>>534070717
The story of the J11B is actually hilarious
>China buys su27 from russia as a stopgap until J-10 is complete
>sukoy gets literally saved by these last minute purchases
>J-11 quickly becomes obsolete
>russians can't produce upgrades and meet the contract terms, upgrades are obsolete on arrival and late
>China decides to tell russians to fuck off, stops paying for the aircraft halfway through and takes the entirety of the su27 production home
>Chinese upgrades (at the time experimental as in never done before in China) make the airframe a million times better
>China ends up with a fully domestic plane and russians end up contracting Chinese engineers to help with Su30/33/35
