The People’s Liberation Army brags that its new VN18 can go 40 miles an hour on land and nearly 20 mph on water. The tank-like amphibious assault vehicle can be adapted to mount a variety of canon or chain guns and can carry 11 soldiers.
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It can travel fast due to all the aluminum parts and bamboo employed during construction.
Easy pickings for an A-10. If the idiots at the Pentagon don’t retire them.
We just need to find the Chink in their armor.
Don’t worry,our Navy will
run into them…
I worked with a Chinese national who graduated from a U.S. university and we picked him up. Pretty bright guy. Very friendly. Until the subject of Taiwan came up. “No compromise. We must get Taiwan back. The 23rd prefecture.” Dead serious.
There’s your big issue hanging out there for which most Americans have no awareness.
Hopefully they liberate the people of NOKO.
Extirpates
The Japanese Zero was made of wood and cloth but was a hell of a weapon.
Must be a coffin shortage in China….now you can bury 11 at a time…
It can carry 11 Chinese soldiers or 3 US soldiers.
More scrap metal post Warthog.
“It can carry 11 Chinese soldiers or 3 US soldiers.”
Or 35 Puerto Ricans.
*Made from die-cast zinc alloy and runs on D batteries, not included.
OH PLEEEEEEAZE! Have it in Walmart for Christmas delivery!
The thing looks like an oversized BMP.
@hanoverfist: The Zero was all metal. It had fabric-covered control surfaces, but aside from that was metal.
“The Zero’s sparsely reinforced air frame yielded a very light empty weight of 1,680kg. It was built of a classified aluminium alloy developed by Sumitomo Metal Industries in 1936. Called ‘extra super duralumin’ (ESD) it was lighter, stronger and more ductile than other alloys (e.g. 24S alloy) commonly used at the time.”
https://www.quora.com/How-effective-was-the-Japanese-Zero-all-variants-was-it-really-as-great-a-fighter-as-its-reputation-implies
You could put an eye out with that thing.
Nice broadside for a target.
@Vietvet…..I have a Sumitomo track hoe and it don’t fly for shit….
My bad.
Vietvet
AKA 7075 t6 qqa 250. At the time the 2000 series aluminums were the go to air frame materials. The weight savings is NOT earth shattering.
“The weapon’s maker claimed U.S. tried to developed faster ones, but failed”
Translation: The U.S. realized that building 20th century troop carriers for the 21st century battlefield only contributed to a target rich environment that would result in losing 11 troops per every one ordinance deployed by drone.
No worries, it’s made in China. It will be broken in six weeks.
The Ideal Vehicle to reacquire all of the Island Nations China claims to own to their south, and I’m not at all sure whose going to stop them !
Wait till you see their new catapult.
Do they come from the same factory that produces most of the Harbor Freight stuff? If so, they better keep it away from a damp environment.
Looks like they’ve been gearing up to refight the Invading 1930s Japanese infantry.
As Gunny said, one drone, one shot.
By the same token, one Exocet in the Falklands war proved the aircraft carrier era was already over, then. We’re still relying on them. The Chinese not so much.
An A-10 could wipe out a whole gaggle of these babies in one pass. But an hour later he’d wanna do it again.
Where does the key fit in to wind these things up?
The zero was fast an maneuverable but unlike US planes couldn’t take any hits before bursting into flames and crashing. In other words tough until you punch back.
If it floats, it’s easy to poke little 30mm size holes in it.
At which point it will stop floating.
@willysgoatgruff: Unless a Sumitomo track hoe is a female Japanese sprinter, I have no idea what you’re talking about.
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@hanoverfist: Don’t feel too bad. It was a common myth among our WW2 pilots. To save weight on their plane, the Japanese omitted armor and self sealing fuel tanks. As a result the Zero was easily set aflame when hit. Many Allied pilots thought that to ignite that easily, the plane must be made of bamboo.
BTW, I could be wrong, but believe the only “current” WW2 combat aircraft that was made of wood was the de Havilland Mosquito:
https://www.google.com/search?q=de+havilland+mosquito+construction&tbm=isch&tbo=u&source=univ&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwiFmcv58M7XAhXL5YMKHXe-ARMQ7AkISw&biw=1284&bih=614
@Bad_Brad: You could tell me anything about metal alloys and I wouldn’t argue with you. What I know about the aluminum used in the Zero came out of that article I quoted from, and I’ve already forgotten what it said.
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@Plantsman: Or to reacquire Taiwan.
Designed to scare the shit out of Taiwan, that is all. I think Taiwan is safe as long as PDJT is in office.