Tanker's Tuesday: 8 Upcoming Main Battle Tanks

8 Upcoming Main Battle Tanks of the world

Tanker's Tuesday : Chinese Armored Brigades

Spanish Plan to Conquer China

A crazy idea but neat idea for a miniature campaign 

Tanker's Tuesday: Chinese Tanks in Modern Warfare

Tanker's Tuesday: Chinese Army Armored Unit

An armored unit of the Chinese army has thrown open its doors to inspection by domestic and foreign media. The following video shows you what they found.

Werid War (Korea)

A friend of mine has a rather interesting weird war idea set in Korea .

HMMMMM would there be a Chinese weaponized dragon fighting from the north? ;)

Target Locked

Korean War - China Infantry Assault

This one has an almost medieval feel to it despite the explosions and gunfire.

I can't attest to it's accuracy but, it would make for a hell of a miniatures game!

TRAILER: Unbreakable Spirit (2018) - Starring Bruce Willis (English Trai...

As avid aviation fans, especially of those vintage aircraft, hearing a new World War II movie about air battles is coming out is quite exciting. Unfortunately, we might have to pump our excitement brakes for the movie that’s about to hit theaters on October 26th, 2018.

The Bombing was the working title of the project before its final release as Unbreakable Spirit. | Credit: forumn.dvdtalk.com

Called Unbreakable Spirit, this movie revolves around the attacks on Chongqing during World War II between 1939 and 1943. During that time, the Japanese raided the city almost 300 times making it quite a historical point in history. It was part of Japan’s terror bombing operations during which they dropped more than 11,500 incendiary bombs on residential areas such as schools, hospitals and residential dwellings.

ZKZM-500 Laser Assault Rifle

As the U.S. prepares for war in space, China’s bringing the space war home. Its ZKZM-500 laser assault rifle is reportedly capable of hitting a target from a kilometer away, igniting flammable objects, and burning through human skin. And it’s ready for production, the researchers behind the project claim.

A weapon that fires a destructive laser beam has been a dream of military researchers for decades. The US military has recently had some luck with huge laser-firing cannons that are intended to be mounted on ships or trucks and can take down a drone by burning through its body. But effective laser rifles for use by individual soldiers have been stuck in the land of fantasy. The South China Morning Post, however, spoke with researchers at the Xian Institute of Optics and Precision Mechanics (at the Chinese Academy of Sciences) who say they have developed a powerful laser rifle that will soon be in the hands of Chinese police who focus on anti-terrorism. From the report:

The 15mm calibre weapon weighs three kilos (6.6lb), about the same as an AK-47, and has a range of 800 metres, or half a mile, and could be mounted on cars, boats and planes...
In the event of a hostage situation it could be used to fire through windows at targets and temporarily disable the kidnappers while other units move in to rescue their captives.
It could also be used in covert military operations. The beam is powerful enough to burn through a gas tank and ignite the fuel storage facility in a military airport.

The gun is entirely silent and its beam is invisible, the vivid report alleges. A target wouldn’t know what’s happening, apparently, until a hole burned through their clothes in the blink of an eye and their skin and tissue experienced “instant carbonization” that, in the best case scenario, would leave a permanent scar. One researcher told the Morning Post that “the pain will be beyond endurance.” If the unfortunate target happened to be wearing flammable clothing, they could go up in flames, according to the report.
At $15,000-a-piece, the ZKZM-500 sounds relatively inexpensive, especially if you consider that it doesn’t require traditional ammunition. The weapon’s lithium battery can apparently handle over 1,000 laser bursts that last around two seconds each. But even though that cost would be feasible for some civilians, the technology is expected to be restricted for military and police use only.
Even that level of use could face pushback from other countries. As the Morning Postpoints out, the United Nations Protocol on Blinding Laser Weapons came into force in 1998 and has been signed by 108 nations around the world. It bans the use of weapons that are specifically designed to cause permanent blindness, but as part of the Convention on Certain Conventional Weapons, it lacks any real mechanisms for enforcement.
While hostage and anti-terrorist situations are being discussed as the most likely scenarios for these weapons to be used in the short-term, a promotional document uploaded to a Chinese government website and seen by the Morning Post also highlights its potential for use against “illegal protests.” China’s grip on the internet has tightened over recent years, making it more difficult to organize dissent.

Tanker's Tuesday : VT-4

The VT-4’s roots are in the Al-Khalid tank developed in the 1990s. The Al-Khalid tank was largely built with mostly Chinese and Pakistani technology, but a sore spot for the Chinese designers was their lack of ability to provide a power plant for the tank. The engines for the tank had to be sourced from Germany or Ukraine. Ukraine ended up providing the production run for the Al-Khalid tank. As a result, the VT-4 program’s primary objective when it began in 2009 was to build an indigenous power plant for future domestic and export tanks. Due to the success of this engine development program, many VT-4 marketing materials tout the reliability and performance of its engine.

VT-4

100 Years of the Chinese Military Uniform in 10 minutes

BATTLEFIELD PILSEN: Project Moon Grunt

BATTLEFIELD PILSEN: Project Moon Grunt: From the blue-white vistas over Earth, to the ocher sands of Mars We are vanguard of Man´s rise, from the earth out to the stars As human...

Tanker's Tuesday - Tank Battles of Korea

                                            In 1950 the world is caught off guard as North Korea launches a massive

armored assault into South Korea. This is the story of the American
tankers

who rush to the aid of the South and the bloody battles they
fight up and

down the Korean Peninsula.

Tanker's Tuesday : Chinese ZBL-09 Snow Leopard

The new Chinese ZBL-09 Snow Leopard armored personnel carrier was developed by NORINCO. It is a new family of 8x8 armored vehicles. Development commenced in the 1990s. This vehicle was heavily influenced by both Western and Russian armored personnel carriers. This APC was first seen in 2006 undergoing road tests. It was first publicly revealed in 2009.

   Chinese ZBL-09 Snow Leopard