I am sorry but isn’t that PT04 (redesigned airframe and avionics) ? I haven’t heard of PT06 or if there was any work being done in that direction. Do you happen to have more information?

Thanks.

When you build a plane you don’t stick with only one proto type airframe. Not that this plane is any different than the PT04 but with so much test needing to be conducted , one airframe is never enough.

the only reson i thought of an attack on the city is to distract the china from the airfealids and save the defeances because thats what what was done in the battle of britain. they wouldn’t have to spend to much time over the manland would they.

They wouldn’t want to spend any time oner the mainland period. Any over flies over than mainland warrents these planes being shot down and Taiwan don’t have much assests to loose.

We are talking about an PLAAF raid on Taiwan and thus the initiative lies within the PLA not the other way around. Unless Taiwan decides to preemtively attack PLA by invading mainland airspace with military jets and there by single sidedly start the war then your anology does not apply.

During the battle of britain radar warning was in it’s infant stage and SAM cover was non existant. Now undetected entry of F-16 is vertually impossible and thus unless the F-16 is intentionally looking for the fight there by starting the war your assumption does not hold.

If we are talking about PLA aggression then Taiwan would have no time to send in the F-16 for bombing missions in the starting hours as they are either busy hiding in caves fort the missile attacks to die down or being scrambled to intercept the PLAAF fighters.

That’s why I say if the US were serious about helping them they’d offer them 6 – 8 retired 688s (refurbished of course) armed with TLAM-Ns. Of course if the US did that they might find Iran armed with Chinese nukes and maybe AQ gets one or two also. Maybe Taiwan needs to develope nukes independantly but I don’t know that they’d be able to hide the effort from the world. Do they have any nuclear power plants?

Yes they have 4 civilian nuclear power generation plants

ruling DDP party tried to demolish the unfinished no. 4 plant but was unsuccessful.

Although Taiwan has the ability to develope nkes and have in history attempted to do so on many occasions.
If Taiwan was actually developing nukes it will be quite impossible to keep from Beijing from finding out in the policital atmosphere now.
Even during their iron grip period of Jiang Jie shi’s rule, Taiwan was never able to keeps its nuclear aspirations a secret.

After all, runways can be repaired in a matter of hours.

hmmm… apparently not for Taiwan.

They have refused the LM runway patch kit and have no domestic version of their own.

I’m not quite sure how long a run way can be re paved but certainly takes more than a few hours.

That maybe this is the reson for the ministry of defence to apply the concept of using highways as makeshift airstrip…

Named the “Twin Panda” actually with two Pratt and Whitney turboprops (like the “Twin Otter.”) It’s being sold with the Canadian Aerospace Group as the intermediary. CAG, the Canadian firm, buys from Harbin, refits and resells them across the globe. There are more than a few purchases.

CAG reported orders for 35 Y-12s in 2000 for the Canadian and the North/South American market, including three aircraft for California Coastal Airways* and a 15-plane order to Brazil.**

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GD’s Notes:
*http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1G1:54507787/California+Coastal+Airways~R~(Brief+Article).html
“California Coastal Airways, a new Regional airline that will begin service in mid-April, has ordered three YS-12-4 Twin Pandas from Canadian Aerospace Group for delivery in mid-1999.”

**http://www.defense-aerospace.com/cgi-bin/client/modele.pl?prod=414&session=dae.22520942.1156637126.RPDhxsOa9dUAABpbF7k&modele=jdc_1

“The Canadian Aerospace Group International Inc., continued to gain altitude on the announcement of a firm order for 15 Twin turboprop Panda Aircraft and spares. The sale is to a Brazilian transport business consortium in Sao Paulo and comprises 7 float-equipped models and 8 standard utility configuration aeroplanes.
The aircraft will be used domestically to haul passengers and time sensitive freight such as medical supplies, fresh food and other perishables into the huge regions across the Amazon Valley away from the more populated and well-serviced city centers. Current road and river transportation there is very slow and dangerous due to piracy, bad weather, road washouts etc. Further announcements are expected shortly by the Brazilian firm concerning route structures, tariffs, and operational schedules.”

great! now I only have to find which canadian airline currently uses the planes and sit in one…

Y-8 has bigger cabin space than USN E-2C haweye,but the two picture suppose to show Balance beam cabin was simple to small,slightly smaller than E-2C haweye.
picture probably taken from camera phone,in highly restricted and sensitive such as air force base,it will will consider foolish for anyone to carry camera inside “top secret” aircraft without being haul into interrogation room.

I’ve heard that all PLA personelle are barred from using or carrying cellphones for the exact reasons as stated above. So concevably this isn’t a PLAAF plane…

Download the CCCP codec.
don’t mind the pun.

It has almost every codec you will ever need.

The YJ-88 does exist–a photo was posted on a Chinese website.

Not official news site since no CCTY logo.

Sadly it is a crude Photoshop attempt of a C-701 missile mated with a C-802 head…

new chinese LACM or ASM are based on terbojet engines which requires an air intake on the missile. YJ-83 and YJ-63 boith have intakes and the new LACM all have air intakes on the bottom of the missile body.