American-built aircraft is understood to have emerged tops in technical and flight evaluations of India’s effort to procure primary trainer aircraft. I hear that the Hawker Beechcraft T-6C Texan-II (in IAF colours above) is on top of the list of five basic trainer aircraft that were put through field trials during October-December last year as part of the Indian Air Force’s competition for 181 (75+106) aircraft.

From Livefist.

The country;s links go beyond military. Severing relations over a Su-27 copy is not worth it. One would hope consequences were introduced indirectly though…

I dont think the almost exact similarity (atleast externally) can be done without original documents or blueprints.Most probably they have been sourced through either of these means …

1.Industrial espionage – It has been said that chinese industrial espionage system is the most effective in the world currently..
http://overwatchreport.com/issue/the-overwatch-report-april-2011/article/chinese-industrial-espionage

2.The chinese hire lot of ex – mig/sukhoi engineers with lucrative salaries and make them work for chinese aircraft manufacturers.

3.When Russia was down at the economic front during the 90s , the chinese might have bought the documents directly from Russia.The fact that Russia continue to do roaring business supplying engines , radars etc for those “pirated” copies may show that the chinese may have russian authorisation at some level.

They are OEM manufacturers, sometimes its not cost efficient for the companies to
manufacture every component themselves.

for example?

TChina went ahead and made their own line on its own.. and likely have created a version with updated avionics.

“Updated” is a relative term.

Enough.Waiting for US-Pakistan lovefest to restart any-day now….

That was another one:cool:

I wasnt talking about the one in Wuhan..there were comments about this very one.;)

IN Tu 142 prevents pirate attack on Chinese vessel..

http://frontierindia.net/indian-navy-tu-142m-aircraft-helps-to-repel-pirate-attack-on-chinese-merchant-ship

I cannot believe you useless worthless good for nothings attending airshow after airshow with vip passes and all , didnt ever think of carrying an inch tape and measuring the nose diameter to put an end to this back and forth debate based on highly accurate tangential extrapolatory differential geometric photographic evidence 😀