Chinese AH-64 Apache clone?

[Triton]

Has the People's Republic of China cloned the Boeing AH-64 Apache?

Photos from China Defense Blogspot.

Source:
http://chinadefense.blogspot.com/2012/02/us-apache-helicopter-appeared-in-china.html

 

[Orionblamblam]

Movie prop? Stolen/purchased from a third party?

 

[SOC]

They do have a pretty serious full-scale replica building thing going on, wouldn't surprise me if that's what this was.

Well, that, or it'd explain our standard response to a downed Apache in Iraq of bomb the crap out of it.

 

[x-copied]

Just a model.
;D

 

[fightingirish]

I think, Deino mentioned before ( 6 months or longer) that this is a private model. It could also by used by a state company for testing their systems. Like a radar or a IR -image from the model itself for own built sensors.

 

[yasotay]

It appears to be a full scale model. Found over at Militaryphotos.net: "This is the delivery of the AH-64 Apache replica to the Zhenhai Expo Park."

http://www.militaryphotos.net/forums/showthread.php?152513-Chinese-Military-Photos（new-thread）&p=6891209#post6891209

 

[Triton]

Aaaahhh, I see. It's only a model. We've seen real Chinese military aircraft transported by similar trucks and so it makes you wonder if the Chinese had cloned the AH-64 Apache.

 

[Blitzo]

If it were real, it would be under wraps.


Not to mention there would be little rationale for China to clone an entire apache, even if they got their hands on one. It's not like the apache's airframe design lends any particular aerodynamic advantages.

 

[x-copied]

The craft is really good.