The rule of thumb in America if it works, it must be obsolete. In China, if it works, they keep using it.
Based on my exprience doin business with China, they can replicate estetics but quality is (*)(*)(*)(*).
That would be true if they were not introducing new types of vehicles and new versions of older ones on daily basis. While significant chunk of their equipment still dates back to 60-th, they keep pouring in new designs instead of selecting one and upgrading it like other nations do. Seems to be a logistical nightmare. Alas, they have deep pockets these days. Totally true for civilian production, but military hardware is another story. I doubt they would be building huge series of 052 destroyers if they are that bad. ----------------------------- Y-9JB ELINT/Gx-8 elint Kj-500 awacs J-20 prototypes J-11bs Df-21 mrbm
Logistical nightmare, you would think. Deep pockets thanks to Americans who no longer demand quality or for got what quality is and demand cheap stuff. Americans paid for China's military.
The incident was ruled pilot error. I'm very familiar with this particular aircraft type; there are 3 flap settings on a C-21A, 8 degrees, 20 degrees and 40 degrees. This would have been a non-precision approach into Ali air base, meaning it's an instrument approach but there is only lateral guidance not vertical guidance. Around 7 nautical miles from the runway you reduce speed to 165 knots with the flaps and gear up. 5 nautical miles out, the airplane should be aligned with the runway at 1,500 feet above ground level, with 8 degrees of flaps. 1 nautical mile out use 20 degrees of flaps and finally at 500 feet above ground level 40 degrees of flaps, gear down. In this instance the crew failed to sufficiently reduce speed and altitude during their normal landing, and failed to complete the appropriate checklist for a high speed partial flap landing.
You notice that when you see what's on the shelves at Walmart, Target and Harbor Freight Tools. Some say that's what Americans want. cheap stuff, garbage. Who are these Americans ?
Are these just conceptarts or real ships? If these are concept arts, they are really well made ones. ---------------- F-15 and Su-27 F-15 and F-5 MiG-29, F/A-18, F-16, Eurofighter Typhoon Su-34 on bombing run Tu-22M3 Su-30SM Tu-160 refueling Selfie by Tu-160 pilot
Aermacchi M-346 (Yak-130) Mi-8 in Crimea Su-33 fly by Kuznetsov AC F-18 on transsonic speed F-18 scoring a hit on a target Su-25(?) airstrike Heat shell
I remember back in 1969 when close to a hundre Army UH-1D Huey Slicks flew over our base camp. It was the sound of a hundre Huey blades popping in the air that you noticed and would never forget. I think my comment at the time was "Charley is in for a bad day." Then one of the guys in our platoon said when he was attached to an Army grunt unit in ll Corps, one morning they heard a sound they never heard before coming from miles away and it kept getting louder. Soon almost fifty Army CH-47's Chinooks appeared overhead.
The ships in the photos are the French/Italy Navy's European Multimission Frigates, (FREMM) "The prime contractors for the FREMM programme are Armaris of France and Orizzonte Sistemi Navali of Italy." >" The FREMM European multimission frigate is a joint programme between France and Italy. It will build 21 FREMM frigates for the French Navy and the Italian Navy. The frigates are 140m in overall length and 20m wide with displacement of 6,000t. The ship's complement is 108 officers and crew. The prime contractors for the FREMM programme are Armaris of France and Orizzonte Sistemi Navali of Italy. Armaris was a joint subsidiary of DCN and Thales and is now wholly-owned by DCNS. The Italian Orizzonte Sistemi Navali is a joint venture between Fincantieri and Finmeccanica. Both Amaris and Orizzonte will play a major role in the system specification and development of the main subsystems and the combat system. In April 2007, DCN became DCNS. This followed an agreement in which Thales became a 25% shareholder in the new company and DCN acquired the naval business of Thales France (excluding naval equipment). continue -> http://www.naval-technology.com/projects/fremm/
This and many more @ http://www.businessinsider.com/thes...e-of-the-most-maneuverable-birds-in-the-sky-1
Thank you for your answers. Consequently, these are more French designs, than Italian ones. -------------- Mi-24/Mi-35 Su-35S
A few WW II photos -------- A handgun, which fires with chemical weapons Ammunition for it: T29E3 UDES 5XX
WW II photos Soviet soldier with SVT-40, Molotov coctails and anti-tank grenades US marines, Pacific theater Destroyed Panter, supposengly in Italy Japanese army executing prisoners, China Me-323 Remotely controlled tankette, which was uparmed with 6 Panzershercks and 3 smoke grenade launcers, Volkssturm, 1945 Sentinel tank Il-4 upper turret
Love the IL-2, an absolutely legendary aircraft. Gave the Reich ground troops a taste of their own medicine. The German infantry referred to them as "schwazer tod" translated as "Black death."
The iconic UH-1 "Huey" of the Vietnam conflict...this photo really captures the intensity of an LZ (landing zone) in a combat area.
Come on Herk, a "conflict" ? You sound like my father who called the Vietnam War a low intensity police action until 1972 when he changed his perspective on what I experienced. My father was a WW ll combat vet in the Pacific during WW ll. The photo shows U.S. Army Huey "Slicks," UH-1 D's and the troops on the ground are not Americans but ARVAN armed with M-1 Garands. The LZ isn't a "hot" LZ, if it were the ARVAN troops wouldn't still be holding their M-1's and would be facing the other direction running away from the VC. The photo has to be 1965 or early 66.
Had it's own issues. A lot of them were lost to metal fatigue of supporting structure. Still, the best WW2 CAS aircraft. Not that there were that many CAS aircraft in existance back then, but still. ---------------------------------------- Actually I've just noticed that a some photos I've uploaded here recently might be a repost of what was posted earlier. Guys, if you notice them, let me know. ---------------------------------------- But I am sure these ones are not the case. T-14 Armata MBT was uncovered yesterday. High ballistic 125mm 2A82 gun, unmanned turret, crew is isolated from both ammunition and fuel, 1500 hp engine. [video=youtube;HYhyzJ7jdGE]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HYhyzJ7jdGE[/video]
T34 and T32 T34 Crew of USS New Jersey (BB-62) watch as a Japanese prisoner of war is shaved, deloused and bathes himself. Likely he was part of an air attack against 3rd Fleet while the US Navy was making strikes on Luzon. Wermacht soldier and a horse in a gas mask. Panzer VI Tiger
Drones in the good old days used to be a lot more badass than they are now. Lockheed D-21 M-21 with D-21 YF-12 with AIM-47 A-10, which was damager during Jugoslavia bombings in 1999. XB-46 The very first С-5B Galaxy
All of these photos are okay. But, it does not speak of the lack of training and maintenance of equipment by Warsaw Pact troops during the cold war. And, it's always been difficult for Russia to keep its military up to date as the first priority for transcripts was to teach them to read and write before they could properly perform their duties. As someone who spent three years intensely scrutinizing the Warsaw Pact forces facing NATO, I always believed the bunk about a massive, overwhelming invasion to overcome NATO and US Forces was a bunch of hot air. I wrote and published a novel about it but can't name it here according to forum rules.
