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[2] [3] The Z-20 can operate from locations above 4,000 m (13,000 ft) in altitude as well as from the Liaoning aircraft carrier. [4] [5] It is regarded to be comparable in performance to the US-made Sikorsky UH-60 Black Hawk helicopter, of which the civilian Sikorsky S-70C-2 variant has been used by the People's Liberation Army since 1984. [6]
The following is a list of military equipment of the ROC in World War II (1937–1945) [1] which includes aircraft, artillery, small arms, vehicles and vessels. This list covers the equipment of the National Revolutionary Army, various warlords and including the Collaborationist Chinese Army and Manchukuo Imperial Army, as well as Communist guerillas, encompassing the period of the Second ...
Type 85 AAG (WZ554) – 2 × 23 mm, copy of the Soviet ZU-23-2. [67] Type 72 – 85 mm, reported to be the Chinese copy of Soviet M1939 (52-K) Type 59 – 57 mm, copy of the Soviet 57 mm AZP S-60. [68] Type 65/74 – 2 X 37 mm, twin barrel copy of the Soviet 37 mm automatic air defense gun M1939. [69] Type 59 – 100 mm, copy of the Soviet KS ...
Copy of An-2: Y-5A – First mass-produced, version, light passenger transport, equivalent to the An-2T. Y-5B – agricultural aircraft, equivalent to the An-2 SKh. Y-5B-100 – Y-5B aircraft fitted with triple tipsails on the upper wing tips, which reputedly gave 20% higher climb rate and improved L/D ratio by 15%.
On 2 January 2020, a Black Hawk helicopter of the Republic of China Air Force (ROCAF) Air Rescue Group crashed in the Wulai District of New Taipei, Taiwan, while executing a VIP transport mission. [2] General Shen Yi-ming, Republic of China's Chief of the General Staff (CGS), along with seven other personnel on board, died in the accident. [3]
China Aerial refueling: YY-20: 7 [6] Ilyushin Il-78: Soviet Union Aerial refueling: Il-78MP: 3 [6] Transport; Xian Y-7: China Soviet Union Transport: 48 [6] License built variant of the Antonov An-24: Shaanxi Y-8: China Soviet Union Tactical airlifter: 80 [6] License built variant of the Antonov An-12: Shaanxi Y-9: China Tactical airlifter: 24 ...
In 2012, Vladimir Barkovsky of Russian Aircraft Corporation MiG said that while the FC-31 incorporated features from the F-35, the plane's overall design is "not a copy but a well done indigenous design." [88] Articles by the War Zone and Popular Mechanics said there were limits to how far comparisons between the F-35 and J-35 could be made.
In his 2001 book 'The AK-47', Chris McNab claims it is "feasible" that production of the Chinese Type 56 assault rifle – a license-built AK-47 copy – reached 15-20 million. McNab bases that estimate on the "apparent" strength of the Chinese armed forces of 10 million (3 million regular troops and 5-7 million reservists) and presumed export ...