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From: anthony@cs.uq.oz.au
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Subject: Re: Su-27 sell to China?
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Date: 10 Apr 91 23:28:51 GMT
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In <1991Apr10.024556.21439@amd.com> chana@jacobs.cs.orst.edu (Andy Chan) writes:

>From: chana@jacobs.cs.orst.edu (Andy Chan)

>The main reason that China is buying the Su-27's from the Soviet Union is for
>the PLAN (People's Liberation Army Navy, yes the NAvy is a branch of the Army
>in China.) to put on the new carrier it is building.  The price is expected

China is building a new carrier ? Could you tell me where is the reference
for this.  I found it very surprising that China could afford to build a
carrier.  Even conventional carriers cost billions so how can China afford
to build a carrier.  Furthermore building a carrier requires a lot of high
tech, well at least the electronics, there are communication equipments,
radars.  A lot of it would have to be imported from probably the US.

All these bring me to another question, what's the status of the Soviet
carriers ?

>Another problem is that the Soviets want to keep spare parts and training in 
>Russia, while China wants to manufacture their own, so they will be less
>dependent on the Soviet Union.

Also it has been past practice for China to manufacture older generation of
Soviet systems and sell them to third world countries at very low prices.
The Soviet need all the foreign currency they can get and I don't think
they be keen on any competition.

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