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
Surprised that this wasn't being discussed or have its own thread but it regards militarization, icebreaker projects, living in cold conditions, transporting fuel, possibly another area of conflict later. Examples of starting off thread to get the general idea...
21st century
adélie land
antarctica
arctic
argentine antarctica
australian antarctic territory
british antarctic survey
british antarctic territory
canada
chilean antarctic territory
cold war ii
icebreaker
marie byrd land
nuclear power
people's republicofchina
peter i island
queen maud land
ross dependency
russian federation
united states antarctic program
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
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
All Soviet, Russian and American space flights were filmed on television cameras, photo cameras and digital cameras in space. Starting from 1959 to the present day. Every day Soviet television officially showed crew flights to space stations from the 70s, especially outside and docking. Soviet...
pavel
Thread
china national space administration
people's republicofchina
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.
2018
2020s
airborne early warning
close air support
cold war ii
drone
electronic warfare
late 2010s
people's liberation army
people's liberation army air force
people's republicofchina
sead
strategic reconnaissance
ucav
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