Posted on 01/12/2009 3:23:08 AM PST by pobeda1945
BEIJING, Jan. 12 (Xinhua) -- The "Mengshi (Warriors)" off-road military vehicle produced by Chinese automaker Dongfeng Motor surpasses U.S. Humvee in 12 out of 15 major battlefield performance indices, chief designer Huang Song has said.
Use by the Chinese military force has proven that "Mengshi" overtakes Humvee in 12 indices, including the loading capacity andoil consumption, and are well-matched with Humvee in three other indices, Huang was quoted as saying by Monday's Economic Information Daily, a Xinhua publication.
It took Dongfeng six years to develop the vehicle, which had undergone more than 200,000 hours of factory tests and more than 1.6 million kilometers of road tests before mass production.
The vehicle was formally equipped to the People's Liberation Army in 2007.
"Mengshi" has also passed various environmental and geological tests, including airdropping, high altitude and extreme heat and cold weather conditions.
With 75 patents, the 1.5-ton high mobility vehicle met all military requirements, said Huang.
It also won the first class award of national science and technology progress at the 2008 State Top Scientific and Technological Awarding Conference here last Friday.
This was the first such award won by the auto industry in 22 years.
Interesting that China didn’t post a photo of their vehicle with their article. The appearance of it must be top secret or something(??).
I hope its crash tests are better than the Chinese Chery car: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3F3nLj9ljWo
There is a pic at this link. It looks familiar somehow. Hmm.
http://eng.wcetv.com/1/2009/01/12/125s9381.htm
Indices aren't mentioned. :-\
Rear seat legroom, glove compartment capacity and ease of hubcap removal?
Dofeng Mengshi
No word on a civilian version for the Chinese and foreign export market.
"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus
Yet another Chinese clone! Wonder if that’ll end up on ebay?
"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus
Urban Gorilla: http://www.4x4bodies.com/ turns just about any SUV/pickup into a Hummer H1 clone in various configurations.
"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus
The article says it has 75 patents. Curious that the Chi-com copycats are suddenly concerned about patents.....
"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus
If I was not reading the story I’d have said “Hummer”.
For Glorious report of Better Chinese Humveeee...er Mengshi, we mean.
Better Chinese testing agents have found that glorious Chinese Humveeee...er Mengshi, we mean, out performs lowly and badly made U.S. vehicles.
Unbiased Chinese testing further confirms that glorious Chinese Humveeee...er Mengshi, we mean, will always be better than capitalist pig American vehicle.
Chinese testing was performed without telling testing agents that they would be imprisoned in a hole so dark that no light gets in nor were they threatened that their organs would be ripped from their still war bodies and sold on black market. Testing agents swore of their own free will that glorious Chinese Humveeee...er Mengshi, we mean, is best ever seen in whole of world.
We are just better. Face it pigs.
The HMMWV went into service in 1984. The Chinese are copying it 20 years later and this is somehow impressive?
They're trying to rehabilitate their image as an outlaw nation on the issue of intellectual properties. What they're doing is known as "patent breaking." Thomas Edison was a very prolific patent breaker. He carefully examined a competitor's patent application, helpfully published by the patent office years before the patent was granted, and developed a way to "work around" the patent with a similar device that would not infringe his competitor's patent. The Chinese are doing this.
Under international law, patents expire after 20 years. It means that if your company spent the millions of dollars to develop something like antilock brakes or GPS, and hundreds of thousands more to obtain worldwide patent rights, your market share and your employees' job security will only last 20 years before somebody in Malaysia can build it for 20 cents an hour. You can either lower your prices cheaper than theirs, or you can go back to the drawing board and develop something new.
I saw no evidence of it when we went to China for Nortel. They confiscated our RF test gear and we sat in a hotel room for almost three weeks waiting to get it back. They could have just as easily bought it on the open market and copied it. It was commonly available test gear, nothing secret. When we did get it back it was obvious it had been disassembled, inspected and reassembled, only nothing worked. Kinda reminds me of that Chinese crescent wrench I threw into some bushes on a site in Kentucky after it jammed at a most inopportune moment. It did look like a crescent wrench, though.....
Rear seat legroom, glove compartment capacity and ease of hubcap removal?
You weren't looking in the right place, the correct specs are:
Rear seat regroom
Grove compartment capacity
Ease of hubcap removar
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