I could be wrong. I thought the guard of honour have all replaced their type 56 rifles with the type 191. But I forgot the 标兵 who were still holding onto the type 56 in this parade.
2025 Victory Day parade thread (workup, 3rd Sept)
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This HQ-20 seems to have a similar footprint as the HQ-11 but longer, assuming that its role is equivalent to that of S-350/KM-SAM could it be a potential candidate for the UVLS quad-packable SAM, offering better performance than the HQ-11 like the Russian 9M96E2 to the 9M96.
Not really since the HQ-11 vehicle comes with its own radar. They are different categories of system.
IIRC,sometimes the ceremonial guards in their gun handling duties like/require the older rifle types like AK47/Type 56 /SKS/even a bolt-action(?) makes for better salute/twirling gun handling demonstrations
The real advance weapon of the parade
096 is unrealistic because we have no indication of it starting construction, 095 is more likely to be shown
Activate the droids!
China seems to have went for a really ... complete(excessive? rich?) set of multiple 3-tier(long/medium/short range) systems optimized for every niche. Not even between services like before, but 2 lineups for PLAAF ADF(ABM: HQ-29, HQ-19, HQ-9C; SAM: HQ-9C; HQ-20/22A; HQ-11), 3 lineups for PLAGF(SAM: HQ-16, HQ-17A; CIWS/local AD: SWS3; 625,PGZ-09 ; Anti-drone: FK-3000, light/medium BDe lasers)
Advantages and disadvantages of such stratification are apparent.
That's a much more...complex layout than even Russia.