Russia has given up on fifth-generation Chinese fighters - no other country wants to buy them
The Russian side seriously undermined the credibility of aircraft manufacturers from the PRC by not allowing the start of production and sale of the fifth generation Shenyang FC-31 fighters. If initially it was planned to purchase up to 80 fifth-generation fighters of this model from China, now even such a partner of the PRC as Pakistan refused to purchase the FC-31. As it became known, the key circumstance was the refusal of Russia to supply China with AL-31 engines, without which the development of the FC-31 fighter would stretch for several more years.
“Only limited help can be expected from the Russians. Russia will sell new batches of AL-31s, especially in a modernized version, only if China acquires additional Su-35s. The United States, like Russia, fears that the sale of engines could give a powerful impetus to China's efforts to develop power plants, ”said a Western analyst.
Earlier, China made a key stake on the export of FC-31 fighters, which was facilitated by the low cost of these combat vehicles (about $ 50 million per unit - approx. Avia.pro), as well as the ability to use them as carrier-based fighters. Nevertheless, the situation points to the fact that China, most likely, will have to acquire another rather large batch of Russian Su-35 fighters - from 24 to 36 combat vehicles.
Especially to its citizens.
We also need to take into account the deployment of a powerful grouping of Chinese ground forces along our borders. Who are they going to fight with? It is clear that it is impossible to cross with tanks not from Taiwan where it is impossible. I don't know if our leadership has forgotten the story with Damansky, but I remember and will never forgive. We must deal with China with extreme caution. They can easily "throw their tail" and go into the camp of our enemy the Americans, with whom they maintain the closest trade relations that cannot be compared with ours.
The time has come to contain China, because this may be fraught with a sharp increase in the military power of the PRC for us. As the saying goes, friendship is friendship, but check as Reagan once used to say.
Alexander, just don't talk about the "rotten" cheese, because you will be split up - you are either young and did not live in the USSR, or a foreign agent ... The melted cheese of the USSR was a world snack, with which no McDonald's in principle could would argue. If someone sold rotten meat, then from under the counter and carefully processed - because the time for an attempt to poison the working people could be very considerable ... Therefore - do not powder the brains of those who did not live in the USSR.
Russia owes nothing to anyone.
They have been releasing this engine under license for a long time, so the engine no longer belongs to us. The problem is the engine resource is small. At 21, China announced that they would make a resource comparable to our motors. Wherever you touch, it's debatable everywhere!
It's better to sell whole fighters than just engines. Moreover, if these engines are used to compete with us in the fighter market.
Publication date: 2021-04-01
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Controversial. The Chinese are still friends) They trained the Afghan mujahideen, supplied them, constant provocations on the border of the USSR. And now the Siberian forest is being cut down) It is high time for our people to turn their face to the European world. I’m against the sale of weapons to other countries - we need to sell high-tech products for peaceful use.
Selling engines from which Russia makes a profit and maintaining jobs for the population is good. If we stop selling, we will lose profits, jobs, unemployment and hungry families, and we will also lose and offend a trading partner. And we want to be friends with China! Who cares? Or is the article all a lie?
China has two types of 5th generation fighter. And both of them do not have their own 4th generation engines, let alone the fifth. They all fly on our Al
China has a lot of enemies around. There is someone to work with. There is Korea, Japan and the USA supporting these countries. Hands will not reach Russia soon. All territorial claims against Russia were all settled in favor of China
China has its own definition of generations. They have a common fifth, goes like a fourth
The Chinese have a different designation for aircraft generations. So there may well be 4 of them in Europe.
And what do you think, for whom China needs a lot of fighters, after all, America is far away, there are not so many enemies around China, and it needs all this to seize territories, and where it is aimed, one can only guess.
since when did the Chengdu J-20, which even according to the Chinese nomenclature ranks as a fourth generation fighter, suddenly became the fifth? Compare performance characteristics. By the way, 20 pieces are pre-production samples.
Give me a link. I think you're lying.
And I suggest you ask:
"A matter of time": will China create an engine for a fighter
Relatives breathed from childhood from socialism, when rotten processed cheese was tied to 2 cans of condensed milk in a store.
this is complete nonsense
China has other fifth-generation fighters, namely, the J-20 have already made more than 50 of them
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