China Soon to Become World’s Top Fighter Exporter

[beijingwalker]

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China Soon to Become World’s Top Fighter Exporter

Mar 1, 2012 at 5:36 PM

According to Russian military news report, China will move up from its current status as the world’s number three exporter of fighter jets to the top spot in unit sales within the next three years. China has booked orders for 112 fighter jets for overseas customers to be delivered between 2012 and 2015. During the same period, U.S. will export 110 fighters while Russia will come in third place with 109 deliveries. In terms of the dollar value of fighter jet sales, the U.S. is likely to remain on top

The famous F-35 fighter jet which made by the U.S. are estimated to cost about $156 million apiece over the life of its production run while the F-16 has been priced at around $165 million. The Chinese and Russia fighters are priced considerably less in order to be competitive. The aging J-7 fighter was China’s staple export fighter during the Cold War era, with sales of about 500 mainly to middle-east countries and North Korea. The J-10 is made entirely from domestically sourced components. In future, China will redesign its advanced J-10 fighters as multirole combat aircraft and sell them to more developing nations for a cheaper price.


Competition has been heating up between Russia and China, which was once its top customer. After China sold a number of fighter jet to Pakistan, a leading client for fighter exports, Russia stopped providing China with the engines used in that fighter in order to prevent China from taking over its market. We believe this will not stop the cheap China fighter jet to continue dominate the military world.

[anon45]

China Soon to Become World’s Top Fighter Exporter

Mar 1, 2012 at 5:36 PM

They will be selling to countries that might have bought Russian. Russia's gonna be having some real competition soon if this piece can be believed.

[kalu_miah]

j10 is great, how about Chinese flankers, will the Russians allow the Chinese to make an indigenous Su-35? The Russian one is $45-65 million, if the Chinese can make one and sell it cheaper then, it will sell good I think. May be the Russians will be happy to get some royalty from these sales, for their design work, while they let the Chinese do the manufacturing on the cheap. That sounds like a good plan, if only Russians could trust the Chinese with their best technology.

[WS-10 Engine]

We need to export these babies to our boys all over the world.

[rai_kamal]

In future j-10, PAKFA, J-20 and F-35 are going to rule the export market..
Pakfa will lead due to two big customers russia and india..
J-20 will have to compete with pakfa in export market, pakistan will probably be the first customer but others countries will look at both of them...
About F-35, it has lost the game with its price tag.. only the JSF countries are the customers, may be they can add one or two otherwise it is losing the game..

[rcrmj]

In future j-10, PAKFA, J-20 and F-35 are going to rule the export market..
Pakfa will lead due to two big customers russia and india..
J-20 will have to compete with pakfa in export market, pakistan will probably be the first customer but others countries will look at both of them...
About F-35, it has lost the game with its price tag.. only the JSF countries are the customers, may be they can add one or two otherwise it is losing the game..

no, not with J-20, it is made very clear that China wont export J-20 as U.S wont export F-22
but another Chinese 5th gen fighter SAC J-21 (F-60) are aimed for international market

[Killuminati]

Man F-35 is so expensive just wow.

[beijingwalker]

China will become the biggest exporter of everything in 10 years time.

[Paan Singh]

Best of luck to end users and china

[Cherokee]

China will become the biggest exporter of everything in 10 years time.

even Fuel ??

[anon45]

China will become the biggest exporter of everything in 10 years time.

economically impossible.

[dott]

economically impossible.

maybe for some time they can be expoters. but the speed at which china is progressing they will turn from expoters to impoters soon.

[LeGenD]

China needs to develop its own engines for its aircraft to compete with Russia. Otherwise, Russia can monopolize the market situation in its favour.

China will become the biggest exporter of everything in 10 years time.

Not possible.

Their are many in the world who are not interested in 'Made in China' tag.

[beijingwalker]

even Fuel ??

maybe not everything,but currently China is the biggest exporter in the world,and the share is getting bigger every passing year.

[WS-10 Engine]

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China needs to develop its own engines for its aircraft to compete with Russia. Otherwise, Russia can monopolize the market situation in its favour.


Not possible.

Their are many in the world who are not interested in 'Made in China' tag.

Yet they all buy made in china.