I don't think it's important what China does in making Zubr indigenous. The point is that they just need to produce enough of it cheaply. China will always go with mature, good-enough and manufactured at home.
zubr completed?
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MwRYum
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True, though after some more reading that Taiwan's reaction plans still based on China using LSTs and older AAVs doing a short hop from Fujan coast to Taiwan's west coast - the use of LPD/LCAC, plus the ZBD2000s would certainly put an entirely new twist to it. Of course, without them operating in a sizable task group can't expect Taiwan to make any new plans to counter them - in terms of firepower the AH-1W (AH-64D in the future) of the air cavalry would be saving grace, their M60A3s, the best in their armored corp, is lagging behind at least a generation, including their state of serviceability...when I chat with them I always joked: perhaps you guys should consider looting the Singapore contingent when the poop hits the fan, for they got more fancy toys...
Considering the increased use of composites on J-11s (of which aircraft modification are more complex than for vessels), Chinese engineering already has the baseline necessary for making modifications as needed.
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Composites don't always give weight savings compared to traditional materials. The reason is because composites are usually strong in a certain direction, but are much weaker in others.
Standard loads for Zubr are: 3 Т-90 MBTs or 10 APCs or 8 IFVs or 360 Marines or 140 Marines & 130 tons of cargo or 150 tons of cargo.
The contract for building 4 Zubrs is expected to be finished by 2015, with two ships built in Ukraine and two in China. The enterprize "More" in Feodosija is planning to hire up to 1500 personnel to work on contract. Russia will most likely object of design drawings transfered to China without their consent as the project 12332 was designed at Almaz design bureau in SPB.
That's true, but I'd think that for most surfaces they only need to be strong along one axis.
True enough. But LCAC's have air cover from Super Cobra's and Harriers. And in the next few years F-35 JSF. Also USMC/USN doctroine calls for amphibous landings to take place behind enemy lines to establish a base. And not to directly confront the enemey with a "D-Day" type amphibous landing.
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I don't think LCAC's were ever designed for direct frontal assault. Those things are going to be destroyed immediately if they ever tried to land on a beach that has not been cleared by air assault first.
I'm sure a good number of you guys have heard this news by now. I've seen numerous articles on this. But been the lazy bum that I am, I'm just using the one I saw on CDF blog.
This translates to
It would be interesting to see what happens from this. Maybe China will get to produce all 4 on its own, since this plant will have some serious delays if it ever could get back in operation anytime soon.
This translates to
It would be interesting to see what happens from this. Maybe China will get to produce all 4 on its own, since this plant will have some serious delays if it ever could get back in operation anytime soon.