people's liberation army

I noticed there wasn't a general thread for this, so I created this since there are a lot of unrealised chinese launcher projects. Starting with one that's already described on astronautix, but I'm posting a source, taken from Xiandong Bao "A Modular Space Transportation System" (IAF-92-0857)...

https://www.twz.com/air/chinas-gigantic-airship-hangar-has-gotten-even-larger

https://www.armyrecognition.com/defense_news_april_2024_global_security_army_industry/china_develops_anti-aircraft_missile_with_2000_km_range.html

If legit - and at least by now it seems, it is - another surprise!Huitong has updated his Blog and again if this image is real, then this is maybe the new heavy attack helicopter Z-XX; he mentions Z-21 (?).However it looks more based on the Z-20 and very much like an AH-64 than promised by some...

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NORINCO where photographic evidence is provided View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-948QapG9qU https://thedeaddistrict.blogspot.com/2020/10/chinese-next-gen-mbt-that-is-currently.html 2 Men crew layout is the most interesting part. Some additional info https://arca.live/b/gaijin/39247626...

Not a journalist I place a lot of credence with so take with pinch of salt: Satellite photos reveal colossal airship hangar in Chinese desert Keen to know if other sources on this.

Let's say that Iran and China want to upgrade their navy, army, air force and so on. How much would be worthy and logical to steal military secrets,projects and more from NATO or NATO-friendly countries (example : Japan, Taiwan and others) to upgrade what they already have ? @Orionblamblam in...

The story began in 1969 in the Sino-Soviet border conflict，Chinese captured a T-62，At that time, all their anti-tank weapons were unable to effectively destroy the T62. So Armor troops think they need a new second-generation tank，call “122”（The Type 69 "121 that was being developed at the time...

Incredibly hard to predict and very difficult to defend against, I think any current US anti-ballistic missile system would struggle with FOBS. A hypersonic glide vehicle and FOBS is probably the ultimate in nightmares for the western defence system...

As someone who followed the various published Western assessments of Soviet Military Power avidly throughout the Cold War I am all too aware of the risks in such evaluation. As various Chinese capabilities are asserted regularly in a range of threads I think it would be timely to discuss the...

https://mp.weixin.qq.com/s/Tpxm4wITvPpUoMRo0DOzAg With five small wheels

Under the Chinese tank designations thread, I've mentioned the VN50 project: https://www.secretprojects.co.uk/threads/chinese-tank-designations.34040/#post-399542 The thing is, I don't even known for sure that this was a real project. For the record, the VN50 was reputed to be a heavy IFV...

Chinese Armour Designation Styles Type-xx (rendered xx-Type in Mandarin) are kind of like US 'Mxx' designations. ZTZxx (and similar) are role-specific PLA designations. - ZTZ (Zhuangjia Tanke Zhongxíng) = Main Battle Tank ('Armoured Tank, Medium') WZxx are officially-applied industrial...

Hello,I found this strange photo I don't know what tanks is this. I asked Tanks Encyclopedia's experts.They told me that this is Type 63 APC.I don't think so

Via Slashdot: https://www.scmp.com/news/china/science/article/2172141/chinas-brightest-children-are-being-recruited-develop-ai-killer

Via https://twitter.com/HenriKenhmann Length 10m, wingspan 22m, MTOW 13t, cruise at 13km / 0.6Ma, Vmax 0.75Ma. Positioning: Strategic recognition and strikes high value targets. First flight 2019, serial production 2022.

After the Sino-Soviet split the PLA really stagnated until they opened to the west in the late 70s, but even then the slow trickle of technology didn't help the PLA too much. It was the fall of the Soviet Union and the Russians providing them with lots of relatively advanced equipment and...

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6FHfsqUf_cM

Hi everybody, It seemed we did not have any clearly identifiable thread on this subject yet. Now we do. Project 0901 is a national endeavor -- not to be confused with project 0902 (Fusion) -- and seems to broadly cover anything related to high-speed scramjet research for the purpose of flying...