[TigerLikesRooster]

Hmm... Chicom is now doing to Russia what they did to Western corporations. Import their products and share technology, coming up with their own cheaper copy and taking away those corporation's market share. Startin with domestic markets.

Now world will have overcapacity of conventional weapons, half of which could be from China.

There is an age-old way of eliminating surplus weapons. Using them against one another. However, millions will perish. All this is happening in the midst of the worst economic crisis in several decades. This is a deadly mix.

[lentulusgracchus]

Import their products and share technology, coming up with their own cheaper copy and taking away those corporation's market share. Startin with domestic markets.

Well, no. The newer systems are not being imported. That's the point of the article. Falling-out over copying? The Chinese co-produce the Almaz S-300 PMU/SA-10/SA-N-6 "Grumble" under license.

The Russian MKB Fakel S-300 PMU2 "Favorit" was not part of the deal. That is the missile that supposedly can intercept hypersonic targets travelling at 6000 mph and altitudes up to 100,000'.

The Almaz/Fakel S-400 "Triumf"/SA-20 is a smaller missile compatible with the launchers used for the S-300/SA-10 system, with the advantage that a container/launcher holding 4 of the S-400 can be loaded into a single tube of the four-tube S-300/SA-10 erector-launcher. Systems integration and interoperability have been built in. This is an extremely potent missile system with performance claimed up to the limits of the ABM Treaty and an effective range of about 70 miles, compared to (d/o variant) 90-120 miles for the original S-300PMU/SA-10.

The discontinuation of production of the older, 90's models of the SA-10 series was prompted by Russian defense retrenchment during the later 90's.

Cold link:

http://www.fas.org/nuke/guide/russia/airdef/s-400.htm

http://www.fas.org/nuke/guide/russia/airdef/s-300pmu.htm

[Tallguy]

Correct. China isn't going to buy anything that they can't produce themselves. On the things that they DO buy they will want licensing & co-production agreements so that they can go into immediate development of a domestic-version. And they are also not above an out-and-out rip-off of foreign technogy where they don't have the rights to produce or re-sell their own make.

Russia is being take to the technological cleaners.