Zhuhai Airshow 2016

More confirmed appearances at the airshow:

Engines:
- Monocrystalline/graphene turbine blades

Armaments:
- Over 400 different products from CASC (manufacturer of rockets/missiles)
- WS-64 anti-ship MRL
- FD-2000 SAM
- FM-3000 SAM

UAVs:
- CH-6 UCAV
- CH-7 U(C?)AV
- CH-95 UAV
- WJ-600A/D UCAV
- Solar-powered UAV
- Hawk-1 rotary-wing UAV

Vessels:
- New ground-effect vehicle

Launch vehicles:
- KZ-1
- KZ-11
- LM-5
- LM-6
- LM-11

Spacecraft:
- Shenzhou return capsule
- Space station
- Manned lunar landing equipment
- Chang'e-5 lunar probe
- Reusable 588-ton-thrust LOX/methane engine
- Beidou system
- CHEOS earth observation satellite

Land systems:
- VT-4
- VN-4
- VN-12
- VP-11
- ST1

I hope for the revelation of a Chinese LRASM or NSM styled stealth cruise and anti-ship missile.
And maybe information on the PL-15 long range AAM.

This is something where China's pretty much behind the West.

Insignius said:

I hope for the revelation of a Chinese LRASM or NSM styled stealth cruise and anti-ship missile.
And maybe information on the PL-15 long range AAM.

This is something where China's pretty much behind the West.

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We do not see those kind of top shelf weapons at events like Zhuhai... in fact the PLA goes out of its way to deliberately conceal information about those sorts of weapons and their development as much as they can.

Heck, we don't even have a clear picture of YJ-18 after all these years...

Hyperwarp said:

I have a feeling they might fly either J-20 2001 or 2002 to Zhuhai

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perhaps 2011 ....

Why not 2016 since it is 2016?

Deino said:

Why not 2016 since it is 2016?

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good point!

The Chinese normally won't show off the latest toys .. 2016 possibly too latest while 2011 is modern enough for showing off but not too latest. Quite different than the Americans, they would show off everything

Any word if ws-15 will appear?

antiterror13 said:

good point!

The Chinese normally won't show off the latest toys .. 2016 possibly too latest while 2011 is modern enough for showing off but not too latest. Quite different than the Americans, they would show off everything

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Hmm not sure where you got that from .. The F-117 and the B2 were operational for many years before the public even saw it for the first time.

SinoSoldier said:

More confirmed appearances at the airshow:

Engines:
- Monocrystalline/graphene turbine blades

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This could be a trigger to a new round of HOT war of words that went on for length in another thread.
Joke aside, I am interested to see who is the producer, status of its application etc.

kwaigonegin said:

Hmm not sure where you got that from .. The F-117 and the B2 were operational for many years before the public even saw it for the first time.

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That was during the Cold War though.