China Undercutting Price Of Military Hardware To Capture Markets In Africa From Russia / China's Tanks Aircraft Challenge Russian Sales In Africa

From Defense Technology News:

(NSI News Source Info) HONG KONG - January 1, 2009: Ghana traditionally has been a client country of Western weapons manufacturers. It does have some Russian equipment in service, however, including SAM-7 surface-to-air missiles, Zu-23-2 air defense machine guns and D-30 122-mm howitzers.

The People's Republic of China is now promoting its latest gun-launched laser-guided projectiles on the African continent.

At least one African country is already equipped with the Chinese-made GP1 155mm laser-guided projectiles, which are a Chinese version of Russia's Krasnopol GLLGP, the technology for which was transferred to China by Russia's KBP Design Bureau in 1997.

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