Chinese version of Russian jet endangers bilateral relations
rt | 4/20/10 | Source: Free Republic
Posted on Saturday, April 24, 2010 10:57:24 AM by Flavius
Despite holding the position as one of the world’s biggest economies, China seems unwilling to shed its reputation for producing cheap replicas.
And one of their more ambitious copycat efforts may put a strain on Russia-China relations.
“This Chinese plane is simply a Russian design stuffed with local electronics,” says Maksim Pyadushkin from the Center for Analysis of Strategies and Technology about the Chinese J11B jet’s resemblance to the Russian Su-27. “It's a knock-off.”
NOTE: If the Russians sold the Chinese a couple of squadrons of SU-27s, what made them think that the Chinese wouldn't take at least one of them apart and reverse-engineer a fighter plane that was better and more advanced that what they could make on their own?
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