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- From: Fengxi Zhou <fengxi@prancer.eche.ualberta.ca>
- Subject: China to coproduce Mig-31
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- Organization: University Of Alberta, Edmonton Canada
- Date: Mon, 16 Nov 1992 17:21:22 GMT
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- From Fengxi Zhou <fengxi@prancer.eche.ualberta.ca>
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- According to a recent issue of Air International, China is to coproduce Mig-31
- with Russia. The first move will be assemble 24 examples from pre-manufactured
- sets and then coproduce further 48 examples. Some of them will be delivered
- back to Russia. The rest is presumably going into PLAAF service. The same
- sources (as well as other sources) also indicated that PLAAF has aquired at
- least 12 Su-27 with further deliveries in the pipeline.
-
- Now some questions. Mig-31 is a dedicated high altitude, high speed interceptor.
- It has a long range, a good radar, has some sort of mini-AWACS capabilities, but
- poor agility and low altitude performance (it is a derivative of Mig-25). Since
- China is getting Su-27s, which are potent interceptor and counter air fighter,
- have good (better?) radar, superb maneuverability and much more flexible, why
- buy Mig-31?
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- Also, Taiwan is to aquire 150 F-16A/Bs (not the USAF spec C/Ds) which are
- more or less a good weather dogfighter (gun+sindwinders, no Sparrows or AMRAAMs)
- Do you think they are enough to counter Su-27s? I understand there has a lot of
- discussion about Mig-29 vs. F-16/18, etc, on the net, but Su-27 was never
- mentioned which IMHO is a better fighter than Mig-29. Seems Russians agree
- this because they have stopped taking more Mig-29s but Su-27s are still being
- delivered in quantity and latest version (designated as Su-35) is to enter
- service around 1995, not the Mig equivalent (Mig-33?).
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