This report is submitted to the U.S.-China Economic and Security
Review Commission to offer information and perspective on
developments in Russia-China security relations by conducting
interviews at the bi-annual Moscow Aerospace Salon (MAKS). It has
been this analysts experience on two previous visits to MAKS (1997
and 2001) that it is possible to gather significant new data on
Russian-Chinese military relations. It is important that a
consistent effort be made to plumb such available open sources,
which on occasion can provide insights useful to the security of
the United States and its friends and allies.
AWACS JAMMER One of the surprises of MAKS 2003 was the TOPOL-E, a
radar jammer designed specifically to target the U.S. Navy E-2
HAWKEYE radar aircraft. This program was a beneficiary of company
funding. It is reasonable to speculate that China was indeed the
funding source for this new threat to U.S. forces.
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