Moscow will sell Su-35 fighters for $ 4 billion, if the Chinese are obliged not to copy them

Russia and China almost agreed on the supply of PRC 48 Su-35 multifunctional fighters worth $ 4 billion, however, as Kommersant writes, an obstacle to the transaction may be the demand of Moscow from Beijing Legal Guarantees of Refusing Copying of Russian Fighters. Moscow wants to protect itself from a potential competitor in the markets of other countries, but China is in no hurry to give such guarantees.

The Russian side insists on the registration of legal guarantees about the right to intellectual property. “This is really an important condition,” the interlocutor of the newspaper, close to the VTS system, insists.

For the first time about the interest of the Chinese military in the Su-35 it became known in 2008 during the Airshow China Airlines Salon. Then the chief of the Air Force of China, Colonel General Suy Tsilyan visited the stand of the company "Sukhoi", got acquainted with the capabilities of the new multifunction fighter and highly appreciated its flight and tactical and technical characteristics. Su-35 (according to NATO Flanker-E+)-a 4 ++ generation fighter of a large radius of action. It is able to develop speeds up to 2.5 thousand km per hour, the flight range is 3.4 thousand km, the combat radius is about 1.6 thousand km. It is armed with a 30 mm gun, has 12 points of suspension for hinged weapons, including rockets and bombs.