What military technology have we obtained from Ukraine?

Although today’s Ukraine has become the “object of ridicule” among us Chinese people, in fact, whether it is oligarchs, politicians or comedians in power, before or after the Orange Revolution, Ukraine’s relationship with us is still quite OK. For example, at the beginning of this month, the new Ukrainian President Zelensky, who had played the role of "Ukrainian President", quickly stated on the day he took office that China is a great country, and Ukraine attaches great importance to developing cooperative relations with China in various fields. Deeply cooperate with China’s “One Belt, One Road” policy.

Indeed, Ukraine has been China’s reliable partner for more than two decades after the disintegration of the Soviet Union (although it was once threatened by the United States to terminate cooperation, it finally figured it out), and China Ukraine has also been regarded as an important importing country.

Moreover, unlike Mao Xiong, who only sells us the weapons themselves, Ukraine has actually transferred and exported related technologies to China, and never asked for exorbitant prices.

Early in the separation activities after the disintegration of the Soviet Union, in line with the principle of "distribution to whomever is there", Ukraine, the heavy industry base of the Soviet Union, inherited approximately 35% of the Soviet Union's property. This even caused a large number of Russian heavy industries to be unable to operate for a while after Ukraine became independent due to the loss of supporting enterprises located in Ukraine. Especially in terms of ships, it can be said that Ukraine has concentrated the essence of the former Soviet Union. Three of the six large-scale military shipyards in the former Soviet Union are located on the Black Sea coast of Ukraine, including the Black Sea Shipyard, which is the only one capable of manufacturing aircraft carriers (of course, after Crimea was taken back by Russia, two more were left).

The most representative weapons technologies we introduced from Ukraine are as follows:

1. Il-78 tanker (after Russia broke the contract, we turned around and bought it from Ukraine second-hand), which is also one of the latest weapons introduced.

It is no exaggeration to say that aerial refueling capabilities are an important criterion for measuring whether an air force has strategic strike capabilities.

As we all know, the biggest advantage of aerial refueling is that it significantly increases the range and combat radius of fighter aircraft. In particular, tactical aircraft can play their strategic role after being supported by tankers.

In many local wars of the US military, tactical aircraft of various colors, with the support of tankers, entered deep areas of the enemy to perform combat missions. The Israeli Air Force tactical aircraft, the younger brother of the United States, also staged many textbook-like long-range attacks with the support of tankers. For example, the bombing of the Osirak nuclear reactor in Iraq in 1982, and the 2,000-kilometer bombing of the PLO headquarters in Tunisia in 1985.

However, for a long time, the shortcoming of lack of aerial refueling capabilities has severely restricted the projection of China's air and sea power and the range of combat air patrols. No matter how advanced the fighter aircraft is, they have no endurance and their performance can only be greatly reduced. Now, we have the IL-78 tanker (although it is second-hand), which can ensure that after we gain air superiority in the first island chain, we can easily deter enemy land and sea targets in the second island chain. For example, after our country's J-20 fighter jets have tankers, they can go to places such as Guam to carry out strategic cruises or combat missions. This deterrence can be imagined.

2. T10-K carrier-based prototype, used by China to develop the J-15.

At the beginning, China originally planned to introduce aircraft carrier-based aircraft Su-33 from Russia at a high price, but it tried hard to reach an agreement with Russia. At this time, China turned its target to Ukraine, and the two sides quickly reached an agreement happily. Ukraine packaged the Su-33 including prototypes, drawings, parameters and other information at a very favorable price. By the way, it also introduced aircraft carrier deck facilities and carrier-based aircraft. Simulation training facilities and other technologies were sold to China. If it weren't for Ukraine, our J-15 would have taken off from the Liaoning ship, and I don't know how many detours it would have to take.

3. AI-222-25 turbofan engine, used to equip the L-15 trainer aircraft;

4. 6TD2E high-power engine, used in the MBT jointly developed by China and Pakistan -2000 tanks;

5. UGT-25000 gas turbine, used in the construction of 052B and 052C destroyers;

6. Qinghai Lake supply ship;

7 , Varyag aircraft carrier;

8. Snow Dragon icebreaker.

It was purchased from the Kherson Shipyard in Ukraine in the early 1990s. It was a semi-finished product at the time. China bought it at a low price of more than 10 million US dollars, and then carried out large-scale transformation according to actual needs;

9. PL- 12 semi-active radar warheads for air-to-air missiles;

10. The "Commission-B1E" automated electronic warfare system can implement anti-interference against US military electronic warfare aircraft, so that the United States will no longer dare to build products around China at will. Second-rate.

What’s even more valuable is that in addition to equipment exports, Ukraine has also withstood pressure from the United States and even Russia (you know this), and has insisted on transferring military technology to China for decades. A large number of experts Visiting the site in person and providing step-by-step guidance, this is a very honest and down-to-earth country.

Of course, this is also based on Ukraine’s own interests. After all, any party that comes to power must develop the economy, and the military industry is Ukraine’s most internationally competitive field. Throughout the Soviet era, Ukraine had been providing key parts and components to the Soviet Union. However, after the disintegration, Ukraine and Russia gradually drifted apart and even opposed each other. Ukraine's face sank and it refused to engage in any form of arms transactions with Russia, leading to conflicts between the two parties. The military industry has been hit hard.

However, although Ukraine has lost the big market of Russia, it has ushered in the opportunity of large-scale cooperation with China - China has launched the "double introduction project" ("introducing technology and talents"), starting Connect with technology and talents from Ukraine and CIS countries.