Russian arms sales to China in size from $ 4 billion / year down to $ 1.5 billion-year / year

Russian arms sales to China in size from $ 4 billion / year down to $ 1.5 billion-year / year


Core Tip: According to the Russian military news network reported on 16 January, Russia's strategic and technical analysis centers researcher Vasily - card application that, in the foreseeable future, China will lose the Russian arms export market dominance. In the medium-term prospects, the Russian military-technical cooperation will be only an average size of 10-15 billion dollars.


Data Figure: China imported from Russia modern destroyers.



Data for: PLA Su-30MKK fighters.

According to the Russian military news network reported on 16 January, Russia's strategic and technical analysis centers researcher Vasily - card application that, in the foreseeable future, China will lose the Russian arms export market dominance. In the medium-term prospects, the Russian military-technical cooperation will be only an average size of 10-15 billion dollars.

Russia's strategic and technical analysis centers researcher card application on January 13 in an Interfax Military News Agency as saying: "can be confident that China will continue to be Russia's military-technical cooperation in the field of key partners, each year about the scale of cooperation 10-1500000000 U.S. dollars in the foreseeable future, will maintain this position. "

Card application that, according to Rosoboronexport data, China's total orders represent about 4% of corporate orders, including military-technical cooperation between the two countries in 2011 was somewhat active. China and Russia only in the aviation field the size of the new contract more than $ 1 billion. Sino-Russian military-technical cooperation from the 1990s began to actively develop, Russia is actively sell all kinds of weapons was the most modern equipment, breaking the Soviet Union banned the export of advanced weapons and confidential ordering. China was the first purchase of the latest Su-27MK fighter-type, S-300PM and "Doyle" air defense missile system. China is very popular S-300 system, a large number of procurement and procurement in the 21st century, the most modern of S-300PMU products. Military-technical cooperation between the two countries peaked in 2000, Russia's arms exports to the size of nearly 40 billion U.S. dollars.

Russian experts said, in fact, China is Russia's newest weapons all have basic needs met. Now China is still Russia's advanced air defense systems, Mi-17 helicopter, the anti-ship helicopters and aircraft engines interested. Russian military and technical cooperation in the future, in addition to direct sales of weapons and military equipment samples, and the supply of spare parts related products, the two sides can expand in importance and modern weapons and equipment research and experimental design in the long-term cooperation, joint research and development of new weapons . However, the topic is too sensitive, and Russia has not yet been an official representative of the joint R & D cooperation comment. Card unicast: "R & D in this area said the sample not only the development of new weapons and equipment related, such as air defense missile system, also created the underlying technology in addition to a range of areas of China's defense industry equipment and material supply, the difficult to assess the scale of this cooperation. "