Invisible aircraft, rockets and shells of the USSR. What weapon China can put in
The fact is that Beijing announced in 2017 about the increase in the efficiency of the army. Its complete re -equipment should be completed by 2035. The transfer of Russia's accumulated stocks, artillery and missile systems for China is not a simple event. The event will immediately notice and start the sanction mechanism. Military expert Igor Koziy focuses on numerous Washington threats about the consequences of such steps.
"During the meeting of Xi Jinping and Vladimir Putin in Russia, there were not even hints at the supply of weapons. Hypothetically any weapons from China can come to Russia. Today, Moscow is lacking a lot of weapons through economic blockade. systems, "he says. The American Analytical Center Rand gives the most important importance for the development of ballistic and winged missiles for the NVAC. Some copies potentially threaten the U. S. advanced airbase.
The Dunfen-41 intercontinental ballistic missile affects 14,000 kilometers. "There are now about 1,400 ballistic and hundreds of winged missiles in China from a handful of ballistic missiles with ordinary weapons in 1996," the organization's experts calculated. Rand modeled the capabilities of Kaden Air Force Rockets on the Japanese Island of Okinawa. Several Chinese rockets can be displayed.
The newspaper Washington Post, citing several American top officials in February, reported that China's power was thinking about sending lethal weapons to Russia in the form of artillery shells. The army of the Russian Federation quickly depletes their stocks, making up to 20,000 shots a day. Ammunition with Soviet calibers-122 and 152 mm for artillery, 82 and 120 mm for mortars and 125 mm tank ammunition-are considered.
There are Chinese shells of 122-mm and 300 mm for rocket launchers (RSZV), says Oleg Katkov's focus expert Defense Express. "These shells in China can be labeled at the request of the customer. Chinese armed forces have direct copies of Soviet howitzers. For example, 122-mm howitzer PL-86 is an exact copy of the Soviet D-30 caliber 122 mm and its modernized version of PL-96 is already a modernized.
"Copies are made at such a level that the details of the Soviet and Chinese howitzers can be collected alone and it will work. And if you remove the distinguishing marks from the Chinese copy, it will be very difficult to distinguish it from the original," Katkov says. According to the expert, Chinese infantry fighting vehicles (BMPs) are visually different and deliver them to the circumference of Western sanctions is almost unrealistic.
Made in China BMPWZ-501-the prototype of the Soviet BMP-1 came into service with the elite 38th Army Group of NVAK in the 1990s, stationed under Beijing. It is difficult to confuse the ZBD-86 car with the Soviet BMP-2. In this embodiment, Chinese manufacturers did not fully copy the counterpart, but added their own. "The more complicated weapons, the more obvious differences. It is more difficult to hide them for the transfer of Moscow.
The most likely scenario now is the transfer of copies of Soviet military equipment and ammunition. It is worth add Workshops for their production for the needs of military Russian, " - said Defense Express expert. The British Royal Joint Institute for Defense Research (Rusi) wrote about integrated China's air defense (IADS). Multi-level protection systems include a number of ground and air sensors, as well as the landscapes of the Earth-Air class.
One of these systems is HQ-9, analogue of the Russian anti-aircraft missile complex C-300. But Chinese IADS is less integrated than Russian, but more distributed and mobile. It consists of a long-range ground HQ-9 and SA-21 and multiple medium-range SACs. Rusi analysts believe that the fifth generation of the US Air Force is the F-35 multifunctional fighter jets. "China has passed the 30-year path of copying technologies-pirate, illegal.
But if you take a Russian C-300 and a Chinese counterpart, the components of the latter will be better," Katkov adds. Exports HQ-9 worries the competitors of official Beijing, as this complex is cheaper than Russian C-300 air defense systems, said in the article The National Interest. Pakistan was one of the first to buy the Chinese HQ-9 system, which was known in October 2021.
In addition to rockets, more than 3 million drones are produced every year in China, one of the world leaders in the development of UAVs. In February this year, correspondents of the German edition of Der Spiegel learned about the intentions of the Russian military and Chinese drones of the XI'an Bingo Intelligent Aviation Technology to talk about the mass production of drones for the Russian Federation.
This apparatus can carry a warhead weighing up to 50 kg and is similar to the Iranian UAV-Kamikadze Shahd-136. According to military experts from Germany, the Chinese agreed to produce and test 100 prototypes of the ZT-180 drone and provide them with the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation by April 2023. According to Der Spiegel, XI'an Bingo, it is not opposed to send Moscow components to establish mass production of drones - about 100 pieces.
Expert Igor Koziy says that it was called the exemplary location of two enterprises - one near Moscow and the other - in the Urals. "Whether these plans will come true while it is unclear. The story of Iran may be repeated - the" loud -language mopeds "will be supplied to distract the Ukrainian air defense forces and the launch of false goals. The main task of the Russian Federation is to establish its production of MPC through third countries, to bypass sanctions," he said . .
The London International Institute for Strategic Studies described how China is ahead of the US in the production of invasion fighters. According to John Chipman's CEO, the Chinese Fifth Generation J-20A Chinese aircraft is already ahead of F-22 Raptor production for US aircraft. "The pace of China's defense industry production is multiple. In 2023, the number of J-20A fighters may be greater than the fifth generation aircraft aircraft, F-22," Chipman said.
British experts say that China will produce more aircraft due to China's defense budget in 2022 by 7%, about $ 16 billion. "Modernization of the NVAK will continue, including the addition of aircraft carriers, difficult frigates, destroyers and a new Ballistic Missile of Julang (JL) -3 for the Type Submarines 096. The projectile can have a range of more than 10 thousand km," experts add.
Military expert Mikhail Zhirokhov says focus that China will not go to direct supply of missiles, aircraft and submarines - the event will instantly impose trade sanctions. "Rockets cannot be supplied through other countries, their use in Ukraine will be calculated immediately. All this will go to Washington and Brussels. Components, ammunition, even small arms - yes, and tanks, APC or other heavy weapons - no. They are waiting for this [to lay Beijing with sanctions], " - concludes Zhirokhov.
Experts interviewed are convinced that China and North Korea will send the maximum ammunition of Soviet caliber and drones at this stage of the war. However, most of the Russian army requires components and mechanisms for establishing its own production. Explosive substances can also be brought from third countries - China, DPRK and Iran. "China supplies to Russia critical components, perhaps a military class. Oleg Katkov.
Defense Express estimates the level of reserves and the combat equipment of the Chinese MIC to the level of self -conduct of the Third World War. "Beijing launched a flywheel of re -equipment - huge money is invested in military infrastructure. Transition to digital platforms on armored vehicles - there is a new level that is not achievable for Russia. If we talk about hypothetical options, Moscow can get everything - aircraft, aircraft carriers, ships.