Comments on: China’s Scale Model

By: Wayno

Wayno — Thu, 20 Aug 2009 09:07:37 +0000

The trucks are parked behind a series of buildings. Official looking ones to the south facing the entrance and barracks like ones behind them creating a square.

If I was looking at this without context, I would say it looks like a school.

6000 people sounds about right for a tank division.

By: Oscar

Oscar — Fri, 18 Aug 2006 13:01:49 +0000

there are 150 trucks parked by the location, do you think they need ~6000 people for just creating simulation?

By: Marty

Marty — Mon, 07 Aug 2006 13:28:03 +0000

Or maybe, just maybe, they’re developing some top-secret REALLY HUGE TANK for the next invasion… something “to scale” ya dig?

maybe…

By: Andrew

Andrew — Mon, 07 Aug 2006 03:35:28 +0000

I think they might use it as a scale model for a camera to be displayed on a screen in a tank simulator, making it seem much more real than computer-generating the graphics. Similar stuff is sometimes done for flight simulators, moving a small camera through a cityscape. However, I’ve never heard of anything this big, and I don’t know how they’d move the camera. There may be an elaborate system of cables we can’t see.

By: cookie monster

cookie monster — Sun, 06 Aug 2006 22:42:05 +0000

Tank training?
So do the tank drivers negotiate the terrain in teeny tiny scale model tanks?
Not bloomin likely!

There does however seem to be a lot of vehicular activity in and around the complex.

This really fries my head – what ARE they doing???????