Visit to President Xi: Will China help Russia with weapons Military expert Khodarenok: We should not wait for China to supply weapons and ammunition

Chinese President Xi Jinping noted that he will exchange detailed views with Vladimir Putin on bilateral relations, important regional and international issues of mutual interest. At a joint dinner tonight, Vladimir Putin and Xi Jinping will discuss the “most, most important, key” issues as previously said.

At the same time, it should be noted that not a word was said about the prospects for military-technical cooperation and procurement between the two countries in the author’s article by Chinese President Xi Jinping, written specifically for RIA Novosti and Rossiyskaya Gazeta. weapons and military equipment.

Vladimir Putin did not mention these issues in his People’s Daily article titled “Russia and China – a future-looking partnership”.

In this context, any feature (and even more) of military-technical cooperation between China and Russia at this stage can only be expressed in the form of assumptions, value judgments and perhaps versions.

With a certain degree of certainty, it is probably possible to predict what positions the negotiations might hypothetically take, and what kind of military equipment and military equipment Russia is most interested in at the moment.

It is possible to negotiate the delivery of the following supplies and weapons:

gunpowder (to varying degrees);

explosives (trinitrotoluene, RDX, etc.);

Ready shots for 152 mm and 203 mm caliber guns;

mines for mortars of 120 and 240 mm caliber;

ammunition for MLRS;

152 mm caliber guns (towed and self-propelled);

means of aviation destruction (primarily free-falling bombs);

tactical and operational-tactical missile systems;

tactical drones;

equipment (body armor, steel helmets, etc.).

At the same time, it should be noted that the procurement of weapons and military equipment from China can destroy the image of Beijing as a pacifist (and on a global scale), to which the aspirations of Chinese foreign policy have recently been largely subordinated. times. And I must say, Beijing has achieved significant success in this direction. Suffice it to remember the reconciliation of Saudi Arabia and Iran.

Also, Beijing is very, very afraid of the consequences of both secondary and primary sanctions by the United States, in which case Washington will certainly apply it to China. The European Union will not stay away from such sanctions pressures. And we remember that China is technologically very dependent on both the USA and the EU. At the same time, Washington and Brussels are China’s biggest foreign trade partners.

Therefore, it should be noted that even a trainload of 152 mm shells sent from China to Russia is far from the best condition today.

For these reasons, most experts agree that the supply of weapons, military and special equipment from the Celestial Empire to Moscow in the near future should hardly be expected. Any plans involving third parties are also unlikely (there has been a lot of talk about this recently). Moscow needs AMSE in tens and hundreds of echelons, and today it is absolutely impossible to hide such a scale of supply from foreign technical and secret intelligence services.