China's copy of Russian military equipment

How is Russia going to deal with China copy-pasting its military equipment.

By only selling previous generation stuff and using the money gained to work on next generation stuff.
The Makers of the S-300V sold parts of the system to the Americans and with the money they made they developed the S-300VM or Antei-2500.
Of course at the time they had no funding at all so it made sense to give away the secrets of a very old system to upgrade it and make it better.

So an active program by the FSB to intercept attempts at stealing blueprints and substituting material with significant design flaws and secret material omitted is probably in operation or should be in operation to deal with this sort of problem.
Everyone is snooping on everyone so saying the Chinese are doing it is silly... everyone is doing it with varying levels of success.

At the end of the day if you sell weapons then you can expect to have to face your own weapons at some stage... and if you are not facing your weapons then you will be facing someone elses.
If you don't sell weapons it does not mean you will face unarmed enemies.

Selling them weapons is just part of the puzzle, integrate your economy with theirs so war is counter productive for both sides and you will not need to worry about it.

North Korea and Pakistan are little direct threat to Russia, though both countries could work against Russian interests at the end of the day the US and the west has been doing that for such a long time I would expect Russia is used to pushing against the current anyway.

But that is the point... they don't sell the same stuff to China and India.

The Su-30MKI is much better than any model Su-30MKK sold to China.

The RD-33s being produced in India are model 3 engines with 9 ton thrust, while the RD-98s sold to China are the old 8 ton thrust earlier models.

The Chinese have S-300, but India doesn't seem to want Russian large SAMs...

They sold stuff to China when any sale was keeping their business alive.

India seems to be able to pretty much buy what it wants... after a 10 year period negotiating the price it seems.

Now that there is a domestic customer buying military material the Russian MIC is not so concerned with exports because of their limited production capacity... of course exports means much larger profit margin but too much production capacity has its own problems.

India is a free country and can certainly turn to the US and UK and France...

When in production an An-124 costs around 120 million an aircraft... and India is paying $500 million for each C-17. Of course with US bribery the negotiations for purchases will be much shorter, but is India really getting a better deal? Politicians in India will suddenly get a lot richer as each deal is signed and the Indian military will end up with white elephants for conflicts with its neighbours... you will be able to use their equipment against China of course... but not for asserting your dominance in the region because no country is allowed a sphere of influence except the US.

Thanks NC, but I would not like that sort of job... the future of an entire country in your hands!

I am sure some would love the power and prestige, but I would just be so worried of making things worse and not improving things for all the people...

Hard to say... all the comments about deals are coming from the makers of the products or exporters of products, and nothing from the Russia government.

I think all we can say is that China is interested, and the lack of governmental denials suggest that under the right terms this could go ahead.

A couple of follow on orders for a total of 200-300 Su-35s would be very profitible for Sukhoi and would likely drive down the cost of the Su-35 for the Russian AF who could order more aircraft too.

I was initially against the sales myzelf, but at the end of the day if they don't buy Su-35s it is only a matter of time before the EU drops its sanctions and tries to sell them Typhoons and Rafales and Gripens.

The Su-35 the Chinese get will not be the Su-35 the Russian AF will get.