Chinese military exports to other countries
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Blackstone
Brigadier
All of the bloggers comments were copied as written, and my description of it was an accurate recount of his/her post.
manqiangrexue
Brigadier
Clearly because everyone else is a crazy, biased fanboi, including Deino, apparently, from that time he chewed Stoney out for claiming that the J-31 was inferior to J-7. It's literally everyone else's problem, because it just can't be that Stoney has a problem accurately expressing himself (or trying to worm out of lost arguments).You naughty boy..........Why every one takes your posts negative?????
Chinese account of the incident:
I think it actually improves the reputation of the said MRAP if the account is true.
Quick summary:
Kenyan Police MRAP crew of 7 hit by IED during patrol, machine gunner on top killed by sniper fire. Remaining 6 crew all survived blast, driver and commander injured and trapped in vehicle, remaining 4 crew with minor injuries dismounted.
Leaving the more injured 4th member in overwatch, the 3 crew members left to seek help. They contacted nearby Kenyan army unit and returned on WZ-551.
WZ-551 then hit 2nd IED and entire crew including the 3 from the MRAP KIA.
2 Trapped crew members were later killed when insurgents fired RPGs at the wreckage of the MRAP.
Only survivor been that 4th crew member left in overwatch.
Both IEDs were estimated to be in the 30KG range. You can't really ask much more from the MRAP if it performed like this.
I think it actually improves the reputation of the said MRAP if the account is true.
Quick summary:
Kenyan Police MRAP crew of 7 hit by IED during patrol, machine gunner on top killed by sniper fire. Remaining 6 crew all survived blast, driver and commander injured and trapped in vehicle, remaining 4 crew with minor injuries dismounted.
Leaving the more injured 4th member in overwatch, the 3 crew members left to seek help. They contacted nearby Kenyan army unit and returned on WZ-551.
WZ-551 then hit 2nd IED and entire crew including the 3 from the MRAP KIA.
2 Trapped crew members were later killed when insurgents fired RPGs at the wreckage of the MRAP.
Only survivor been that 4th crew member left in overwatch.
Both IEDs were estimated to be in the 30KG range. You can't really ask much more from the MRAP if it performed like this.
manqiangrexue
Brigadier
Goddamn! Kenya's a messed up place!
Thats an understatement. Most of Africa is messed up in one way or another.
SteelBird
Colonel
When talking about reliability of Chinese arms exported, one can't omit the Y-8 which recently has a deadly air crash in Myanmar.
Everyone knows that Y-8 were designed based on Russian An-12. Vietnamese website which always criticize the quality of Chinese products also praise the reliability of this transporter that after 36 years of operation since 1981, there were solely two accidents (including this one).
Everyone knows that Y-8 were designed based on Russian An-12. Vietnamese website which always criticize the quality of Chinese products also praise the reliability of this transporter that after 36 years of operation since 1981, there were solely two accidents (including this one).
A lot of variables and unknowns have to be investigated with an air crash before determining that it is an issue of reliability with the equipment.
First FTC-2000(JL-9 Export version) rolled off the production line on 05.06.2017. The customer is Sudanese Air Force which has ordered six FTC-2000.
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Curious, what is the difference between this model and the model that has a DSI inlet