That fact is, that in last 10 anniversary China is the largest buyer of Russian production of military assignment, including in the field of an aeronautical engineering. However becomes quite obvious, that gradual saturation of the Chinese market by the Russian military engineering and arms should lead to displacement of accents in the policy of military-technical cooperation spent by the Chinese management cooperation with Russia.
At the present stage of development Russian-Chinese cooperation the Chinese party{side} shows the greatest interest to cooperation with Russia in the field of transfer{transmission} of military technologies, and also to realization joint research and development works on a number{series} of projects of defensive character. Moreover, orientation on realization of joint development with the Russian enterprises in the field of high technologies and, in particular, in the field of an air science and engineering, began to receive character of the steady tendency in China.
Among the Russian air design offices the special rule{situation;position} in the field of cooperation with China takes “OKB Yak “, having a unique technological reserve in such areas, as pilotless flight vehicles, trainer and combat-trainer airplanes, and also civil ближне-and среднема-гистральные aircrafts.
As the general director “OKB Yak” Oleg Demchenko has informed, within last three years the Russian firm under the order of Chinese corporation AVIC-2 (Aviation Industry of China/Second Group) rendered consultations and prepared for an engineering note under the concept supersonic L-15 which development is conducted in the Peoples Republic of China.
This airplane should replace become outdated{out-of-date} К-8 and can compete in Chinese market UTS to airplane FTC-2000, developed by corporation AVIC-1.
According to O.Demchenko, the Russian firm assisted in an estimation of the concept supersonic УТС and executed technological tracking this project.
” We are satisfied by cooperation with the Chinese party{side} under project L-15 and we can note very advanced level of aviation specialists of the Peoples Republic of China.
It is not excluded, that corporation AVIC-2 can continue cooperation with us under the program supersonic УТС in which realization the Chinese experts consider also our experience on creation of subsonic airplane Yak-130 “, – Oleg Demchenko has noted.
Developed by the present{true} time in the world the system of preparation of military pilots is based on use during training of three classes: the initial, main{basic} and increased preparation.
The Chinese party{side}, having staked on reequipment of national Military-air forces by modern multi-purpose fighters, requires now in УТС the initial and increased preparation.
Unlike the concept subsonic УТС the increased preparation received in the Air Forces of Russia, in China have gone{send} on a way of creation supersonic УТС this type. ” In the Russian Air Forces approximately 90 % of all volume of the main{basic} preparation of military pilots make flights on subsonic aircraft which operation is cheaper, than supersonic airplanes.
On переучивание with subsonic aircraft on supersonic warplanes during the increased flight preparation 10 % of necessary school hours ” are necessary only, – Oleg Demchenko has noted.
Experts{Auditeurs} believe, that for aircraft the increased preparation the capacity of the Chinese market can be rather significant{sizeable}. At the same time, in their opinion, in immediate prospects this volume hardly will exceed 200 supersonic machines of type L-15.
« Aerospace Complex », Vol.3, N4, 2004
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