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[Erich]

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Russia refuses to sell arresters for Chinese aircraft carrier

Construction of the first Chinese aircraft carrier faced new unanticipated problems; it turned out that the former Soviet carrier Varyag was not equipped with arresters, and it is unclear where China could get them. In 2007 news agency Kanwa exclusively reported from St. Petersburg that China would buy 4 arresters designed by Marine Engineering Research Institute and made by Proletarsky Zavod plant which produces all Russian arresters and arresting hooks. Earlier on, China had contacts with this plant purchasing constituent parts for Project 956E/EM destroyers.

Kanwa reported referring to a source in the plant that the Chinese had visited it many times and declared intentions to purchase at least 4 arresters (the source used the term "purchase"). The talks took place in the office of Rosoboronexport; negotiators of Proletarsky Zavod presented their production, and the Chinese requested for technical information.

In 2011 the authoritative source told to Kanwa reporter that the negotiations were facing unexpected problems – Russian defense industry's authorities had decided not to sell arresters for China.
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Representative of Rosoboronexport A. Plotnikov recently told to Kanwa that "China really wanted to buy arresters but we did not sell them". This confirms the assumption that China has not Russian arresters in inventory. In 2006 director of Marine Engineering Research Institute and Proletarsky Zavod plant told to Kanwa reporter that China was about to purchase four arresters and the parties had held several rounds of negotiations. However, in 2011 he said that "we've received an unexpected instruction from Moscow to cut off all contacts with Chinese partners. In other words, we cannot deliver arresters to China as well as other equipment for their aircraft carrier".
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According to A. Plotnikov, there are some old arresters remained in Ukraine, and China could purchase them. However, even if China really buys them such arresters might be used only as presentation samples. Ukrainian air training center NITKA is not equipped with large number of arresters.

Moreover, after buying of Ukrainian arresters and studying their design China would need some time to develop own analogs.

nun gut, die ukrainischen Fangseile können immer noch als Studienobjekte dienen - und möglicherweise kann auch Brasilien etwas mithilfen, so dass die Entwicklung eigener Anlagen "zeitlich abgekürzt" möglich ist.
Da das Problem den Chinesen wohl schon länger bekannt ist, dürften die Fortschritte bei einem "Plan B" inzwischen auch "nicht unerheblich" sein.
Nachdem die ersten Landungen von Flächenflugzeugen auf der Varjag ohnehin noch eiige Zeit benötigen werden ist es kein Beinbruch, wenn die Fanganlagen "jetzt noch nicht" zur Verfügung stehen.

BTW.:
weiß eigentlich jemand, ob die Chinesen bei der guten alten Melbourne ausser dem Schiffsdesign und dem Katapult auch die Fanganlagen studieren konnten?