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January 23, 2019: At the end of 2018 the new Chinese ZTQ 15 light tank was officially accepted into army service. A month earlier large and accurate scale models of the ZTQ 15 were put on display at ...
Chinese cultural relics researchers announced a new discovery on Saturday, ... According to Bai, scale armor is mostly found in Han Dynasty tombs and is usually made with a single material, ...
A set of scale armor dating back to the Western Han Dynasty (206BC-AD25) was recently found in the tomb of Liu He, the Marquis of Haihun. ... Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, ...
Whereas Han Dynasty scales reached a size of about 1.57 to 3.94 inches wide, the refined armor scales in Liu He’s tomb were unusually small at .39 inches wide and .02 inches thick, putting the ...
A tipster sent us a link to a post on some new Chinese body armor and an intriguing digital camouflage pattern their troops are wearing. We posted a story several months ago where some new digital ...
Is there a China connection with Iraq and Afghanistan? Yes, according to a departing senior Pentagon official, who says that the Chinese-origin armor-piercing bullets — of particular concern to ...
For light-weight armor that combines strength with flexibility, MIT scientists look to the scales of the dragon fish, a tough species that's been around since the Cretaceous. Written by Janet Fang ...