A Chinese anti-tank platoon of 3,000 people must be able to disassemble an enemy tank for parts and assemble it into its own tank before it has time to fire the first shot …
The passion of our eastern neighbors for a scrupulous study of foreign products with the subsequent mass reproduction of their copies has become the talk of the town. And so the Chinese tactics began to bear fruit.
We become involuntary witnesses of how a tough in every sense, an eastern state with a culture alien to us and ideas of beauty ascends to the world pedestal. Not the slightest idea of Christian morality. Instead of conscience - a layer of impenetrable armor made of impudence and lies.
The Chinese are silently doing their job, not paying attention to licenses and copyrights. One cannot count on any gratitude on their part. The last Chinese "thank you" looks like a further resale of a secret item (how could you! We agreed - only between us!) Somewhere in the direction of the USA …
At present, there is no longer any need to talk about “blind copying”: China's science and industry have reached such a level when it becomes possible to develop their own high technologies. At the same time, the Chinese still cannot copy a number of the most important components (aircraft engine building, radar) and, as a result, are still forced to resort to purchasing foreign components.
As for the flight of creative imagination, nothing new can be expected from the Chinese. Conceptually, all Chinese equipment is still copies of Western designs.
I present to your attention a selection of the most scandalous "novelties" of the military-industrial complex of the People's Republic of China. Where behind every Chinese product its great ancestor stands proudly.
Shenjang J-11
In technical terms, it is a Su-27SK fighter.
The first 95 aircraft were assembled from kits supplied by the Russian side in the period 1998-2003. Despite the terms of a previously concluded contract that provided for the assembly of 200 aircraft using Russian components, China unilaterally terminated the contract and refused to supply another 105 sets. The official reasons for the refusal were the narrow specialization of the Su-27SK (interceptor), the impossibility of integrating a fighter of Chinese weapons into the avionics, as well as the refusal of the Russian side to transfer technology for the licensed production of Sushki in China. The real reason for the refusal was the readiness of Chinese aircraft manufacturers to produce an unlicensed copy of the Su-27SM.
A couple of years later, the fears were fully confirmed: China demonstrated its own J-11B fighter-bomber. Updated "Drying" with composite fenders and modern electronics, incl. radar with active PAR.
HQ-9 (“Red flag-9”), export designation FD-2000 (“Fang Du” - “protective shield”)
Like its progenitor, the Russian S-300 anti-aircraft missile system, the Chinese HQ-9 is an extremely extensive system of missiles, radars and auxiliary equipment. All efforts are made for the sole purpose - to sweep the enemy aircraft from the skies. The declared firing range of the base modification is ~ 200 km. The cruising speed of the rocket is Mach 4, 2. The launch weight is about two tons. Warhead weight 180 kg.
The HQ-9 uses a similar launcher with quadruple cylindrical transport and launch containers, a vertical missile launch method and a two-stage missile defense system, in many ways reminiscent of the S-300 missiles … This is where the similarities end and a number of solid differences begin. Unlike the S-300 and the American Patriot air defense system, the Chinese air defense system uses radars with active PAR, and the missiles have greater maneuverability due to the controlled thrust vector.
The HQ-9 complex has been in service with the PLA since 1997 and is constantly evolving towards a missile defense system. According to the Chinese, the "Red Flag" has long surpassed its progenitor in terms of characteristics. Turkey and Thailand have already been noted among those wishing to purchase the Chinese "fake".
Aboard a Chinese destroyer Type 051C "Liuzhou". In the foreground is an F1M radar station with a phased antenna array, similar to that installed on the Peter the Great nuclear cruiser. Included in the fire control system of the ship's air defense system S-300FM. In the background is a three-dimensional general detection radar of the Fregat family.
Chinese destroyers Type 051C were built in the early 2000s. with the widespread use of foreign technologies and components, primarily Russian-made.
Modern Chinese destroyer Type 052D. A hull built using stealth technology, a radar with four AFARs on the walls of the superstructure, 64 missile silos …
There is nothing to be surprised at: Type 052D is just a smaller American "Arleigh Burke".
USS Spruance (DDG-111)
In the bow of the superstructure of the Chinese destroyer, another interesting "exhibit" is noticeable. Seven-barreled radar-guided cannon “Type 730”, which is a complete copy of the “Goalkeeper” anti-aircraft system (Netherlands). In 2014, the lead destroyer of the 052D type (“Kun min”) was accepted into the PLA Navy. It is planned that by 2020 the Chinese fleet will be replenished with 11 more missile destroyers.
Dongfeng DF-21 medium-range ballistic missiles with a maneuvering warhead. The flight range makes it possible to “cover” the whole of Siberia. The flight time is a few minutes. The circular probable deviation is a matter of meters. At the same time, China, unlike Russia and the United States, is not bound by a treaty banning short- and medium-range ballistic missiles. And continues to develop this lightning-fast attack weapon.
The DF-21D modification is positioned as an anti-ship ballistic missile that poses a deadly threat to American aircraft carriers off the coast of Southeast Asia (in the title illustration for the article - tests of the DF-21D in the Gobi Desert)
In the external appearance and in the general concept of "Dongfeng" familiar features slip … Of course, this is the Chinese reincarnation of "Pershing-2"!
MGM-31C Pershing II
China space program
In 2003, China became the third space superpower in the world to send a man into space on its own. In 2007, China demonstrated technology to intercept satellites in low Earth orbits. In 2007, 2013 and 2014. accordingly, China became the third country with a lunar-orbiting interplanetary station, a lunar landing station with a lunar rover and an interplanetary station with a reentry vehicle from lunar orbit. In 2012, China was the fourth in the world to study an asteroid using an automatic interplanetary station. In 2011, China launched its first space station and performed the first docking, becoming the second country in terms of the number of space launches performed, surpassing the United States and second only to Russia. In 2012, the first manned flight to the national orbital station took place in China. Along with the United States, Russia and Europe, China has a national global navigation satellite system (Beidou).
It is no secret that the basis of the PRC's success in the study of outer space is close cooperation with the Russian rocket and space industry.
Descent compartment "Shenzhou-10"
The design, weight, dimensions and all systems of the Shengzhou manned spacecraft are approximately identical (taking into account amendments to Chinese standards) to the Soviet Soyuz series spacecraft, and the orbital module is built using technologies used in the Salyut series of Soviet space stations. "Shenzhou" has a similar layout: the instrument-assembly compartment, the descent vehicle and the utility compartment. It is curious that the first group of Chinese taikonauts was trained at the Cosmonaut Training Center. Gagarin in Star City.
Shenchdou
Soyuz TMA-7
