The BBC World New today (Thurs Feb 18) highlighted a Chinese company
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that makes full sized replicas that you can actually drive (not the aircraft replicas though.) The TV clip showed a Japanese WWII tank as well as a modern MBT that looked convincing enough to give any military armor wannabe an organism. The two man crew manned the turret and one in the driver's seat. A closer look shows its thin steel plate construction.
[Chengdu Ying Ming Culture Dissemination Co, Ltd (short for Ying Ming Company) is a professional company that specializes in producing and designing the high-level simulated military models, professionally manufacturing the models of aircrafts, rockets, submarines, tanks, vehicles, weapon of land battle of various scales;]
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