CHINA-RUSSIA: SUPPLY OF SU-35 FIGHTERS
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China’s People’s Liberation Army Air Force (PLAAF) will start receiving its first Sukhoi Su-35 Flanker-E fighters from Russia later this year. A Russian military source told TASS that "Supplies of fighter jets will start in the 4th quarter of this year. For now, everything goes according to plan." (Comment: Russia contracted to deliver twenty-four Su-35 fighters worth more than US$ 2 billion to China late last year. The contract, according to reports, is to be filled within three years and production of a modernized S-108 communications system has already started. The contract does not allow China to build the SU-35.)
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