标题: No Sale of Su-35 or S-400: Moscow to Beijing + TW Interested in F-35 [打印本页] 作者: choi 时间: 5-29-2012 10:39 标题: No Sale of Su-35 or S-400: Moscow to Beijing + TW Interested in F-35 J Michael Cole, Russia’s ‘No’ Aids Taiwan. Taipei Times, May 30, 2012 (available now). http://www.taipeitimes.com/News/ ... 12/05/30/2003534083
Quote:
"The Russian-language Kommersant business newspaper reported earlier this year that Beijing last year had requested 48 Su-35s, valued at more than US$4 billion, as well as an unspecified number of S-400 systems.
"At the heart of Moscow’s reluctance to release the defense articles to China are the aircraft’s engines and advanced passive electronically scanned array (PESA) radar systems, the defense magazine Kanwa reported in its latest issue.
My comment:
(a) This seems to be an exclusive. I can not find anything similar in the English-language Web.
(b) Quotation 1 alludes to
Russia Close to Sign Su-35 Fighter Deal With China. RIA Novosti, Mar 6, 2012 http://en.ria.ru/world/20120306/171780246.html
("Chinese Chengdu J-10 fighter is based heavily on the cancelled Israeli Lavi fighter demonstrator, the Shenyang J-11 is a replica of the Su-30 Flanker-C, and the Chinese/Pakistani Chengdu FC-1 iuses Russian engines and other technology from the MiG-29. The J-15 is a Chinese-built derivate of the Sukhoi T-10K-3, a carrier-borne fighter prototype which China acquired from Ukraine")
(c) Sukhoi Su-35 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sukhoi_Su-35
(NATO reporting name: Flanker-E; a derivative of the Su-27 'Flanker,' and was initially known as the Su-27M; Status In development, in production)
(d) IAI Lavi http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IAI_Lavi
(lavi is Hebrew for young lion; Manufacturer Israeli Aircraft Industries (IAI); First flight Dec 31, 1986; Status Cancelled Aug 30, 1987;
Number built 3 prototypes; "According to some sources China was in possession of a Lavi during development of the J-10 [5]")