China wouldn't accept selling them only 1 though.
Either a package of >3 052 destroyers or nothing at all
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Either a package of >3 052 destroyers or nothing at all
Chinese military enthusiasts offer an "interesting" idea：Provide all modified Sovremenny class to the Russian Navy.
These ships are of large tonnage and their weapon systems have been upgraded.The Russians can at least get some large tonnage "054A“.
Well Sputnik itself is a Russian company with multiple language sites.
The Sputnik article claims the source as magazine. But I could not find the original article in their web site after some searching.
What China can do is sell them 10x 054A, a repair/production capability, and all their upgraded and repaired Soveremmeny classes back in new condition.
In exchange they can sell 200x Chinese customized Ka-52 and a production capability for it and its powerful turboshaft engines. China can provide them with interoperable parts and electronics for customization that they can also buy themselves to later upgrade their own Ka-52s.
Fair trade. They get strategic naval assets, China gets strategic heavy helicopter assets which China needs.
Money should not be as issue as Russia already has 2 to 1 trade advantage over China and that advantage will increase as China maybe only able to sell complete De-Westernize products.
the second thing is technology change. The large Surface combat ships were designed for area defense of fleet which is no longer possible against competent rivals threats are saturated, longer range, smaller , lower altitude.
they added this 9100M smaller missile and increase the missiles per TEL to 12 for 9M96E2. this new smaller missile will increase missile load out further.
We must remember that, in this new international order, oil, gas, gold, coal, iron, and grain, are the new monies!
But many things are not so optimistic.
Chinese military enthusiasts do not think the Ka-52 is better than the Z-10.The most important reason is simple: They don't believe in the production speed of Russia.
The purchase of Su-35s is very unsatisfactory,the delivery speed is too slow, wasting a lot of valuable time.
The contracts of IL-76 and IL-78 can in fact be considered as breach of contract.So whether China is willing to sign such large-scale procurement contracts is a question,the ka-52k is not a helicopter that can be supplied immediately.
.Post 2010 Russia spend massively on Aviation and improving industrial capacities in heavy engineering products. The quality will be much improved than soviet times. They already supplied 46 to 49 Ka-52K to Egypt. They also exported Mi-28NE to Irak, Algeria and now Uganda.