Haley, if you want to post about the FC-1 just post about the FC-1.

If you want to insult one of the geeky numbnuts here like Vortex, just say “Vortex, you’re a geeky numbnut.”

Don’t try and be witty. Your English isn’t up to the task and it becomes ridiculous because no one knows what the hell you’re trying to say.

My English sucks too so I tend just ignore most of the flamers.

Except for the geeky numbnuts, that is. I tend to reply to those. Like nerds with their computers, they do know the nuts and bolts of their airplanes if not much else.

Proximity is relative with the size of the Lanzhou MR. You could have forces stationed in Shaanxi in central China and still be in the Lanzhou MR.

Forces geared towards US presence in the Central Asian states are in Xinjiang.

You could see on the map that the Chengdu MR handles South Asia and SE Asia. But traditionally the bulk of the Chengdu MR had been geared towards Vietnam.

Tibet is too easily defended and the possible threat from that direction pales into insignificance in comparision to the east coast (US, Japan, Taiwan) and the north (Russia).

Only when China has advance equipment enough to fullfil first its eastern requirements, then the north’s, the northwest’s and finally the southeast’s (ASEAN) would you see any materiel floating towards Tibet and the southwest.

Originally posted by Arthur
GD,
Flex posted the pic of the nuclear Q-5, and i posted the date of the throw above already. The bomb was not dropped from a pylon, but lobbed out of the recess Flex’ picture above shows. The recess is on the rear half of the room where (with normal first-generation Q-5s) the bombbay is.

Oops! You guys did indeed. That’s quite a picture. I should have read the thread more closely 😀

The Q-5 in PLAAF service also served as nuclear delivery system.

A Q-5 tested a 20 KTn device at Lop Nor in 1972. The method used was reported a lob. The nuke must have been on a pylon – it would have been impossible to lob from a bay.

An aerial lob is first a rapid dive to gain speed and then a swift climb with the bomb being released on the climb so that the bomb speeds away on an upward and forward trajectory.

Yes, a rather low tech way of doing things. It’s like throwing a nuclear football for a few miles.