[url]http://news.usni.org/2015/05/05/two-chinese-warships-enter-black-sea-reports-link-visit-to-possible-chinese-frigate-sale-to-russia#more-12475[/url]
[QUOTE]Two People’s Liberation Army Navy (PLAN) guided missile frigates entered the Black Sea on Monday in a [B]first [/B]for the PLAN, according to photos of the ships crossing the Bosporus Strait obtained by USNI News.
The pair is bound for the Russian naval base at Novorossiysk ahead of a planned visit from Chinese president Xi Jinping to Moscow to commemorate the end of World War II in Europe , according to Russian state media reports.
The ships will arrive at Novorossiysk by May 9, according to press reports.
Last week, Chinese officials said the pair of 4,000-ton Type 54A Jiangkai II frigates — Linyi (574) and Weifang (547)• — would drill with Russian ships in a first ever bilateral exercise in the Mediterranean in May as part of a exercise schedule agreed to last year.
The frigates, assigned to the PLAN’s North Fleet, and an oiler were previously part of the international anti-piracy patrols off of the Gulf Aden.
While the exercise — Joint Sea 2015 — is part of growing military-to-military and political cooperation between Moscow and Beijing, they could also point to more arms sales between the two countries — specifically the frigates.
A report over the weekend in Taiwanese paper China Times, characterized the the flotilla visit as an opportunity for China to show off its ships and spin it into a potential ship deal for Russia to purchase some number of Jiangkai II frigates, based off an analysis of Russian defense watcher Alexander Mozgovoy.
For the Chinese, a naval ship building contract with Russia would be a boon to its emerging arms export trade [B]which sold three frigates to Algeria, a missile defense system to Turkey and unmanned aerial vehicle sales to Africa[/B], according to a March report from the Swedish Stockholm International Peace Research Institute think tank.
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Yeah!
Okay? What's wrong with that? I don't see why you highlighted that they sold guns to Algeria Africa and turkey?
UAV*
*made in china
But really they don't export heavy weaponry like Russia, China is mainly small arms and manpads as well as some cloned high tech stuff like drones from israel from what I've read
Clearly China is planning on liberating Chinese nationalists in Crimea.
Why is it suprising that China sells weapons to other countries..? Almost every country does it, and if they do not do it in the open, you can bet your ass that some scratched firearms are running through private gunrunners.
Like seriously. This would be onpar with saying that the United States making it's own RPG-7 for "export" is bad news.
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