Michael Drummond
China's status as a military superpower was on full display as Beijing marked the 80th anniversary of the end of the Second World War.
Tens of thousands of troops, tanks and armoured vehicles moved through Tiananmen Square on Wednesday, along with a fearsome array of missiles. Fighter jets soared overhead.
While ostensibly a day to mark the decades since the end of the world's biggest war, it's clear that Xi Jinping was looking towards the future in the message he sent to the West.
"They want to advertise to the world that they're doing old and new," military analyst Michael Clarke told Sky News. "So they were showing the enormity of what they've got in in traditional terms, but also some of the new things."
Indeed, the event featured many weapons and equipment that had never been seen in public before.
In this story, Sky News looks at what units and military hardware were on display in the Chinese capital.
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