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1st Jul 2013, 12:56
Jane's Missiles & Rockets
Fighter talks may afford Argentina advanced Chinese missile systems
Copyright © IHS Global Limited, 2013
Fighter talks may afford Argentina advanced Chinese missile systems
Record Infohide
Publication:Jane's Missiles & Rockets
Author:Richard D Fisher Jr, Paris
Gareth Jennings, London
Section:SPECIAL REPORTS
Last posted:2013-06-28
Images:1 image (https://janes.ihs.com/CustomPages/Janes/DisplayPage.aspx?DocType=News&ItemId=+++1579052&Pubabbrev=JMR#blockImage)
Argentina may be in a position to field advanced Chinese air-to-air and anti-ship weaponry if talks regarding the potential co-production of the Chengdu Aircraft Corporation (CAC) FC-1/JF-17 multirole combat aircraft come to fruition.
Speaking at the Paris Air Show in mid-June, officials from Fabrica Argentina de Aviones (FAdeA) toldIHS Jane's that the company has had multiple discussions with Chinese officials over co-producing the fighter in Argentina. Although the FC-1/JF-17 is already jointly built with Pakistan Aeronautical Complex, FAdeA officials stressed that they are dealing solely with the Chinese in this matter.
While discussions are said to be far from over, if realised they will open up a wide panoply of Chinese weapon systems to Argentina that include the 100 km-range Luoyang SD-10A (PL-12) active radar-guided beyond-visual-range (BVR) air-to-air missile (AAM) and the very high speed CASIC CM-400AKG anti-ship missile, which has a range of 180-250 km...
Non-subscriber extract from a longer Jane's piece on the ramifications of ongoing Argentine-Chinese talks for local production of the JF-17.
Time to rethink the threat to the Falklands perhaps?
Fighter talks may afford Argentina advanced Chinese missile systems
Copyright © IHS Global Limited, 2013
Fighter talks may afford Argentina advanced Chinese missile systems
Record Infohide
Publication:Jane's Missiles & Rockets
Author:Richard D Fisher Jr, Paris
Gareth Jennings, London
Section:SPECIAL REPORTS
Last posted:2013-06-28
Images:1 image (https://janes.ihs.com/CustomPages/Janes/DisplayPage.aspx?DocType=News&ItemId=+++1579052&Pubabbrev=JMR#blockImage)
Argentina may be in a position to field advanced Chinese air-to-air and anti-ship weaponry if talks regarding the potential co-production of the Chengdu Aircraft Corporation (CAC) FC-1/JF-17 multirole combat aircraft come to fruition.
Speaking at the Paris Air Show in mid-June, officials from Fabrica Argentina de Aviones (FAdeA) toldIHS Jane's that the company has had multiple discussions with Chinese officials over co-producing the fighter in Argentina. Although the FC-1/JF-17 is already jointly built with Pakistan Aeronautical Complex, FAdeA officials stressed that they are dealing solely with the Chinese in this matter.
While discussions are said to be far from over, if realised they will open up a wide panoply of Chinese weapon systems to Argentina that include the 100 km-range Luoyang SD-10A (PL-12) active radar-guided beyond-visual-range (BVR) air-to-air missile (AAM) and the very high speed CASIC CM-400AKG anti-ship missile, which has a range of 180-250 km...
Non-subscriber extract from a longer Jane's piece on the ramifications of ongoing Argentine-Chinese talks for local production of the JF-17.
Time to rethink the threat to the Falklands perhaps?