China 2025 Victory Day Parade (preparations, new equipment)

Unless those are midgets in the foreground, it is hard for me to picture this fitting inside a 533mm tube. Why would the fins be fixed? I also do not see that booster pushing that cruiser to 20,000 m, so I would think minimally that would have to be some kind of dual mode ram/scramjet to reach hypersonic speeds and altitudes from a surface launch.
 
SOC said:
Because they're mockups. They've displayed tube-launched missiles like this before. Low-fidelity mockup, showing basic layout but lacking in detail.
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Fair enough. That booster stack still looks like it is not up for a push to hypersonic unless that inlet/combustion chamber is variable. Has the PLAN explicitly stated this is a torpedo tube launched weapon or is that coming from another source?
 
luritie said:
J-15 YJ-15 AShM, UVLS YJ-20 ASBM & YJ-17 HGV
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PLA official description: Deployable on carrier-based aircraft, surface ships, submarines, and other platforms. They feature long range, extremely high speed, and devastating strike power, serving as elite precision weapons for neutralizing maritime threats.
 
luritie said:
HQ-11, HQ-20, HQ-22A HQ-19, HQ-9C, HQ-29
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Multi-phase, multi-layer missile interception. To defend against helicopters, aircraft, and missiles at long, medium, and short ranges, providing 24/7 readiness to counter aerial and space threats, forming a solid defensive shield over national airspace.
 
GTX said:
Not really if you are sending messages
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At least if they were labelled in Chinese characters China could argue its for domestic consumption, and its not going to derail Western analysts at all as they can simply transliterate the characters (unless its for Fox News/CNN "analysts").

Also not everything gets labelled.
 
I cannot recall any labels on missiles when there were parades in Red Square, especially during the Cold War.

Personally, the amount of equipment displayed was a bit underwhelming, possibly due to those early "leaks" that can be found over the Internet leading to the parade, thus the "awe" factor is not there anymore.

I am more impressed by the contingents of troops .... all of them are of the same height, similar facial features, and I don't think anyone of them wore spectacles ..... it is something if you can mass produce hardware and equipment to the same specifications, but it is something else when everyone looks so "uniform" .... and that is scary .....
 
zjz said:
I cannot recall any labels on missiles when there were parades in Red Square, especially during the Cold War.

Personally, the amount of equipment displayed was a bit underwhelming, possibly due to those early "leaks" that can be found over the Internet leading to the parade, thus the "awe" factor is not there anymore.

I am more impressed by the contingents of troops .... all of them are of the same height, similar facial features, and I don't think anyone of them wore spectacles ..... it is something if you can mass produce hardware and equipment to the same specifications, but it is something else when everyone looks so "uniform" .... and that is scary .....
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In fact, selecting individuals who meet the combined height and weight requirements from millions of people is a straightforward task. Choosing participants of the same height and weight for training has many advantages, one of which is the convenience of training, while another is the visual appeal of the formation. If you are a Westerner, you may find that their facial features appear similar, which is a normal perception, just as we Easterners see similarities among Westerners' facial structures. Additionally, due to the uniform clothing, it can indeed be difficult to discern their differences from a distance; however, upon closer inspection, their appearances, in our view, are distinctly different.
 
JL-1 should atleast have a range of 5000km as the commentary described it as a "Long range missile" which is anywhere from 5000km to 8000km.
 
Tomboy said:
JL-1 should atleast have a range of 5000km as the commentary described it as a "Long range missile" which is anywhere from 5000km to 8000km.
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We are entering icbm range with this.

When I hear long range, i normally assume 1000km or more than that.
 

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