Nice pic. Sharp and clear plus it clearly show 2 094 SSBN. Opening the missile hatch is a big bonus! 😀

Is PLA going to buy Mi-26???

We shall never doubt FC-1 is capable of firing BVR　SD-12 missiles.

Even without video or without concrete support. It is clear FC-1 is design with the intention to do BVR with SD-12…

It shadn’t be too hard to believe FC-1 firing a SD-12!

Well how good it is?
During my army time, we used the finnish Rk62, wich is basicly a AK, with fancier stock and has its sigths little bit different position.
I always made over 90 point scores when firing 10 round captions and suprisingly many managed to reach these levels, wich are almoust competion shooting level. So the claims about accuracy are IMHO BS, if you cannot shoot something with AK, the proplem is not in the weapon, but in the shooter. During our training, the instructors told us that the weapon we were firing is the seccond most accurate in the world (Russian Ak-74 was the number one), so all complains about the weapon were to be treaded as excuses. And this wasent talk of some armschair generals, like us here in the internet, but words from ones that actually work with these things.
Also what comes to the ruggerness, during our long artillery fireposition camps, we rarely even bothered to remember that we carried the rifles and they usually just layed somewhere in the mud. As the camps were supposed to simulate combat situations, we always carried them loaded with blank ammunition. I never even heard a rumor that someone’s weapon would have jammed when suddenly a neighbouring battery made a little “visit” to our positions, and after one of the camps, while I finaly cleaned the weapon, I found a half of a pinecone inside my rifle…and I had shoot almoust full fire portion (90 rounds) with it.
I also heard that in my brother’s battery, some brainhead dropped his rifle before a army truck that drove across the rifle’s barrel. The guy got awfull lot of **** from the instructors and officers and were doomed to pay thousands of euroes to compensate the weapon. Still when they went back to the garrisons and to the firing range, the rifle made perfect score and no one could tell any changes to its accuracy.

So how good AK-47 really is…well I wouldnt go to the war if i would know that they’re giving me something else

At 200m,AK-47 accuracy can still be consider good! Beyond that,better use a M-16! Comes to reliablility,nothing beats an AK-47..

It is from Guradian and any thing written in British press about Russia or China u have to take with big grain of Salt. considering the spy and dissidents living. u have to read Lavrov paper for Russian policy for 21st century. Entire importance is given to Asia and Latin America.

Finally u are talking some sensible thing..

Good to see that u are so sane! 😀

I don’t write it, I just post it.

I will agree with Turbinia however that for two formerly ‘fraternal Socialist brothers’, Russia and China sure have a strange relationship, up to and including shootihng at each other during the Cold War.

I have no doubt that the basis of the assertions, that China has ruthlessly copied systems well outside the scope of licence manufacturing, does take place.

The Chinese commercial system barely understands the concept of intellectual property, trademarks and copywrite, I doubt the countries military manufacturing sector is any better, and probably a great deal worse.

Unicorn

The report hardly reflect the situation between Russia and China. If military trade deal is so bad between them. Putin wouldn’t have personally ink the official export of RD-93 to China with permission of re-export to Pakistan recently..

In terms of military co-operation, Peace Mission 2007 wouldn’t have continue!
And to say China just need a few copies plus technical explantion, photo and manual to be able to completely copy the model are actually a praise and compliment of China technology superior. Seriously I doubt that is the case. External wise,the system indeed looks like Russian counterpart but definitely,large number of indigenous parts are input into the system and not a direct copies of Russian counter part.

It doesn’t prove anything but somebody did fork over the dough to have this made:

http://mediafusionreview.com/darpa_sto/NSC-video_Large.mov

WOW.. The graphic is wonderful.