I wasn't trying to "correct" you, only to point out YJ-6 was on the side of PAF JF-17 with their color.
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This seems to be reasonably advanced. Kind of like the Storm Shadow or the TAURUS KEPD 350. Should be a nice addition to their arsenal. With bomblets it could be used to destroy airfields at standoff ranges. With other kinds of warheads it could be used against bunkers or hardened concrete structures.
I do think the Chinese lack something like the Brimstone or the Hellfire on their fighter-bomber aircraft though. These would be useful in counter-insurgency warfare or against armor.
The USA also has been switching their attack helicopters to have laser guided rockets. This is another technology I have not seen in Chinese use yet.
This 'Tengyun' smells of pure vapor. I have seen similar proposals decades ago. Like the German Saenger II.
The Soviets also had similar proposals at one point.
Good luck making engines and an aircraft that wouldn't melt at those airspeeds. This is one of those projects which can easily ruin an economy. The Soviets made Buran for example and a fat load of good it did to them.
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Faster, faster!
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I don't think it's the H-20; it was displayed at the CASC booth and under a sign that read "Unmanned Aerial Vehicles".
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Scale model of CASIC's T-Flight 1000 kph maglev train, set to debut in 2025.
This is a tube traveling vehicle I assume? There were plans for these things in several countries at one point but the expense of making the tunnels and maintaining a vacuum to travel at that speed was considered anti-economic at the time. Today you see people like Elon Musk proposing things like the Hyperloop which has much the same issues though. 1000 kph is basically supersonic speed so all the proposals that I can remember for that basically used a lower air pressure or vacuum because of that.
If you look at the Japanese SCMaglev which is a practical design which is supposed to reach production it is still hideously expensive even though it travels at a much lower speed.
If you look at the Japanese SCMaglev which is a practical design which is supposed to reach production it is still hideously expensive even though it travels at a much lower speed.