Dungeness
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It was apparent when he's named himself "Dung", but I made that post for people who do not troll, especially Indians who believe the Chinese don't import anymore.
What a quality post from a senior member, and you have big nerve to call other troll? By the way, one must have full of dung in the brain to associate "dung" with my name here.
You do realize China bought the S-400 too.
China still buys a lot of things like this from Russia even today. It's just not reported. Even a high profile system like the Su-35 is completely unreported in China, so forget about something like the Buk.
http://www.janes.com/article/63500/china-develops-longer-range-hq-16-sam-variant
In India, we have a policy where any imported weapon retains its foreign name. In China, the imported weapon is renamed. People don't know that the HQ-16 is simply a customized license produced Buk.
This is the 'indigenous' HQ-9's TEL.
This is the S-300 TEL exported to Iran.
In China the news would have gone, "China produces indigenous HQ-9."
If India had done this, the media would have reported it as, "India license produces customized S-300 called the S-300I." But we also call it indigenous production.
You tell me what's the difference.
Chinese HQ-9 must be different enough to win Turkey's tender when competing with Russian's S-300. There must be some reason that Russians were not complaining.