SU-27 fighter aircraft and has done a deal to assemble more of the planes itself.
Moscow will deliver 24 Su-27 supersonic fighters to Beijing this year, adding to the 26 already sold.
SU-27 fighter bombers from Russia have already arrived in Ethiopia, along with container-loads of weapons through Djibouti.
Since friendly air exercises with Russia in 1992, the Pentagon has known that the Su-27 can outmaneuver the F-15C.
The company also hopes to sell China the Su-35 a more advanced version of the Su-27 if the J-11B doesn't perform well enough.
The J-11B looked almost identical to the Su-27, but China said it was 90% indigenous and included more advanced Chinese avionics and radars.
It has purchased 300 to 400 Russian Sukhoi Su-27 fighters and Su-30 fighter-bombers, plus Russian A-50 AWACS and anti-air and ground attack missiles.
The Japanese defense minister even posed for pictures in the cockpit of a Su-27 jetfighter -- the very aircraft the Russians have been selling China.
Sell Taiwan the AIM-9X helmet display sighted air-to-air missile to confer a balance with the Russian R-73 helmet-sighted AAMs that arm PLAAF Su-27 and Su-30 fighters.
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Japanese F-2 fighter jets were scrambled, as the Russian Su-27 planes flew south over the Sea of Japan before turning back to the north, Japan's Kyodo news agency said.
L.A. has sampled some 1970s-era high-tech toys like Soviet Su-27 jets, but most of the cool new Nintendo military gear is out of its price range or on forbidden export lists in the West.
Few things illustrate this more clearly than the J-11B, a Chinese fighter that Russian officials allege is a direct copy of the Su-27, a one-seat fighter that was developed by the Soviets through the 1970s and 1980s as a match for the U.S. F-15 and F-16.
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