Chinese media: Russian military equipment uncompetitive
The publication writes that Russia supplied weapons to the above countries in 2013 for 928 million dollars, but by the year 2017 supplies were close to zero.
The Chinese portal, in its article presented by Inosmi, names two problems of the Russian military-industrial complex: the first problem of Russian weapons is competitiveness, which is supposedly based on Western developments and components developed in the West. An example is the Catherine thermal imager used on tanks T-90, and which is produced in France. Under the imposed sanctions, the portal writes, Russia will not be able to buy Western components, and the installation of domestic analogues raises the price and reduces the efficiency of the equipment.
The second problem of the Russian military industrial complex, the article states, is a very low level of investment in new technologies and software development in Russia, and is connected, again according to the portal, with a low level of export of Russian weapons and equipment compared to previous years. As an example, Venezuela is given, which Russia was unable to supply “a new type of landing craft”. As a result, Venezuela decided to purchase a Chinese infantry fighting vehicle for amphibious operations on the VN-18 coast.
Inexpensive and efficient weapon the authors of the article noted that the weapons of modern Russia are mostly uncompetitive, therefore Russia is losing the arms market, which China occupies, which produces high-quality equipment based on domestic components.
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