Also, It'll be hard for china to sell the weapons with countries that have great relations with the US, especially countries with US bases, but it can be managed. China sold rockets for Saudis, and china can request the aircraft to stay in a certain area focused for Chineese aircrafts.
So you still will have the problem that the US base can be used as a station to have radars always focused on the aircraft in a very close range, which will be problematic, but maybe they can use certain configuration for the outside of the fighter with EW to limit this danger.
Countries which doesn't have US bases like Egypt and Algeria, and experienced with operation non-american aircrafts, and expects their enemies to have western aircraft are the safest bet.
But still there's always risks, as for instance Egypt operate a lot of US made radars, they of course manage it in a way to limit their risks for their rafales & migs, but still that's a factor. And Egypt signed CISMOA in 2018, and that's a factor which should be examined, even so they didn't get their part of the deal - F-15s and long range A2A missiles - so most likely a lot of this agreement is just activated in a very minimal ways that make Egypt able to do what it does best: "never says no, and never say yes" and make the deal ineffective without cancelling it.
And this risks are known for china, and if want to build a network of allies you need to accept some risks, and most of this countries will not but J-35A right a way, they will buy trainers, J-10C or JF-17, they will modify their bases,...etc. all of that can managed with china to limit risks.
So you still will have the problem that the US base can be used as a station to have radars always focused on the aircraft in a very close range, which will be problematic, but maybe they can use certain configuration for the outside of the fighter with EW to limit this danger.
Countries which doesn't have US bases like Egypt and Algeria, and experienced with operation non-american aircrafts, and expects their enemies to have western aircraft are the safest bet.
But still there's always risks, as for instance Egypt operate a lot of US made radars, they of course manage it in a way to limit their risks for their rafales & migs, but still that's a factor. And Egypt signed CISMOA in 2018, and that's a factor which should be examined, even so they didn't get their part of the deal - F-15s and long range A2A missiles - so most likely a lot of this agreement is just activated in a very minimal ways that make Egypt able to do what it does best: "never says no, and never say yes" and make the deal ineffective without cancelling it.
And this risks are known for china, and if want to build a network of allies you need to accept some risks, and most of this countries will not but J-35A right a way, they will buy trainers, J-10C or JF-17, they will modify their bases,...etc. all of that can managed with china to limit risks.
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