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By   Reuben Johnson on March 09, 2021 at 10:25 AM Chendgu J-20 fighter prototypes, , considered suspiciously similar to the American F-35 Joint Strike Fighter but at least initially powered by a Russian-made, 1980s-vintage engine. KIEV: Washington and Kiev are trying to block the Chinese takeover of a jet-engine maker little known outside Ukraine, Motor Sich. If the sale goes through, it will let China obtain a key defence technology that has eluded them for decades, in one of the few remaining disciplines where the US and its allies retain a competitive advantage. For decades, the Achilles’ Heel of Chinese airpower has been Beijing’s perennial inability to design and build reliable military jet aeroengines.  For most of the years that the People’s Liberation Army (PLA) has been engaged in its current modernisation drive, they have had to rely on aeroengine technology – as well as the off-the-shelf engines themselves – imported from Russia.

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