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I can understand that for PR (Public Relation) purposes yes, but in reality war is about killing people. It's not about looking pretty all the time. Emphasis is based more on killing your country's enemy as best and quickly as possible to minimize lost of lives. All those equipment do add up in costs and money, especially when you think about it putting a million troops in all those.

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Especially true when PLA is not going to war any time soon. No nation in the world can afford to equip its troops the same way either in peace time or in war. If you look at any professional athlete, they wear different things in practice than in actual competition. Typically, what they wear to an actual competition is much flashier in looks and function better as well. Those jerseys they wear allow better breathing and are lighter. Those body armors for football players also provide more protection. World-class swimmers wear those shark-skin suits that makes them swim faster. Yet, they don't wear the same thing in practice. They wear something much cheaper, the same stuff you and I wear in pick-up games. In theory, they should wear the same thing in practice as they can adjust their play and movements accordingly. This is especially true for swimmers since what they have on them affects a great deal on how they move. However, this is not true in reality. They wear much low-tech stuff in practice and only change to high-tech gears in time of actual competition. This is against Vini Vidi Vici' theory of "preparing yourself to the fullest in practice", but this is how it has been done by all the professionals around the world.

SY-400/B-611 SSM

[video=youtube;p6R_jfVoyL0]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p6R_jfVoyL0[/video]

More leaked pix

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To compare, F35A sent to Britain for aircraft static testing








Add the F35 manufacturing flow:

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En... i believe one day it would become true~!

The Sky Dragon medium-range surface-to-air missile system is the latest area air defence missile system developed by Norinco with a maximum firing range of 50 km. Main missions of Sky Dragon include area, essential and field air defence. It can effectively intercept medium, low and ultra-low altitude aerial targets, i.e. fixed-wing aircrafts, helicopters and UAVs, as well as engage and kill incoming cruise missiles.
Each Sky Dragon battery consists of one IBIS150 3D target designation radar, one fire distribution vehicle and 3 to 6 launching vehicles (carrying 4 missiles each). In this configuration, Sky Dragon is capable of engaging up to 12 different targets by firing 12 individually targeted missiles within a matter of seconds.
Using a combat net radio, the launchers can be located 5 km from the fire distribution vehicle. Sky Dragon is fully mobile and can be ready to fire at a new location 15 minutes after the vehicle comes to a stop.
Each Sky Dragon battery can operate autonomously, using local aerial situational information provided by the IBIS150 radar, as well as intelligence received from superior command & control systems. Having been upgraded to include intelligence fusion and situation synthesis equipment, the fire distribution vehicle can also direct two other Sky Dragon batteries to engage cooperatively in battalion-operation mode.

Specifications

Coverage (range): 3 km to 50 km
Coverage (height): 30 m to 20 km
Guidance system: ≤ 13 m
Launch mode: canister-launched missile, oblique launching
Killing probability of single missile: ≥ 0.80 (fighter like targets)
Search radar detection range: ≥ 130 km
Muti-target capability:
(IBIS150 radar): 144 batches
Fire distribution vehicle guidance: 12 Missiles simultaneously engaging 12 targets
Each launching vehicle: 4 missiles simultaneously engaging 4 targets
System reaction time (normal): ≤ 20 sec
System reaction time (emergency): ≤ 16 sec
Deployment time: 15 min
Withdrawal time: 6 min
Continuous operating time: ≥ 12 hrs
Operating temperature: -20°C to +55°C

"Battle Lab" aids transformation of combat power generation mode


The picture shows the officers and men are using the simulation training system to conduct
tactical deducing.

"A batch of ship-based radar signals is captured." "Two suspicious aerial targets are detected." During the simulated joint combat training held by an air force troop unit under the Nanjing Military Area Command (MAC) of the Chinese People's Liberation Army (PLA) on June 19, 2012, the early warning aircraft of the Air Force integrated the intelligence resources from all services and arms, such as the army reconnaissance stations, naval radar stations and so on, and successfully guided the fighter formation to penetrate the defense line and destroy the scheduled targets.

The leader of the air force headquarters under the Nanjing MAC of the PLA, who was directing the training at the site, stated that due to the scattered positions of the services and arms as well as the different missions, the planning and coordination for a joint training will require such a long cycle that only one or two joint trainings at most can be organized in one year. In order to speed up the transformation of the generating mode of combat power, the air force under the Nanjing MAC has utilized technology embedding, system upgrades and other methods to built up a new simulation training system capable of a variety of functions, such as simulated operations, command and control, battle result evaluation and others, which moves the key combat elements of all services and arms into the "Battle Lab".

Li Jingguo, commander of an aviation regiment, said that through 20-plus kinds of software, the system can be uploaded with the data of such geographic features as mountains, deserts, plains, oceans and the alike, as well as various climatic environments. It can set up different battlefield environments, while simulating and generating over 200 combat units of various services and arms simultaneously. For pilots and operators, entering the system is just like going to the battlefield.

Ke Feng, combat training staff of the regiment, said that all the confrontation effects are fully and accurately evaluated by the system. The decision of the win and loss is based upon the precise comparison of the training data. Any plan of operations formulated can be tested on the virtual battlefield.

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A guided missile brigade conducted multi-target and multi-type anti-chemical drills.

ShenYang F-60 CGI

Before the real F-60 aircraft will appear on the internet, share some ShenYang F-60 CGI:





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2008 old photo, latest ZTZ99A2 MBT went to Tibet for mountain running test.


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More F-60 pictures on the road. It's believed that it was transported to Yanliang of Shanxi Provine. There is a major static trial center at there.

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New WZ-10 armed helicopter, out from the production line

Reconnaissance battalion of a group army under the Jinan Military Area Command