Russia takes the hit for helping China develop weapons

Failed arms sales and Chinese-copied weapons have hit Russia hard in the face of its arms cooperation program.

According to statistics published by Kommersant newspaper, 70% of weapons produced by China are copied from Russia, this is the conclusion about China's controversial weapons development program.

Chinese Type 96 tank.

Famous products that China copied from Russia created a fierce dispute between the two countries about intellectual property rights, causing Russia to suffer bitter consequences.

And the J-11B fighter is the most controversial copy between Russia and China after Russia provided a license to produce the Su-27 fighter to China under the name J-11.

However, after completing less than 100 of the agreed 200 aircraft, China unilaterally terminated the contract and copied it into the J-11B.

The successful "processing" of the Su-27 into the J-11B has created many premises for China to continue developing its controversial defense industry. China has purchased 76 Su-30MKK fighters and 24 Su-30MK2 fighters from Russia. China then created a twin version of this fighter into the J-16.

By June 2012, the J-16 fighter model appeared outside the Shenyang aircraft factory as expected by world military analysts. It is difficult to distinguish the difference between Russia's Su-30MKK and China's J-16.

The next copy that made Russia suffer bitter fruit was the HQ-9 long-range air defense system. Initially, this air defense missile system was developed based on the American Patriot air defense missile that China learned from a secret third party. However, the features of this system were quite limited and did not meet the standards of modern air defense missiles.

By the 1990s, China had reached an agreement to purchase two battalions of S-300PMU1 long-range air defense missiles. This is currently the world's top air defense missile system. Immediately, Chinese engineers dissected the S-300 for research.

And the HQ-9A variant that copies the S-300 has appeared, turning it into a "Russian - American" hybrid. The HQ-9 A has the same shape as the Russian S-300 in terms of launch vehicle and missile, while it uses the same guidance style as the American Patriot.

In addition to copying directly from prototypes obtained from Russia, China is also accused of copying through industrial espionage.

According to Military Factory, after a long time of failing to convince Moscow to sell Su-33 carrier-based fighters, China has gone to Ukraine to "beg" to sell the T-10K model of Su-33 that it is holding.

In a time of economic hardship, China offered Ukraine a huge sum of money for a fighter jet that was lying idle. It was hard for Ukraine to refuse it. Not far from the Russians' calculations, not long after, a prototype of a Chinese-made carrier-based fighter appeared under the name J-15.

Although there has been much information that Russia is supporting China in developing the Type 054A warship, Moscow has never admitted it.

Next up is China's controversial missile replica, albeit a mock-up, the M20 tactical ballistic missile system.

First appearing at the IDEX-2013 defense exhibition in Dubai, UAE, the M20 tactical ballistic missile immediately attracted special attention from the world's military community.

The M20 attracted public attention not because of its superior technical characteristics, but because it strangely resembles the Russian 9K720 Iskander tactical ballistic missile.

Although the Chinese manufacturer claims that the M20 is a product of its own research and manufacture, although it has only appeared in model form, it shows that Chinese manufacturers are ready to launch a "made in China" Iskander variant.

Russia has been hit hard in the international arms market by these copied versions of its weapons. In 2011, Konstantin Makienko, deputy director of the Russian Center for Analysis of Strategies and Technologies, said that Russia’s tank export industry had been severely affected by China’s controversial weapons program.

Even China's VT1A battle tank has "overtaken" the T-90 to enter the Moroccan market. The African country's Ministry of Defense has ordered 150 VT1A tanks from China. This is a bitter pill for Russia, because the VT1A is an improved tank based on the Russian T-72 platform and has features equivalent to the T-80UM2.

In addition, China is actively promoting the export of the low-cost Type 96 tank and in the near future there will be a Type 99 designed based on the VT1A/MBT 2000. In other words, China can fully meet the needs. If you want a cheap tank, please buy the VT1A or the Type 96, and if you want better quality, please buy the Type 99.

According to Dat Viet Newspaper