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...
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china national space administration
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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
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people's liberation army air force
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sead
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"Will China's Next-Generation Supply Ship be Nuclear-Powered?"
"On September 6, 2018, China’s comprehensive supply ship Hongzehu (Hull 881) was honorably retired, marking that the Chinese Navy has entered a new era of modernization. With its retirement, perhaps the country’s next-generation...
Several images have surfaced (of which this is one) from Shanghai CSSC shipyard. Images show what appears to be a large module of a possible aircraft carrier.
Said shipyard was rumored to have started building China's next carrier, first Catobar one, since a few years ago.
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...
Of particular concern is information related to the Sea Dragon anti-ship missile program, a project of the Pentagon’s Strategic Capabilities Office that was being developed by submarine builder General Dynamics Electric Boat...
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