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://www.defensenews.com/unmanned/2021/09/03/italian-police-raid-drone-maker-over-alleged-chinese-takeover/
TLDR: Alpi Aviation, manufacturer of the Strix, which is used by Italian SF, was bought for an inflated price in 2018, by a Hong Kong based front company for two Chinese state owned...
2000s
2010s
2020s
21st century
late 1990s
people's liberation army air force
people's liberation army naval air force
people's republicofchina
shenyang
https://navalpost.com/china-type-052d-destroyer-suzhou-132/
From back in March, via the Wikipedia entry on the Type 052D family:
https://www.janes.com/defence-news/news-detail/more-stretched-type-052d-destroyers-join-the-pla-navy...
What if the Sino-Soviet split did not occur?
Basically there were ideological differences between Mao and Khruschev, which led to the split.
Lets say in this scenario, both sides were a bit more flexible about the interpretation of Communism and agreed
to some how respect each others...
Makes sense to move this into its own thread.
This is a thread about the free-flying telescope module.
View: https://mobile.twitter.com/dr_guangtou/status/1384547267999322113
View: https://mobile.twitter.com/dr_guangtou/status/1384547272264925188
View...
The growth of the Soviet Navy was symbolised by Admiral Gorshkov and a global maritime exercise (Okean 70).
I was wondering if any clue was emerging to Chinese naval doctrine?
Now it has reached Mars orbit it might as well have its own thread.
View: https://twitter.com/PRCMarsRover/status/1358403478284947459
View: https://twitter.com/Cosmic_Penguin/status/1359490712786460673
2010s
2020s
beijing wowjoint machinery company
belt and road initiative
bridge building machine
launching gantry
people's republicofchina
shijiazhuang railway design institute
sideprojects
Rumoured since some time but confirmed only know
View: https://twitter.com/RupprechtDeino/status/1317346711682093056
View: https://twitter.com/OedoSoldier/status/1317316788594438144
In 1968 the China attempted to develop a VTOL fighter, so engineers came up with adding lift fans to the J-6 to finish it by 1971. Lack of success and the death of some of the CCP leadership gets the project canceled in 1972.
Slightly more sane proposal
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