Zhuhai Air Show 2020
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They started the live-stream 7 days BEFORE the opening of Zhuhai air show......
Assuming the WZ-8 is the real deal, would it have flown to Zhuhai on its own or carried there by a H-6N or get trucked in?... at Zhuhai!But now the question is: Is it called WZ-7 or WZ-9? And please show a serial number:
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And as it seems, there will also be a WZ-8:
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Probably transported by truck.
WZ-8 is rocket powered to the best of our knowledge to light up its rocket after being dropped from altitude, it should not be capable of taking off from a runway on its own power. And we didn't see an H-6N either...
I'm more interested in whether the WZ-7 flew in on its own power or whether it was disassembled and transported here and reassembled.
It seems to be confirmed that China now has the ability to quad pack missiles in VLS.
This is a pretty big surprise.
The VLS depicted here seems to represent the UVLS (no central exhaust, so definitely not the H/AJK-16 VLS), and while the specific payloads depicted may cause one to wonder what they are, the fact that a quad packed missile (almost certainly SAM) is depicted openly is probably the first clear and definitive indication that has been long awaited for a domestic quad pack SAM system.
The question is whether the depicted payloads are representative of anything specific, and whether the quad packed SAM is meant to represent 3-5 or not.
The question to me is whether or not this UVLS is meant to be shown for export or this is just a model to demonstrate their capabilities? If for export, maybe it indicates that bigger hulls(destroyers) could now be built for foreign sale.
