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Posted on 01/15/2003 10:37:50 AM PST by Stand Watch Listen
Russia's Sukhoi corporation plans to sign a new contract with China for the supply of 24-28 Su-30MKK multirole fighters, the third such agreement since 1999.These aircraft have an enhanced capability in the use of air-to-surface armament, specifically against seaborne targets, including Kh-31A (NATO reporting name: AS-17 'Krypton') supersonic anti-ship missiles, sources in Moscow told Jane's Defence Weekly.
The first Su-30MKK contract involved 38 platforms, all of which have been delivered. The second deal, signed in 2001, also involves 38 aircraft.
Each agreement was worth between $1.5 billion and $1.8 billion. The third-batch agreement was hoped to be concluded before the end of last year (JDW 21 August 2002).
Commenting on Sukhoi's activities in 2002, general director Mikhail Pogosyan told a Moscow press conference that the company had manufactured and delivered "over 60" combat aircraft abroad during the year. India and China are Sukhoi's main customers. Pogosyan refused to provide details of the company's exports.
However, other sources say the total included: 19 Su-30MKKs delivered to China by the Komsomolsk-on-Amur aircraft manufacturing association (KnAAPO); 10 Su-27UBKs delivered to India by the Irkutsk Aviation Plant (IAPO); 10 Su-30MKIs delivered by the IAPO to India and eight upgraded Su-24MK bombers delivered by the Novosibirsk aircraft manufacturing association to Algeria. Other Su-27 variants were delivered to members of the Commonwealth of Independent States.
Sukhoi's order book currently exceeds $12 billion in value, Pogosyan said. Independent analysts say this may be bolstered by the potential sale of 14-16 Su-30MKM fighters to Malaysia and a number of Su-30 fighters to Vietnam.
The company captured a 40% share of the world's combat aircraft export market last year, these analysts note, outperforming Boeing and second only to Lockheed Martin. Pogosyan noted that the company's annual budget has remained stable over the past three years at more than $1.3 million. Employees number around 47,000, representing 9% of Russia's aviation industry.
Sukhoi is due to begin an upgrade programme this year involving Russian air force Su-27s. A prototype model conducted its first two flights on 27 December at Komsomolsk-on-Amur.
KnAAPO deputy general manager Boris Bregman told reporters that the upgraded aircraft's avionics incorporate elements from the Su-30MKK.
The upgraded Su-27 flight-test programme is due to last six months, after which inductions will begin with Russia's air force.
Russia's Sukhoi corporation plans to sign a new contract with China for the supply of 24-28 Su-30MKK multirole fighters, the third such agreement since 1999.
These aircraft have an enhanced capability in the use of air-to-surface armament, specifically against seaborne targets, including Kh-31A (NATO reporting name: AS-17 'Krypton') supersonic anti-ship missiles, sources in Moscow told Jane's Defence Weekly.
The first Su-30MKK contract involved 38 platforms, all of which have been delivered. The second deal, signed in 2001, also involves 38 aircraft.
Each agreement was worth between $1.5 billion and $1.8 billion. The third-batch agreement was hoped to be concluded before the end of last year (JDW 21 August 2002).
Commenting on Sukhoi's activities in 2002, general director Mikhail Pogosyan told a Moscow press conference that the company had manufactured and delivered "over 60" combat aircraft abroad during the year. India and China are Sukhoi's main customers. Pogosyan refused to provide details of the company's exports.
However, other sources say the total included: 19 Su-30MKKs delivered to China by the Komsomolsk-on-Amur aircraft manufacturing association (KnAAPO); 10 Su-27UBKs delivered to India by the Irkutsk Aviation Plant (IAPO); 10 Su-30MKIs delivered by the IAPO to India and eight upgraded Su-24MK bombers delivered by the Novosibirsk aircraft manufacturing association to Algeria. Other Su-27 variants were delivered to members of the Commonwealth of Independent States.
Sukhoi's order book currently exceeds $12 billion in value, Pogosyan said. Independent analysts say this may be bolstered by the potential sale of 14-16 Su-30MKM fighters to Malaysia and a number of Su-30 fighters to Vietnam.
The company captured a 40% share of the world's combat aircraft export market last year, these analysts note, outperforming Boeing and second only to Lockheed Martin. Pogosyan noted that the company's annual budget has remained stable over the past three years at more than $1.3 million. Employees number around 47,000, representing 9% of Russia's aviation industry.
Sukhoi is due to begin an upgrade programme this year involving Russian air force Su-27s. A prototype model conducted its first two flights on 27 December at Komsomolsk-on-Amur.
KnAAPO deputy general manager Boris Bregman told reporters that the upgraded aircraft's avionics incorporate elements from the Su-30MKK.
The upgraded Su-27 flight-test programme is due to last six months, after which inductions will begin with Russia's air force.
Economic Snapshots
Snapshot for November 20, 2002.
Surging China imports devastate U.S. industries
Trade deficits usually shrink during an economic downturn, but China's unfair trade practices have caused the U.S.-China deficit to soar despite the U.S. recession of the past two years. Between 1989 and 2001, though U.S. exports to China more than tripled, imports from China increased eightfold, causing a whopping twelvefold surge in the U.S-China trade deficit. So far this year (through September, the latest month for which data are available), the deficit has continued to grow and is projected to reach $100 billion, an all-time record.
The U.S.-China trade relationship is of growing importance to overall U.S. trade. Exports to China grew from 1.6 percent of total exports in 1989 to 2.6 percent in 2001. Imports from China now comprise 9 percent of all U.S. imports, up from 2.5 percent in 1989. China alone now accounts for more than one-fifth of the total U.S. trade deficit.
Contrary to promises by business and government leaders that increased trade would benefit workers on both sides of the Pacific, the opposite is actually occurring. China's export industries are associated with gross violations of human rights, including forced labor,1 and even while China's economy is growing and becoming more productive, minimum wages are stagnant or decreasing in major manufacturing centers.2 Meanwhile, in the U.S., growing trade deficits are resulting in closed factories and lost jobs in every industry and state. Between 1992 and 1999, growing U.S. trade deficits with China eliminated more than 683,000 jobs in the U.S. economy; EPI economists forecast the loss of an additional 872,000 U.S. jobs due to surging trade deficits with China by 2010.3
1. See U.S. Department of State. 2001. 2000 Country Reports on Human Rights Practices. Washington, DC: U.S. Department of State.
2. Legget, K. and P. Wonacott. 2002. "Burying the Competition." Far Eastern Economic Review. October 17.
3. Scott, Robert. 2000. "China and the States." EPI Briefing Paper. Washington, DC: Economic Policy Institute. http://www.epinet.org/briefingpapers/Chinastates/chinastates.html.This week's Snapshot by Adam S. Hersh and EPI Research Co-Director
The US at last has got on with the F-22 program.
Imagine if congress hadn't blown 58 billion on ag welfare to the likes of ADM.
If the tens of billions in waste, fraud and abuse in Medicare and HUD were spent on F-22s.
Whatever the Chinese are, they are not a) our friends; b) our allies; c) our partners.
We are the Main Enemy. War is inevitable. The sooner the better.
That seems to have escaped Jennings, Rather, Brokaw, Carter, et al.
WASHINGTON TIMES.com: "CHINA SHIPS NORTH NORTH KOREA INGREDIENT FOR NUCLEAR ARMS" by Bill Gertz (ARTICLE SNIPPET: "North Korean procurement agents succeeded in buying 20 tons of tributyl phosphate, known as TBP, a key chemical used to extract material for nuclear bombs from spent nuclear fuel, said officials familiar with intelligence reports of the transfer.") (121702)
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