'Transform and roll out!': PLA troops in China build their own ‘Transformer'

A group of PLA soldiers in China have built their own take on the next generation of high-tech weaponry – a four-metre high model based on the futuristic Transformers action movies.

The model of the robotic being was made from old engines, gears, springs and other discarded car parts, China Military Online reported.

Four soldiers from the frontier corps in eastern Jiangsu province have spray painted it in battle fatigues and armed it with a machine gun and laid belts of bullets across its chest.

It took the soldiers three months to build in their spare time, according to the report.

The troops’ work has been praised by the Communist Party newspaper the People’s Daily, which said they had taken “recycling to a higher level”.