how exactly do we copy? Does America let us take a look? If we were just copying why did we scrap plans to build a 10,000 ton ship some 25 or so years ago.
America is embargoing us and Russian ships are no where near their quality.
At best, we know more or less what the American ships can do and what ours should be able to do, that's about it.
We put billions into research, you can even see it from the type 52 series, new technology each step of the way, if we just copied, why do we need to do that, why not just one time and perfect.
Your inferiority complex has blinded you, if you ever decide to look at things objectively, you would see, there is no way to copy, there are thousands of systems on a ship, it's not a doll that you can just look at the outside and copy. These things are so complicated, even the length of the hallways are an important part.
Hence Vietnam can't even build a 1000 ton corvette, while we can build a 12,000 ton DDG and a 10,000 coast guard ship, cause we poured hundreds of billions into research and decades of research.
That's interesting cause Russia doesn't have AEGIS. Nor is ours actually AEGIS. So Russians designed a missile for a system they don't have and used on a ship that also don't have the same system?
It's a missile not a windshield wiper, you can't just stick whatever you want on it. Too many things needs to be taken into account before it can be even considered.
Also even Americans don't go the copied route for our ships anymore. Since you like Uncle Sam so much perhaps you should follow suit.
