"Russia Has Completed Delivery Of 24 Su-35 Fighter " Topic
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Tango01  | 19 Apr 2019 12:50 p.m. PST |
….Jets to China "Russia has completed the delivery of 24 Sukhoi Su-35S (NATO reporting name: Flanker-E) multirole fighter aircraft destined for service in the People's Liberation Army Air Force (PLAAF), Russia's Federal Service for Military-Technical Cooperation (FSVTS) told local media on April 16. "In compliance with the contract, all the Su-35 planes have been delivered to the foreign customer," FSVTS was quoted as saying by TASS news agency. A FSVTS official also confirmed the delivery of the fighter aircraft to China in a statement to IHS Jane's on April 16. The official did not reveal when the last batch of aircraft was delivered…."
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| 28mm Fanatik | 19 Apr 2019 1:34 p.m. PST |
Now China will take some of them apart in order to reverse-engineer and produce their own unlicensed copies. They will focus on the engines in particular, no doubt. Maybe I'll add this nice 1/72 HM diecast finished display model to my collection:
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| Thresher01 | 19 Apr 2019 8:32 p.m. PST |
Yep, that was the holdup issue on the sale, for quite some time. Hope they remembered to swap out the high-tech engines for older, much lower rated ones. Seems the Chinese are having a devil of a time reverse-engineering the ones they've gotten access to thus far. |
| Lion in the Stars | 19 Apr 2019 11:52 p.m. PST |
Yeah, the Chinese are not doing well on reverse-engineering high performance jet engines. Their copies of the Russian engines seem to have about 1/10 the lifespan before they need to be pulled out and worked on, and the US engines have about 10x the lifespan of a Russian engine. |
| Thresher01 | 20 Apr 2019 12:57 p.m. PST |
I'm sure Boeing will be able to help them out with that, much to my objection. |
| StarCruiser | 21 Apr 2019 10:11 a.m. PST |
The engine life thing might have something to do with this: link |
| Lion in the Stars | 21 Apr 2019 8:02 p.m. PST |
Wouldn't surprise me, Starcruiser. |
| Gaz0045 | 23 Apr 2019 4:30 a.m. PST |
No doubt the French will offer up some drop in jet engines sooner or later……. |
| Lion in the Stars | 23 Apr 2019 4:39 p.m. PST |
Unlikely, they don't have anything in the same dimensions or power class. |
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