News source from Aviationweek. Seems like China is developing closer military relationship with Iran.
What other military equipment China can sell to Iran ?
Iran will turn to China instead of Russia to acquire an advanced air defense system after relations between Iran and Russia hit rock bottom, the official Iranian news agency PressTV reported. For years Iran has been trying to purchase the S-300 anti-aircraft missile, which is considered to be one of the most advanced systems available on the market and would dramatically increase Iran's air defense capabilities against any attacks on its nuclear installations.
HongQi-9/FD-2000 system
The S-300 surface-to-air missile system, which can track targets and fire at aircraft 75 miles away, features high jamming immunity making it harder to incapacitate the system electronically, and is able to engage up to 100 targets simultaneously.
Teheran will now turn to China for the HongQi-9/FD-2000 system which combines elements "borrowed" from the Russian S-300 and the American MIM-104 Patriot system, according to the Iranian news agency. Although experts estimate that the Chinese system does not perform as well as the Russian S-300, it still presents an effective addition to bolster the Iranian air defense, which is virtually obsolete against any modern air attack on its vital strategic installations. There is no unclassified information regarding the effectiveness of western countermeasures against the HongQi-9/FD-2000 system, nor against the Russian S-300. There was unconfirmed speculation over possible electronic countermeasures used during the 2007 attack on the alleged Syrian reactor.
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get the fawk outta here. And here i thought Iran was ready to introduce the super next generation "indigenous" Anti air missile systems with capability to bring down the moon.
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"How the hell we know which one is better?Chinese one is a brand new product and Russian one never
combat tested so all is speculation."
with your dickhead logic, would you say that Russian/Chinese/British/french/Indian nuke weapons also speculation and dummy as they are not combat tested ????
also with your dickhead logic ... because F-22 is not combat proven .. then F4 phantom (which is compat proven) better than F-22 ?
We know which one is better from the specs published/stolen and testing .. got it ?
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ROFL, ChinaWHITE the Chinaman is now also a grammar nazi. Oh how jolly well good on you, old chap!! How about some tea and crumpets!!
Fkin WHITE wannabe..LOL. I CAN HAS CHIGABURGER NAO?!!? lol...
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Is is technically true that since both China and Russian missiles are almost similar they have more efficiency in jamming these missiles (I meant each others)?
That might be a reason why India never opted for S-300 system and instead is opting for a different system with Israel....
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we are not talking about insignificant india here, what india can do anyway, simply can not afford buying S-300 system, let alone developing similar system
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