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by78

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Rarely photographed PLAGF landing ship.

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Blitzo

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I've moved some posts about the PLA Navy to the relevant PLAN thread in the "Navy" section.

This thread should be for PLA Ground Forces relevant news, pics and videos that are new, of note or interesting. Use judgement.
(For example, by78's post above depicts a ship but it is under the PLAGF, and it is a ship type which is not often seen so as a miscellaneous, mildly interesting picture, posting it here is okay)


The below thread should be for general PLA strategic level/MoD/CMC posts, of which I have moved many recent posts relating to the SSF dispersal news to:


 

tankphobia

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QN-202 makes an appearance at IQDEX in Iraq. The placard shows camera feed from the seeker. Armor penetration from the small warhead is around 80mm RHA.

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I wonder what the unit price are for those mini missiles, conventional wisdom would suggest that bigger boom is warranted when a guidence system is used on cost grounds. The warhead looks like 40mm grenade sized.
 

pkj

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I wonder what the unit price are for those mini missiles, conventional wisdom would suggest that bigger boom is warranted when a guidence system is used on cost grounds. The warhead looks like 40mm grenade sized.

We've seen small ukraine drones take out Russian tanks when hit from the sides and/or from the tops.

Since QN-202 is a top-attack missile and can do 80mm, in theory it has a decent chance to disable/blind or even take-out a MBT if hit in the right place.
 

tankphobia

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We've seen small ukraine drones take out Russian tanks when hit from the sides and/or from the tops.

Since QN-202 is a top-attack missile and can do 80mm, in theory it has a decent chance to disable/blind or even take-out a MBT if hit in the right place.
My point wasn't that it's not useful, it's that missile costs don't scale linearly. If you're paying say 75% of the cost of a javalin sized guided missile, why not go for the bigger bang.

The main advantage of QN-202 would be its portability, where a single soldier can carry 6? Missiles.
 
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