Z-10 thread

[Mr_C]

The suggested cause for China's infavorable overseas views is due to the secretive military spending? That's the most ridiculous suggestion I've ever heard. I doubt overseas civilians worry about China's secretive military spendings. If your report is true, then Madaline Albright was most likely working for the English government and trying to make China talk more. If there is a decline in favorable views, then it is mainly due to China's lack of soft power. China's movie industry needs to become far more popular in overseas markets in line with her going economic power. China's animation industry, gaming industry, and other areas also need improvement.

As for the pictures, they might be real, possibly used as dummies to misguide foreign intelligence satellites or as early prototypes. It's not as if other countries don't know about the WZ-10 development already.

Well anyway here is a link to a summary of the report conducted by Madaline Albright.

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And soft power comes in more forms than just movies, video games etc. In fact Commie China has alot more soft power in many places; mainly economic and cultural, its just that we in the west don't get to see it as much, or even understand it.
Anyway lets not get off topic, I would agree that the Z-10 is still in the prototype and evaluation stage of development which means it will still be some time until we can see this little bird in the field. This pace of development maybe a reflection of China's lack of experience in developing their own helicopters. Or it can be simiply be due to their patience. I feel it is a combination of both.

 

[bd popeye]

[QUOTEThis might be abit off topic, but it feels that the PLA is trying to be alittle bit less discrete with their military projects. For example the announcment of the planned production of 081 LPH, and now these Z-10 mock-up pictures][/QUOTE]

Those pictures are over a year old. As to the 081 just like the Varyag we will have to wait a long time before we really see anything.

As for the models or mock-ups. Many militaries use them for displays. Don't want the public to to see all the real toys.

Now the problem with PLA mock ups is that some "fan-boys" get all excited when they see them and proclaim them to be real. Spreading rumors throughout the internet. All this equals to is more confusion about what sort of equipment the PLA is truely developing. It just makes "observers"(neo-con) think that China is shrouding it's military development more than it really is.

 

[szbd]

WZ10 on newspaper!

A WZ10 landed in a corps field near Jingdezhen (where the producer of WZ10 locates) due to technical problems. Then appeared on local newspaper. It is said the problems can be fixed in the field and the chopper will fly back by itself.

 

[szbd]

pdf version of the newspaper:

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[kickars]

From this newspaper photo WZ-10 seems to have retractable landing gear.

 

[AmiGanguli]

Hmm. That page (and only that page) appears to have been pulled from the newspaper web site.

 

[Costas 240GD]

Nah, just the vegetation is tall enough to hide the landing gear.

 

[jwangyue]

The shape of the hull would suggest some stealth feature and effort to hide IR signature.

 

[Roger604]

Nah, just the vegetation is tall enough to hide the landing gear.

Huh? There are no trees hiding the landing gear. Could be a PS pic.

 

[Totoro]

Trees? by vegetation he meant grass or rice or whatever that green surface is. could easely be tall enough to hide the undercarriage.