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Please do not show your incompetence. In order to help a country is usually given a long-term loan for a small percentage. China refused to give Russia a loan, furthermore China at all UN resolutions related to the interests of Russia, voted for own Chinese interests.
What are you even talking about? Russia received $11.6 billion in loans from the Chinese for their non-financial sector alone, which is significant considering that almost every major Western body has emplaced economic sanctions on Russia and their foreign investments are falling faster than a rock in water. China also signed a $25 billion deal with Moscow, allowing Russian companies to borrow at lower interest rates than could Chinese domestic comapnies. You simply will not see that kind of financial relationship if China was simply going "by her own interests", especially with Russia's crumbling credit rating (which is below investment grade, by the way).
Thus, there is nothing to do with "helping Russia" in our relations. Relations between Russia and China are determined only by their own interests and nothing else.
And it is in the interest of the Chinese to see an economically-healthy Russia.
The contract value for the Russian economy is insignificant. At the same time, this contract together with other contracts allow the manufacturer to continue new projects like fifth-generation fighter and others in comfortable conditions.
There is no doubt that Russia will continue to pursue military projects, but whether they will be procured if the same numbers as when Russia had not undergone an economic recession is another question.
As for China's interest, I've expressed my opinion, you do not agree with it, but with no convincing arguments. Currently I see only one fully completed 100% Chinese project of military aircraft. It is the one that is produced in cooperation with Pakistan.
You are free to believe what you wish. It has no bearing on the reality that the Chinese have simultaneously developed multiple fighter families with top-of-the-line subsystems and the potential to take a portion of the export pie that had been previously dominated by the US and Russia.
The changes in airframe to Chinese clone of Yak-130 affect only the addition of afterburners and appropriate account of this fact in the settings of the electronic control system (FBWCS). Is it possible that these changes are reflected in the performance of the aircraft for the worse? May be, but we do not know because we have not seen its aerobatics, as well as aerobatics of Chinese "Flankers" even with current engines.
First of all, the L-15 isn't a "clone" of the Yak-130; the two shares many aerodynamic motifs but the trend exists in almost all major engineering projects. The term is referred to as "form following function". As stated before, the fact that the Chinese can export the L-15 without drawing any Russian ire suggests that there is not much of a relationship between the L-15 and Yak-130 than previously imagined.
"extent to which Yakolev helped with the design" of L-15 is a production documentation, which is openly stated in Russian Wiki.
Yes, because Wikipedia is the cornerstone of reliability when it comes to flight.