TAIPEI — Russia is denying Chinese media claims thatMoscow and Beijing have signed agreements to sell Russian-made arms andmilitary technology to China, including 24 Su-35 multirole fighter jets andfour Amur-class diesel submarines.
During a recent visitby Chinese President Xi Jinping to Moscow from Friday to Sunday, no discussionstook place regarding “military-technical cooperation” issues, the ITAR-TASSnews agency reported Monday. This was in response to an earlierreport by China’s CCTVon the same day.
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“The Kremlin is officially denying even discussingarms trade during Xi’s visit,” said Vasiliy Kashin, a China military specialistat the Moscow-based Centre for Analysis of Strategies and Technologies (CAST).“In Russia-China relations, specific arms trade contracts are almost neverdiscussed by the top leaders, just the general approaches.”
Another defenseindustry source in Russia said there are strong reservations about going forwardon the memorandum of understanding signed in December to explore the sale ofthe twin-engine Su-35s and Amur submarines to China.
Chinaintentionally violated intellectual property right (IPR) agreements when itcopied and manufactured Russia’s Su-27 fighter as the J-11B, according toRussia.
俄罗斯方面认为，俄罗斯苏-27的中国版歼11b是对知识产权协定的故意侵犯。
In 1995, Chinasecured a production deal with Russia to build 200 Su-27SKs, dubbed the J-11A,for $2.5 billion for the Shenyang Aircraft Corp. In 2006, Russia canceled thedeal after 95 aircraft when it discovered China had reverse-engineered thefighter and was secretly manufacturing an indigenous copy, the J-11B, withChinese-made avionics and engines.
“It no longer will seek to directly reverse engineereverything it buys, but maybe adopt parts of the platform for other projects integrate into domestic designs,” he said.
“中国已不再试图逆向工程所有的进口产品，而更倾向于吸收进口项目的平台并将其同本土产品整合。
There also areconcerns China wants access to the Su-35’s Saturn AL-117S engine, which isoutfitted on the T-50, a prototype of Russia’s fifth-generation Sukhoi PAK FAstealth fighter.
However, Kashinsaid the risks of selling the Russian engine to China are negligible.
但卡辛表示这样的担心毫无必要，“买到了引擎不代表你就能拷贝它。”
“An engine cannot be copied by obtaining a sample,” he said.Li said he couldenvision Chinese aerospace engineers studying the aircraft’s engine and thrust-vectoringfor future inclusion, as well as the Amur sub’s air-independent propulsion, butit will still be more than a decade before China will stop having to orderengines to replace “worn-out ones,” as it has been doing with the J-11 and J-10fighters.
“It always takes afew years before they can make a domestic alternative,” Li said.
“他们通常会在本土化方面花上几年时间”李说。
Kashin cautionsthat a Chinese attempt to copy the Su-35, as they did with the Su-27, would bemore difficult, “because this time, our Ukrainian ‘brothers’ cannot help themby selling the Chinese all the technology they lacked for a handful of dollars.I think the Amur situation will be generally the same.”
”Ukraine has beenaccused of selling China former Soviet defense technologies, but it has noaccess to information regarding newer systems, such as the Su-35 and Amur.
乌克兰曾被指责向中国出售前苏联科技，但乌没有接近更新的武器系统的渠道，比如苏35和阿穆尔潜艇。
“The Amur ultimateyisn’t a strategic submarine, and as Russia’s interests in the Far East are notyet that ambitious, they can afford to sell them to China,” Li said. “Howbetter to keep the U.S. pivot off their backs?”
没有就没有呗，没有自己造
