With Just 6 Days To Go,

a quick look at China's Victory Day parade, 

marking the 70th anniversary of China's defeat of Japan in World War II, on 3rd September, in addition to its 12,000 troops, 500 vehicles and 200 aircraft, China will be hosting ten foreign military parade formations, including Cambodia, Egypt, Mexico, Mongolia, Pakistan and Russia leading the airshow there will be a giant KJ-2000 AEWC aircraft, flanked by J-10 fighters of the Bayi aviation aerobatics team,

the ZTZ-99A main battle tank will be one of the main parade attractions, weighing over 60 tons, the heavily armoured ZTZ-99A is the largest tank in the world that's not of US or allied design,

using two rapid firing, programmable 35mm smart shell cannons, the PGZ-07 can keep up with tanks and take out flying targets,

the ATF-10 missile launcher vehicle uses a ZBD-07 armoured chassis, carrying 8 ready-to-launch, fire-and-forget anti-tank missiles, the ATF-10 missile has a range of ten kilometres, making this missile akin to an anti-tank sniper able to pick off enemy armoured vehicles while staying out of danger,

in its first public debut, the YJ-12 supersonic antiship missile is carried on trucks, the YJ-12 is China's deadliest anti-ship missile, an 8 meter long, 2-ton missile, the YJ-12 can reach speeds above Mach 3.5, and a range of about 400km,

and the star of the show, the DF-26 Intermediate Range Ballistic Missile (IRBM) is perhaps the biggest star of the parade, it's a solid fuelled, 4000km-range missile, transported on a 12X12 TEL vehicle for quick off-road launches, so notebooks and cameras out for the big day, many thanks to Jeffrey Lin and P.W. Singer for the above information.