China 2025 Victory Day Parade (preparations, new equipment)

Only if the actual missile (not this mockup) shows some separation lines and evidence of a terminal stage rocket. In a way, those would mess with the stealthiness to some degree. So i'm not actually expecting it. Perhaps this C is less of a family member of A, and more of chinese analogue to LRASM, though modeled to fit the VLS cell - so it appears longer and slimmer than LRASM. (in reality it's probably not slimmer at all, just looks slim because its so much longer than LRASM)

Then again, we're looking at a ZL marked truck, which should suggest a Rocket force asset, not a naval asset. So maybe it's more of a general use cruise missile? Which shares characteristics with a possible naval service family member? Or maybe YJ18C is simply to be used by both services, with good enough capability against ground and moving sea targets?
 
Scott Kenny said:
Odd web address. Isn't the usual format country.gov optional .country?
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Nope.

Almost every country in the world has .gov.[country]

e.g. .gov.uk, .gov.nz, .gov.au, .gov.cn

US was supposed to use the country code .us (.us being the country code for the United States of America) but most businesses decided they wouldn't bother generally with a country code.

This kind of makes sense for multinational organisations using .com rather than .com.us and .com is not restricted, anyone can buy one.

In contrast .gov is restricted to US government agencies ONLY, which is super presumptuous that it can be global in scope but only available to the US.
 
Scott Kenny said:
Odd web address. Isn't the usual format country.gov optional .country?
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In fact, I think this is related to the origin of the Internet in the United States, which may be a bit off-topic here, but it will be an interesting topic.
 
martinbayer said:
Judging by the state of play on this here planet at the moment, unfortunately the World Anti-Fascist War seems to be an epic fail to me...
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It's a reference to WW2, right?

Calling WW2 "anti-Fascist" is fairly uncontroversial.

From China's perspective Japanese aggression was a large part of WW2 as well.

Seems pretty accurate?
 
Scott Kenny said:
I'm not arguing that all of those could/would be designed to fit into the big UVLS tubes.

But what mission would each one do? There's two different HGVs and a hypersonic cruise missile in play, plus a high-supersonic cruise missile.
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Seems far fetched to me that the YJ-19 is for surface launch. The cruiser looks like a slimmed down X-51 waverider and that booster would not be able to get it to speed or altitude for that. I would guess air launched HACM equivalent.
 
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Josh_TN said:
Seems far fetched to me that the YJ-19 is for surface launch. The cruiser looks like a slimmed down X-51 waverider and that booster would not be able to get it to speed or altitude for that. I would guess air launched HACM equivalent.
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It ain't, it's submarine launched via torpedo tubes
 
Any military hardware tied up in any parade is a potential bonus to any potential adversary - just saying...
 
martinbayer said:
Any military hardware tied up in any parade is a potential bonus to any potential adversary - just saying...
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It really isn't. What you see on parade is a fraction of what's operational. And the ICBM TELs for example are most certainly not carrying their nukes around. I doubt China's war fighting capability hinges on a couple dozen tanks and jets and couple prototype drones and empty TELs.
 
EmoBirb said:
It really isn't. What you see on parade is a fraction of what's operational. And the ICBM TELs for example are most certainly not carrying their nukes around. I doubt China's war fighting capability hinges on a couple dozen tanks and jets and couple prototype drones and empty TELs.
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;)
 
EmoBirb said:
USVs and UUVs prowling the seas ceaselessly to deny a given area to enemy submarines completely...not bad, not bad at all.
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Unless someone manages to subvert or otherwise neutralise them with a distributed logic bomb or similar, that is.
 

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