So the Z10 Is just a response to the apache
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zero “Chinese” intuition went into the Z10, they merely saw what America was doing and copied their home work. The major difference is Boeing came up with their own design.
For example, the CIRCM (or the DCIRM) on the Apache was first developed in 2009, i find it a little weird that China in 2017 had the same idea years later with a very familiar looking layout.
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Historically speaking China has been copying for a while, the only reason China has the T62 is because they had a border skirmish with Russia and hit a T62 with a mine a captured it. This is also know as the Т-62 №545, the Chinese have been building and copying for a while now. Some of their newest tanks though have been Chinese design, for example the type 100 they took a lot of ideas in the market already and put it into there own design. Now is it good? No one knows, its very similar to the M10 Booker and the new indian Zorawar.
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thats not a good analogy
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Taiwan never bought AGM 179s but Hellfire-L (longbow) versions with shortwave radar guidance, coupled with inertial guidance !
Taiwan even has them mounted on civilian missile-launching trucks. In the photo, where soldiers are loading a Hellfire into its mount, you can literally see “L” written on the Hellfire’s head.
AH-64E + hellfire L
zero “american” intuition went into the F15, they merely saw what the Soviet Union was doing and copied their home work. The major difference is Mikoyan came up with their own design.
Where else are they supposed to put It?
On the bottom like the russians did with the Mi28 in order to have bigger weakspots?
Same as above, where were they supposed to put them then mr. Helicopter designer?
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Have you not seen the F-108?
Next thing your going to say that the Su-27 (T-10) had nothing to do with the “stolen” wind tunnel data for the NA-335
The type 100 is very similar in function and likely role as the zorawar and the late M10, but not in firepower, if what they say it’s true the type 100 will likely have superior anti armor capabilities than the type 99b
I mean if we exclude the fact there is no similarity beyond a very very very light external resemblance then sure.
Yes they copied the apache, that’s literally the one of the best ways to design an attack helicopter as of now surely the most combat proven design, even we Italians went full apache with the fenice
Sure it’s a copy but attack helicopters have no reason to change much from a airframe standpoint, you can make them faster you cannot make them fast enough however an helicopter doing 350kph is as dead as one doing 280 in any realistic danger scenario. And small attack helis have little place in a modern battlefield imo, they have sufficient sensors but afaik they have little room and power for modern defensive systems.
based on a “McDonald Douglas design”
Hmm either that’s American or its a funny name for a Russian guy.
This comment alone tells me you struggle to read well known facts about how vehicles were made or designed, a simple google search but no instead of logic in this discussion, just raw salty anger with nothing to back it.
| ntroduction date | 1990 |
|---|---|
| First flight | 11 September 1983[2][3] |
| Developed into | TAI/AgustaWestland T129 ATAK |
I dont think 8 years is nearly enough to copy a design, at least i wont call it copying.
just look at the AH-1, you dont have to fantasize about how everything is apache when godfather of all attack helicopters is there
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