aimarraul
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sorry to tell you some secret,we already produced 4 prototype of carrier-based j-11 based on that "outdated" prototype .There are two reasons why Russia didn't sell the SU-33, firstly China ordered too few which was not worth it for Russian to restart the production lines and secondly, China enitially only orderd 7 (big red flag) then when Russia said no China bumped the order to 14, but that's still suspicious because China wanted 50 carrier fighters, Russia was afraid China would build their own SU-33 and call it something else or take the knowledge from the SU-33 and incorporate it into a Chinese aircraft, thus taking business away. And that prototype SU-33 is rediculously outdated, so it does China very little.
Not only did China break the contract but China's business practices was unethical.
The Chinese ordered a set number of Russian fighter, then they cancelled about half and started puting in their own avionics aka most likely reversed engineer Russian component. The contract stated that China can not install their own avionics, but they did, even worse Russia lost money because of it.
and you forgot to mention that most components we got are repainting crap,it's not the first time russia offer something different from the contract,and i believe india and lots of other customers also had the same experience