Re: new Chinese supertank,question....
It lies in northwest of China. That doesn't make it northern ASIA. It is not for no reason that region is commonly referred to as 'CENTRAL ASIA'. Northern Asia does not start anywhere south of the Altay range. The Chinese steppes as they were are having many hilly areas. The provinces I named are hilly. This is not taking into account the extremely heavily built up nature of many of those areas. Northern parts of Inner Mongolia is pretty good tank country, but that's about it. Any further into Chinese heartland, is not tank country at all. China is hilly! Something like 10% of Chinese territory is considered 'plains'. Of course, a lot of it is because of the large mountain ranges in Western China and elevated terrain in same, but that doesn't detract from the central problem: China is not flat.
Gobi desert is a PART of the northern Chinese steppes. And what does outter Mongolia got to do with anything? And who's going to invade Xinjiang? Russia? Kazakhstan? Please. Russia is having trouble to dealing with Chechnya. I don't want to say this, but it is fantasist to think Russia has designs on China.
Even back in Soviet days, the idea of war with China was taken very seriously. Soviets know extremely well what fighting a continental-scale conflict across a hostile land would be like. ANd it's not something that's looked forwards to.
That's because they didn't. They rode WEST into CENTRAL ASIA, and SOUTH, into China. Siberia is swamps and forests. Some of it is flat, some of it isn't so flat. Very few parts of it is particularly friendly to tanks. Mainly the areas around Trans-Siberian railway.
I am thinking you are conflating different definitions of 'northern Asia' here.
Uh, no. Horses have different logistical requirement to tanks. They are sensitive to different temperature ranges, require pasture to graze on, and are much, much more mobile in bad terraine than tanks. Take your own Tibet. Tibetan horsemen were well-known cavalry force. But you try driving a tank army across - let's be generous - Qinghai.
Tanks don't typically ride cross-country, anyway, but instead go via rail.
There is a reason why 'tank transporters' are big part of any armoured division.
Well, at this point, I'll say no more and let you digest what I said.
It lies in northwest of China. That doesn't make it northern ASIA. It is not for no reason that region is commonly referred to as 'CENTRAL ASIA'. Northern Asia does not start anywhere south of the Altay range. The Chinese steppes as they were are having many hilly areas. The provinces I named are hilly. This is not taking into account the extremely heavily built up nature of many of those areas. Northern parts of Inner Mongolia is pretty good tank country, but that's about it. Any further into Chinese heartland, is not tank country at all. China is hilly! Something like 10% of Chinese territory is considered 'plains'. Of course, a lot of it is because of the large mountain ranges in Western China and elevated terrain in same, but that doesn't detract from the central problem: China is not flat.
Gobi desert is a PART of the northern Chinese steppes. And what does outter Mongolia got to do with anything? And who's going to invade Xinjiang? Russia? Kazakhstan? Please. Russia is having trouble to dealing with Chechnya. I don't want to say this, but it is fantasist to think Russia has designs on China.
Even back in Soviet days, the idea of war with China was taken very seriously. Soviets know extremely well what fighting a continental-scale conflict across a hostile land would be like. ANd it's not something that's looked forwards to.
That's because they didn't. They rode WEST into CENTRAL ASIA, and SOUTH, into China. Siberia is swamps and forests. Some of it is flat, some of it isn't so flat. Very few parts of it is particularly friendly to tanks. Mainly the areas around Trans-Siberian railway.
I am thinking you are conflating different definitions of 'northern Asia' here.
Uh, no. Horses have different logistical requirement to tanks. They are sensitive to different temperature ranges, require pasture to graze on, and are much, much more mobile in bad terraine than tanks. Take your own Tibet. Tibetan horsemen were well-known cavalry force. But you try driving a tank army across - let's be generous - Qinghai.
Tanks don't typically ride cross-country, anyway, but instead go via rail.
There is a reason why 'tank transporters' are big part of any armoured division.
Well, at this point, I'll say no more and let you digest what I said.
