News on China's scientific and technological development.

Re: China's first Xinzhou-600 delivered for operation

bladerunner said:

This has to be a misprint surely?

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Or mistranslation from the Chinese Version. If I recall correctly, the order was for 2 MA-600.

Re: China's first Xinzhou-600 delivered for operation

Martian said:

Not necessarily. Laos has 6.32 million people. Each Xinzhou-600 can transport 50 to 60 passengers. 600 turboprops x 50 passengers per plane = 30,000 air transport capacity for an entire country. That is hardly unreasonable.

Also, the article did not specify the delivery dates. The planes could be delivered over an extended period (e.g. 3 to 5 years). In five years time, Laos' population would have grown again to justify the need for more turboprops.

*For ease of calculation, I assumed 50 passengers per plane and that each plane makes one flight per day. This is useful for a reasonable estimate. Feel free to build your own more complex model by assuming a percentage of the planes would be removed for maintenance or training.

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Dolcevita is correct ... it is two planes



Their current order book stands at slightly more than 10 with a current production capicity of under 20 which I read in another site.

China manufactures domestic Gigawatt-class nuclear reactor pressure vessel


Nuclear reactor pressure vessel installation



"China produces own million-kilowatt-level nuclear tech
16:31, December 20, 2010

China's first fully self-developed No. 1 unit reactor pressure vessel of the Hongyanhe Nuclear Power Station, manufactured by China First Heavy Industries (CFHI), was completed on Dec. 18 and sent to Hongyanhe of Liaoning Province.

After testing, all of the equipment's technical indicators meet the requirements, signifying that China has independently developed the capacity to create million-kilowatt nuclear equipment.

Hongyanhe Nuclear Power Station is China's first million-kilowatt nuclear power station, and it began construction during the 11th Five-Year Plan period.

In accordance with the requirements of the National Development and Reform Commission, China has now basically achieved the ability to produce domestically-made second generation million-kilowatt nuclear power equipment through the development of four units during the first phase of the project.

By People's Daily Online"

Note: Thank you to "Brotherhood" for the newslink.

Compendium of China's Military Technological Excellence

As the decade comes to an end in 2010, I would like to record a snapshot of China's best military technologies. In the years to come, we will look back fondly upon this baseline.


Type 99 Main Battle Tank


WZ-10 Attack Helicopter


J-10 Air Superiority Fighter


KJ-200 AEW&C (i.e. Airborne Early Warning & Control)


KJ-2000 AWACS (i.e. Airborne Warning and Control System)

Compendium of China's Military Technological Excellence (continued)


Type 054A Jiangkai II Frigate


Type 052C Lanzhou-class Destroyer


Type 039 Song-class Diesel-electric Attack Submarine


Type 093 Shang-class Nuclear Attack Submarine (SSN)


Type 094 Jin-class Nuclear Ballistic Missile Submarine (SSBN)

Compendium of China's Military Technological Excellence (continued)


Anti-Ship Ballistic Missile (ASBM)


DF-11A Conventional Short-Range Ballistic Missile (SRBM)


CJ-10 Land Attack Cruise Missile (LACM)


DF-31A Intercontinental Ballistic Missile (ICBM)


Mid-course Ground Based Interceptor (GBI) [a highly-modified system based on HQ-9 seen here]

Compendium of China's Military Technological Excellence (continued)

China's stealth technology as exemplified by J-20 Firefang


J-20 overhead view


Front view


3/4 profile


Side view


A different side view. "AssassinsMace" says that saw-toothed edges on opened door are clearly visible.


Rear view


J-20 Firefang on runway for taxi trial


A fifth-generation stealth superfighter among obsolete predecessors

Note: Thank you to "oneman28" for the overhead-view picture.

My first J-20 poster. You better like it!

My first video on China's J-20 stealth fighter. Try it!

[video=youtube;1EBztMJBhAs]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1EBztMJBhAs[/video]

Martian... Compendium on China's Military shows great promise... perhaps watermark your work as your effort for later
release to a best selling photographic BOOK/ESSAY !. I'm sure all the Janes and all the tricky dicky ricky fishies in all the Jin joints in all the world would be more than happy to use it as a biblical reference. Quotes more or less paraphrased from the movie "Casablanca", which is always alluded the best.