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CHINA IS SAID TO PURCHASE FIGHTER
JETS FROM RUSSIA
[Posted 1 August 2002]
Reprinted from Moscow Times, 30 July 2002
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-- John Flaherty
Headline: "China Eyes 30 Sukhoi Fighters"
By Lyuba Pronina
Staff Writer, Moscow Times
[Russian] State arms dealer Rosoboronexport is near a deal to sell its top client China another batch of Sukhoi fighter jets, a top defense industry official said.
Givi Dzhandzhgava, president of Tekhnocomplex, which supplies avionics for the Sukhoi's Su-30 series, said on the sidelines of the Farnborough International Airshow in England last week that China will buy around 30 Su-30MK2 naval fighters, on top of the 80 Su-30MKKs it bought in 1999 and last year.
Dzhandzhgava declined to put a price tag on the deal, but analysts estimated it to be worth at least $1.2 billion.
Neither Rosoboronexport nor Sukhoi could be reached for comment Monday.
The Su-30MK2 is a modified version of the Su-30MKK. The biggest difference between the two models is that the Su-30MK2 is a naval striker equipped with X-31A anti-ship missiles, according to Valentin Kovinsky, chief designer at the Ramenskoye Instrument-Building Bureau, which is part of Tekhnocomplex.
"It has been through the tests and is ready to be sold," Kovinsky said.
The Zvezda-Strela Center in Korolyov makes the X-31A.
Konstantin Makiyenko, deputy head of the Center for Analysis of Strategies and Technologies, said the deal would be "major" for Komsomolsk-on-Amur Aviation Production Association, the maker of the plane.
He said the deal would be "major" for China, too. "The Americans won't be roaming in the Taiwan Strait [after this deal]," he said.
Makiyenko said buying 30 more Sukhoi fighters would give China a total of around 400.
China took delivery of 26 Su-27SK/UBKs in 1992 and another 22 in 1995. Then, in 1996, China signed a contract to produce200 Su-27SKs under license.
Makiyenko said the Chinese could be following a similar pattern, calling clinching a licensing contract for the Su-30MKK "a logical thing to do."
(c) Moscow Times 2002 - Reprinted for Fair Use Only
http://www.themoscowtimes.com/stories/2002/07/30/041.html
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