

unauthorized imitation of Russian military technology is the phenomenon first appeared in the last century, 50-60 years, when the Romanians or Poles first in the Kalashnikov automatic rifle before the installation of a handle on the care, change claim to the name of national self-developed products, and then started a lot of imitation, or even hands exports. Of course, the history of weapons development in the world, piracy or imitation signs are everywhere, without exception, even the world famous Winchester, Browning, Mauser, Ruger, Stoner, Sikorsky’s classic Once upon a time has also been a lot of imitation products. Soviet Union countries also have plagiarized a precedent in military technology, the most typical example of a Maxim machine gun, Nagant revolver, Shipa gold series assault rifles, even the world-famous Kalashnikov automatic rifles have suspected, the initial the beginning of the individual components in products and institutional sources has not yet entirely clear, many experts believe that they at least from the German STG-43/44 assault rifles.

center of Russia’s strategic and technical analysis, general manager Ruslan – Puhuo Fu said: “I think, there is no way to conduct proper research on the military level of protection, we should look forward and create new weapons, knocking the rear end of the intellectual property thieves, they will naturally lose sales market. modern technology is a secret new military technology, it is impossible to apply to the International Patent Office patent fact that everyone in another peep. “

Russian experts pointed out that all conventional arms exporting countries have suffered, are how to avoid the theft of weapons design and distressed by others. Now the most common is a developing country from a major exporter of weapons in a small group of equipment procurement, procurement pledge followed an additional division of the aircraft or an aviation brigade of a naval frigate, but two years later, the arms-exporting countries may will be in Lima, Abu Dhabi, Farnborough, or somewhere else on the international arms exhibition was surprised to see samples of their products cloning. Is still the same product, just change the name for the external decoration, add some trivial add-on devices, recently transformed into a weapons importer exporter to export to obtain huge profits. It’s hard to fight with this phenomenon, preferring to save 700-1000 ten thousand U.S. dollars away even if it is not very good purchase pirated goods assembled too many countries. However, the reality of the Europeans have gradually learned through other means to compensate for their loss, for example, strictly control the export of high-tech military products and replace them with billions of dollars in the supply of aviation equipment, such as the Airbus aircraft.

Russian experts believe that the recent Sino-Russian military cooperation is only beneficial to one side, China has begun to Russia’s traditional partners to provide affordable new Russian-made weaponry replicas. The huge Chinese military, economic prosperity, attaches great importance to independent production of new weapons and equipment, but relatively speaking Chinese people’s design ideas being still very backward. They simply adhere to the “ism”, anything useful will be unceremoniously brought learn, for China is often accused of being intellectual property. For example, after last year’s 60th anniversary parade, the Chinese army show 60 kinds of new military equipment was actually about half of suspected similar to the Russian, European, American and Israeli products imitation.

China from Russia and other countries eager to get his needs technical process, but Russian producers have found the Chinese people is to prevent the cloning of the way their weapons. In 2003 Russia signed a license production of Su-27SK aircraft contract, but orders for 200 aircraft purchased only half of China, said in explaining the reasons for the Su-27 combat is not ideal, they have to concentrate on the development of China-made F-11B aircraft. Sukhoi Company protested this, saying the Chinese J-11B is actually copied in accordance with the principle of one Su-27, Su-30 derived from the past. Moscow denied the accusations of China reiterated its self-developed J-11 is the proprietary product, 70% of its parts were manufactured in China. In addition to aircraft and engine, but China has been Russia’s “stabilization phase accelerator” of the Commonwealth developed the latest airborne radar system, “pearl”, it just recommend the latest Russian MiG-35 fighter using a “beetle” airborne radar similar. Russian Federal Military-Technical Cooperation Bureau, now the Chinese want to purchase from Russia of Russian industrial enterprises is not the end product, but the high technology and processes, the Russian defense companies and design bureaus pressure bottom of things.

center of Russia’s strategic and technical analysis, general manager of Puhuo Fu stressed that the Russian Federal Military-Technical Cooperation Agency officials are preparing to sell China more than 100 new aircraft engine used, Moscow can use this core component of control China . He said: “Without us the engine, a large number of Chinese exports fighter is impossible while China can sign the contract, the commitment is to buy their own, and then resold the engine, thereby causing direct damage to our way of course, we can engine by the Chinese dependent on Russian supplies, we all have the ability to let the Chinese Air Force aircraft are parked in the hangar (not off). reject (Engine supply) contract will make us lose a lot of revenue. “

Russian experts point out that Ukraine also the rise of the Chinese military has made no small contribution to the mere price of $ 20 million in sales to China that were not completed, “Kuznetsov” aircraft carrier and have all the relevant technical literature , in addition to a Su-33 carrier aircraft test samples, the results of 2009 China proudly showed the world’s first domestically produced carrier-based fighter aircraft. Other former Soviet Union and Warsaw Pact countries are also sold on the world market a lot of old inherited from the Soviet Union and the Russian military weapons and equipment supply company a copy of the new products, such as the Belarusian export S-125 “Pechora” air defense missile systems, the latest “mobile” battle command system, Poland’s exports, “Arrow” portable air defense missile systems, Bulgarian exports to Georgia’s Russian-made anti-tank missile system. Although North Korea’s performance a little low-key, but its ability to imitate the same surprising. 2007-2008 sold to Iran, North Korea, “Taepodong” missile is the Soviet system “Scud” missiles modernized model, while North Korea’s weapons exports in the recent surprising discovery of the Russian KH-35 subsonic cruise missiles, sea-based imitation.

Indeed, Russia is also helping China create their own aircraft, including MiG-29 rivals as the F-10 and FC-1 is the assistance of the Russian MiG company developed from the relevant contract Rosoboronexport is the Russian Federal Military Technical Cooperation Bureau to allow the case developed. Now China plans to supply to these fighters Azerbaijan and Zimbabwe, while mass production in Pakistan. Previously was a Russian-made aircraft and parts procurement country’s other traditional countries such as Bangladesh, Burma, Lebanon, Iran, Malaysia, Morocco, Nigeria, Sri Lanka, Algeria, also has such a fighter showed interest. China plans to produce at least 2000 recent latest fighter. China has not only squeezed in the traditional markets in Russia, there may be gradually replaced, inexpensive and efficient as the main producers of aviation equipment, air force commander announced that Malaysia may be equipped with Russian-made fighter parts imports from China is an alarming signal. Last two years the Russian military-technical cooperation in the scale of decline by 62 percent, almost did not sign a new contract. People will soon forget, Beijing has been in the field of military technology as Moscow’s strategic partner. At the same time, China is contemplating the future profits of the Chinese fighter in the export market will be bigger than 800 aircraft.

Russia’s Rosoboronexport, an anonymous source pointed out that if China’s aviation industry will continue to speed the pace of development the last two years progress, then it would have a combat aviation equipment exports to Russia even more serious impact. Can not say that Russia’s defense industry officials do not understand the gravity of the situation, they are looking for a solution, some way trying to influence and change the situation. (Compiled: Shu-shan)