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Russia turns over Backfire production to China

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From Want China Times

 

[excerpt]

 

Russia turns over production of long-range bombers to China

Staff Reporter

2012-06-15

15:14 (GMT+8)

 

A move by Russia to sell its production line of Tu-22M3 long-range bombers to China for US$1.5 billion to China was confirmed by the US-based US-China Economic and Security Review Commission two years ago and the bomber's name will be changed to the Hong-10, reports the state-run China News Service.

Might we see these in the HCDB sometime soon? This sounds like a game changer to me.

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Might we see these in the HCDB sometime soon? This sounds like a game changer to me.

 

Yes, for sure, if it looks like it will happen for real.

 

I would be grateful for links to further reports and indications of armament.

 

Here's another related article from the USNI blog:

 

Everything old is new again

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