Re: New JF-17/FC-1 thread
"Russia can't prohibit China to re-exporting RD-engines installed in JF-17 Thunder jet fighters to Pakistan, if this is not stipulated in the contract for the sale of the engines," Makiyenko said, commenting on reports in the Indian Express newspaper that Russia has prohibited China to sell JF-17 jets equipped with Russian RD-93 engines to Pakistan.
Russian exporters should have settled all issues with China and India, which opposes such sales, when the contract was still in its preparatory stage, the expert said.
"Although India is our strategic partner in military and technological cooperation, it has no right to press Russia to stop exporting weapons or hardware, including to Pakistan. All the more so that no such demands are being made to other countries, for example the United States and France, which sell weapons to both India and Pakistan," Makiyenko said.
=========================================================MOSCOW. Aug 14 (Interfax-AVN) - It will be hard to stop China from selling JF-17 Thunder jet fighters equipped with Russian RD-93 engines to Pakistan, even if Russia insisted on it, deputy head of the Center for Strategic and Technological Analysis Konstantin Makiyenko told Interfax-AVN.
"Russia can't prohibit China to re-exporting RD-engines installed in JF-17 Thunder jet fighters to Pakistan, if this is not stipulated in the contract for the sale of the engines," Makiyenko said, commenting on reports in the Indian Express newspaper that Russia has prohibited China to sell JF-17 jets equipped with Russian RD-93 engines to Pakistan.
Russian exporters should have settled all issues with China and India, which opposes such sales, when the contract was still in its preparatory stage, the expert said.
"Although India is our strategic partner in military and technological cooperation, it has no right to press Russia to stop exporting weapons or hardware, including to Pakistan. All the more so that no such demands are being made to other countries, for example the United States and France, which sell weapons to both India and Pakistan," Makiyenko said.