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Made-in-China airplanes may undermine sales of Russian high quality jets
Published: 05 July, 2010, 22:52
Edited: 22 July, 2010, 06:29
TAGS: Arms, Russia, Prime Time Russia, China, Big deal
Russian and Chinese weapons manufacturers are clashing head on within the international arms market as China’s new fighter jet seems to be a cheaper imitation of the Russian original.
The argument is threatening to put on hold a multi-billion-dollar engines sale contract between the countries concerning the delivery of some hundreds Russian-made RD-93 engines needed for Chinese-Pakistani fighter jets called the FC-1.
The deal is facing opposition from Russian aircraft manufacturers, such as Mikhail Pogosyan, the head of the MiG and Sukhoi aviation holding, who said that the FC-1 is extremely close, if not the same, as the Russian-made MiG-29. Pogosyan claimed that FC-1 is a direct competitor to Russia's MiG-29 and the deal would incur losses for the Russian manufacturers.
A source quoted by the Kommersant newspaper said there are significant price differences keeping the US$10-million Chinese jets much cheaper than a $35-million Russian MiG-29.
Also, representatives from Russian Defense Export said that there was nothing wrong with re-exporting, which is in accordance with the decision of the Russian government. They added that there is no law that says there should be any agreement with Russian manufacturers citing the example of RD-33 that was re-exported to Egypt and was given permission by the Federal Service for Military and Technical Cooperation in 2007. These engines are sold to Bangladesh, Algeria and Saudi Arabia.
Ruslan Pukhov, the member of the Defense Ministry Public Council, disagrees with the officials.
“If we follow this line of thinking, it will be very difficult to explain to a country like China that, after all these years of re-exporting, Russian-made engines are all of a sudden going to stop and make it a little bit more difficult,” Pukhov told RT.
05.07.2010, 22:12
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Chinese are the biggest Copy CATS in the whole world and their goods substandard.
It must be a copy from Russia because Chinese airplanes have two wings if you could compare the images from the two, FC1 and MiG29. Even though this TV program does not kindly gentlely let us have a tiny little glance at Chinese FC1, we must say that the Chinese airplanes are copies, as an external truth, no matter how they look like. Whenever there is cheaper Chinese product, it must be a copy. No originality! Even in the history, the invention of paper, printing, gun power, ..., are all copies from Western world. Admit this and never ask why! This is the only democratic intelligence we should have.