Lucky cannot reach malaysia, imagine 350 marines coming in at 100km/h

The Zubr was never designed for long-range operations in the first place. The Soviets designed the Zubr for operations in the small Baltic sea. They were designed so if hostilities with NATO commenced, they were supposed to be used to land Marine forces on key coastal positions in countries like Sweden, Northern Germany and Denmark.

In the context of the PLA Navy, the Zubr would be perfect for lightning operations to capture outposts in the Spratlys and Paracels islands that not suitable to large ships due to the shallow seas near the archipelago. Also could be used to carry the most urgent cargo or supplies that just can't wait for slow ship journeys and to deliver them directly to the landing beach for the amphibious force. These are sea-going hovercrafts, so crossing the South china Sea from Hainan or Southern China should be no problem.

Not worry
chinese own type LCAC long time in service with Type 071 LPD.... at lease 3 year before get Zubr .......

more resembles to korea lcac than US one...
anyway if RMN buy Type 071, i think RMN will not include LCAC, actually LCAC price is expensive and cost operation a bit high too。

Anywayss almost impossible for us to buy china stuffs, who the hell buys equipment from a country youre having a dispute with, even if youre not to jeopardise relations

To project its power into the disputed South China Sea, China has decided to build an airfield on Fiery Cross Reef in the Spratlys after its land reclamation program according to state-run China NewsWeek.The Chinese foreign ministry claims that China has a right to conduct any activity in its own territory and the People's Liberation Army stated that countries like the Philippines and Vietnam, rival claimants to the island group, along with Taiwan, Brunei and Malaysia, do not have any right to make any comment regarding the construction over the Spratlys. The magazine stated that the land reclamation program on Fiery Cross Reef indicates that China is constructing a new airfield as a foward base for the PLA Navy and Air Force.

Currently, there are four airports in the Spratlys. The largest one is located on Taiping, the largest island of Spratly, which is administered by Taiwan. Malaysia, Vietnam and the Philippines each have their own airport in the island group, with Malaysia's on Swallow reef, Vietnam's on Spratly and the Philippines' on Thitu. Ten islands, reefs and shoals are currently under Chinese administration however, the PLA Navy and Air Force do not have an airport in the disputed region.The PLA has constructed an airport on Woody island in the Paracels which extends the combat radius of the PLA Navy's fighters, but it is still too far for them to provide close air support to the Chinese garrison in the Spratlys. To prevent joint military action against China in the South China Sea which could potentially be launched by Vietnam and the Philippines with the support of the United States, the magazine said that it is critical for the PLA to have an airfield in the region.

China is looking to cooperate with Taiwan in the region. The airfield in Taiping was constructed under the orders of former president Chen Shui-bian, in 2006. After the construction of the airfield was complete, Chen became the first president of the Republic of China to visit the island in early 2008. Since then, the Taiwanese government has begun to strengthen its defense of the island.

China was critical of the airfield on Taiping and its use by US forces to monitor PLA activities in the South China Sea. China's attitude changed however, after Ma Ying-jeou succeeded to the presidency. Beijing hopes that Ma Ying-jeou will be willing to cooperate with mainland China to defend the Spratlys, despite their rival claims to the islands.Ma Ying-jeou has openly rejected the idea of cooperation with China in the South China Sea. A source told the magazine that direct cooperation between Taiwan and mainland China in the South China Sea is impossible within the next 15-20 years because the current Kuomintang regime is still strongly influenced by the US. Cooperation can only be realized in the event of unification, according to the source.

From France MOD's twitter....

Is that KD Tunku Abdul Rahman ?

Probably also too big for fighter-bomber aircraft, so in PLAAF probably only H-6K can carry the the missile. Then the missile can be the Chinese version of the famed Russian AS-4 Kitchen, to be the source of fear for US carriers. Up to now, the most powerful Anti-ship missile in PLA arsenal is the already huge YJ-12, which is a near-copy of a Russian P-270 Moskit missile. It already has US defense thinkers recalculating the odds of survival for any carrier battle group.

The appearance of the Hypersonic CX-1 would probably throw the calculations seriously way off balance yet again in the near future.


H-6 maritime strike bomber with two YJ-12 Anti-ship Missiles

Why dont malaysia build high tech steel mill?? Seems quite weird that we dont even have one high tech mill even though theres so much construction and industries in malaysia.. Or isit just that naval steel is super hard to make

And let us all hope that rmn will choose essm in 8 mk41 vls or at least camm

So all the other type of steel we make for industrial purposes all lower grade than naval steel??

Hahaha don't la say 'copy'. That's such a bad word.

A better word would be 'Reverse engineered'. 

I saw some people on china defence forum saying reverse engineering takes is a very complicated process which takes a lot of skill

Yes, you cracked it!
It is a medium transport plane with a high-set wing and four 6-blade prop engines, thus it is a C-130/A400  copy. This is the absolute truth.

Any attempt to say otherwise is anti-communist propaganda.

any country have show their dissatisfaction over copy technology by china? i guess no one dare hehe

heard we were interested in Textron's Scorpion..

just launch 2 year +, it take time to get customer ....

for now days a training jet simply cost more than 20 milion and reach 30 million too.... 20 million like small money for now， military helicopter also more expensive than usd 20 miilion.
for Scorpion, it not only as traning jet， but more main role is Intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance (ISR) , can to SAR, Maritime patrol, it take same MPA job, some F-35 feature, which can't do by tradition traning jet.
RMAF show interested on Scorpion can be expected, it can solve out issue now, not budget for MPA/old traning jet， so Scorpion can as training jet with more type weapon support and system, can do some MPA job （mini MPA），SAR, ISR， it can replace our 20 year old B200T as MPA， it more capability compare to our B200T MPA， can replace Hawk as strike jet ， close air support.  means 1 jet solve our basic needed.  i not means it can replace full MPA job， but at lease mini MPA better than nothink, we not getting MPA for other 5 year.
Scorpion maybe suite country like as.