in the early days of Type 051C and Type 052B programmes etc etc China used to import alot of the systems, next they moved to the next batch then Type 052C came, at this point Chinas imports of weapons dropped to almost zero
back in the days S300, SA-17 Grizzlys, air and sea search radars, fire control radars, naval guns etc were all imported, now hardly anything of the sort is being bought
China has made great move forward in the last few years, infact i would say in the last 2 years, they can make ships for export and also for domestic markets with all indigenous Chinese equipment
the sensors and command and control facilitys on the Azmat Class FAC proved this, there has been very positive feedback from Pakistan Navy on this craft in terms of its advanced bridge and quality of the on board facilitys, I am sure this is a translation of experience gather by China from its own domestic programmes
where will China be 5 years from now? well that is anyones guess
