Putin has been very busy lately, he has just returned to Moscow from the UAE and Saudi Arabia, and he has welcomed Iran** to visit and also participated in a conference called the "Russian Foreign Trade Bank Investment Forum".
At the meeting, Putin revealed a thought-provoking news!
During the panel discussion, a Chinese entrepreneur asked him:
What is the current relationship between Russia and China, and will the two countries be able to carry out in-depth and comprehensive cooperation in all fields? Especially in terms of military technology?
Putin replied:
With regard to China, we are ready for in-depth cooperation in all areas, and there are no restrictions on the Russian side, including, of course, military-technical cooperation;
Putin also said that the in-depth cooperation between Russia and China is aimed at building a "new order in the future world", not simply "buying and selling" relations....
That's interesting, isn't it? In fact, in other fields, China and Russia have long cooperated with each other, which is no secret; But in terms of military technology, Putin ** put forward a proposal for in-depth cooperation without any restrictions, and for the first time, it seems?
In the past, there have been many examples of military-technical cooperation between our two countries, and we have benefited a lot, but Great Russia has not given us "stumbling blocks". For example, the Su-33 carrier-based aircraft that we urgently needed back then, Russia just refused to sell it (Russia also put forward conditions that if you want to buy carrier-based aircraft, you must buy at least 50), so we had to go to Ukraine to find it; There is also the "Bison" hovercraft, which Russia also refused**, although now this equipment is no longer very important, but it was still very attractive to us back then, and in the end it was Ukraine that helped us; For another example, the supporting engine of the Su-57 fighter AL-41F, before the special power of the J-20 was not mass-produced, we repeatedly asked Russia to buy this engine, but Russia is very resolute, it is not possible to only sell the engine, if you want to buy it, you have to buy it with the Su-57....
There are many such examples, and we should be grateful to Russia's military technology, after all, without the introduction of the Su-27, we would not have a series of main models such as J-11 and J-16 now. But previously the military cooperation between the two countries was mainly at the level of "transactions", Russia needed money, we needed technology, and that's it.
But now, Putin said that "there are no restrictions on cooperation in the military-technical field", and this attitude has changed a lot, although it is a little unexpected, but it is also reasonable, why?
Because now in Russia's "arsenal", there are fewer and fewer equipment that can make the squadron more and more interesting, and if Russia does not change its degree now, there may be no opportunity to cooperate with China with chips in the future.
Compared with China's and Russia's land, sea, air and space equipment, Russia's conventional ** equipment has been left far behind by the squadron, the J-20 in the air is stronger than the Su-57, the J-16 is not necessarily worse than the Su-35S, the Y-20 carries much more than the Il-76, flies far, and is armed with *** Although there are not as many models as Russia, one Wuzhi is enough....
The army's ** Chinese and Russian-style equipment is getting less and less, the naval aircraft carrier and the 055 drive make Russia envious, the two countries are on par with hypersonic bombs, and China leads the world in the field of unmanned aerial vehicles....
At the conventional level, now Russia can give China no help, but very little.
Now that we've said that, let's take a look at what other technologies are worth introducing in Russia's "arsenal" now?
First of all, it is an aero engine with medium and large bypass ratio! For example, the NK-32-02 and PD-14 engines used in the Tu-160, as well as the PD-35 engine installed in the Russian version of the "Air Force One" Il-76.
In particular, the NK-32-02 engine, which is the latest improved power of Russia's latest strategic bomber Tu-160M2, is also considered to be the standard power of Russia's future stealth bomber PAK DA;
This engine was previously called the most powerful turbofan engine in history, stronger than the F101 mounted on the American B-1B Lancer, with a maximum thrust of 25 tons, and the performance of the latest improved NK-32-02 is not inferior....
If we can take it, then the performance of our Y-20 or the H-20 under development will be better.
Of course, it would be better if the Tu-160M2 could be packaged and "sent" over....
second, the missile warning system; The missile early warning system mentioned here refers to the early warning system of the anti-missile system, in which Russia is technologically advanced;
At present, there are only two countries that have perfected their missile early warning systems, that is, the United States and Russia, and although our country's missile early warning system has reached a certain scale, it will take some time to reach the level of the United States and Russia.
Four years ago, Russia's Vympel NPO said they were helping China build an early missile warning system; But whether this news is true is still unclear.
Thirdly, heavy *** like the Mi-26 ***
However, what we need is not the Mi-26 *** we now have four in the fire brigade), but to use Russian *** technology to develop a *** similar to the American CH-53E or "Chinook" *** to solve the problem of material transportation and flexible transportation on land of amphibious assault ships, which is what we really need.
The fourth, and most important, technology is nuclear-powered submarines. Although our country also has strategic attack nuclear submarines, among the five permanent members, we have to admit that China's nuclear submarine technology is the most backward!
There is a simple way, that is, to look at modern nuclear submarines, especially strategic nuclear submarines, as long as you look at how big their "turtle backs" are, you can roughly judge the performance of this nuclear submarine! The smaller the "turtle back", the more advanced the performance, and the lower the noise, such as the "turtle back" of submarines such as the American "Ohio", Russia's "Boreas", and the British "avant-garde" class, can hardly be seen.
But our 094, the huge "turtleback" is too conspicuous;
The combat power of Russia's "God of the North Wind" class strategic nuclear submarine should be the strongest of all active strategic nuclear submarines at present, although in many rankings the "Ohio" class is also considered the first in the world, but it is about to be decommissioned, and the "God of the North Wind" is in the prime of life, before the "Columbia" class enters service, the "God of the North Wind" leading the world strategic nuclear submarine should have no problem.
If Russia is willing to share the technology of the "Boreas" class strategic nuclear submarine and the "Bulava" submarine-launched missile, then China's strategic nuclear submarine technology can make a technological leap of at least 10 or even 20 years on the existing basis, which is of great significance.
If Russia has any concerns about the technology sharing of the "God of the North Wind", we can also take a step back and bring the "Delta" level technology, it doesn't matter if it is a little "turtle back".
However, such a sensitive and important "big killer" technology, I don't know if it is within the scope of Putin's words....