China Military News & Updates

[jamwal]

A list of ~490 Radar and ~280 SAM sites and units in China with details about their #ORBAT and locations. Read on website or download in PDF or e-book format. It's not complete, but good enough for now.

Chinese Armed Forces ORBAT Part 7: Radars and SAMs - अरे यायावर रहेगा याद?

ABOUT This text is the second part of a monograph I’m writing on ORBAT of Chinese Armed Forces. It covers Chinese Radar and long range Surface To Air Missile sites. The first one was about Chinese Rocket Forces and you can find it on...

jjamwal.in

 

[SexyChineseLady]

Did you know that China has completed 40 FFGs of one type? The Type 054A must be the most successful frigate in the modern era. Most frigates around the world have a production run of around a half dozen!

Now on to the 054B.


Google translate from Japanese:
The 40th Type 054A frigate will soon be launched.
The construction of the 054A type was successfully completed and the construction of the successor ship began.

 

[SexyChineseLady]

J-31 for export to Middle East?! There had a lot of rumors in past year from Arab websites and sources:

 

[SexyChineseLady]

J-31 for export to Middle East?! There had a lot of rumors in past year from Arab websites and sources:

A lot of rumors! But J-20 is very unlikely.

 

[SexyChineseLady]

Cadence on Chinese carriers are on high gear as experience and training take hold. This picture is of the Liaoning. Looks like 24 J-15s and three helos on flight deck!

 

[SexyChineseLady]

Chinese carriers are crazy packed despite being over 65K tons each!

Especially the rear.

The blast shields help. Otherwise you need to leave a section of the deck to account for the engine wash.

Just 10 years ago, China had no carriers. Now she is able to operate two carriers with fully packed decks.

 

[SexyChineseLady]

How J-15's are positioned to launch a strike or CAP package! The blast shields are critical in allowing large numbers of aircraft behind the launchpoints:

 

[SexyChineseLady]

Interacting with the forces of the US and Japan on a routine basis!

 

[SexyChineseLady]

The Liaoning is 10-years-old in PLAN service and 34 years old overall and still very busy!

 

[SexyChineseLady]

Chinese/Russian combined fleet off Alaska. Includes a Type 055!

 

[Soldier355]

The Chinese company China Kestrel Defense is testing robotic systems for landing robots. In the video, a drone drops a weapon-mounted dog on the roof of the robot's house. While the system is being tested, the authorities hope to mass-produce military robots as soon as possible.

 

[SexyChineseLady]

Type 056s are being transferred to China Coast Guard!

 

[SexyChineseLady]

A total of 22 are reported to be transferred over. The SSM and SAM will be removed for the CG but the 76MM main gun will be kept.

 

[rockdog]

LOL

China Recruiting Former R.A.F. Pilots to Train Its Army Pilots, U.K. Says (Published 2022)

Citing national security, Britain wants to stop its retired military pilots from accepting lucrative contracts to train members of the People’s Liberation Army.

www.nytimes.com

 

[SexyChineseLady]

LOL

China Recruiting Former R.A.F. Pilots to Train Its Army Pilots, U.K. Says (Published 2022)

Citing national security, Britain wants to stop its retired military pilots from accepting lucrative contracts to train members of the People’s Liberation Army.

www.nytimes.com

China is very practical and pragmatic.

 

[SexyChineseLady]

Liaoning deployments mean plenty of flying time and hands-on training for everyone! lol

Chinese Aircraft Carrier Deployment Prompted Record Japanese Fighter Scrambles - USNI News

In a six-month period from April to September, Japanese fighters scrambled 446 times to intercept threatening aircraft from China and Russia, according to the Japanese Ministry of Defense. Many of the aircraft intercepted belonged to the air wing embarked on the People’s Liberation Army Navy...

news.usni.org

Chinese Aircraft Carrier Deployment Prompted Record Japanese Fighter Scrambles
By: Dzirhan Mahadzir
October 17, 2022 4:33 PM

In a six-month period from April to September, Japanese fighters scrambled 446 times to intercept threatening aircraft from China and Russia, according to the Japanese Ministry of Defense.
Many of the aircraft intercepted belonged to the air wing embarked on the People’s Liberation Army Navy aircraft carrier CNS Liaoning (16).

The Japan Air Self-Defense Force (JASDF) scrambled its fighter aircraft 446 times in the first half of the 2022 Japanese fiscal year, in contrast to 390 scrambles in the same period last year, the Joint Staff Office (JSO) in the Ministry of Defense reported on Friday.

The bulk of the scrambles happened because of Chinese aircraft activities, which accounted for 340 scrambles, or 76 percent of the overall total. The scrambles against Chinese aircraft in the first half of FY 2022 also increased by 59 from FY 2021’s total of 281 in the same period.

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In the appendix of the release, the JSO listed 20 specific days with events that caused JASDF aircraft to scramble. Eleven of those days had scrambles in response to J-15 fighter aircraft launched from Liaoning from May 3 to May 15. The Liaoning Carrier Strike Group was conducting drills around Japan in that period, with the then Japanese Defense Minister Nobuo Kishi saying at the time that fighters and helicopters from Liaoning launched more than 100 times around Japan so far. The carrier was mostly operating near the disputed Senkaku Islands near Taiwan on the edge of the South China Sea at the time.

 

[SexyChineseLady]

On the other hand, CV-17 Shandong was in South China Seas just last month in September. Very heavy load of J-15s!

 

[Soldier355]

The first footage of the test flight of the new Chinese stealth reconnaissance and strike UAV CH-7 has appeared. Outwardly, the CH-7 resembles the American reconnaissance drone RQ-170 Sentinel. In 2011, the US lost one such drone in western Afghanistan, and Iran later announced that they had the drone. The China Aerospace Science and Technology Corporation commented on the similarity with the RQ-170 as follows: "The capabilities of the CH-7 are far superior to the American drone RQ-170 and are close in their characteristics to the RQ-180." The length of the CH-7 is 10 m, the wingspan is 22 m, the maximum takeoff weight is 13 tons. The UAV flight altitude is over 10 km, the speed is 900 km/h, the flight time is 15 hours.

 

[Dark Sorrow]

Can anyone comment on PLAN's experience with Su-33?
Is PLAN facing same issues as IN with Mig-29?
If yes, how is PLAN addressing this issues and if now how PLAN managed to avoid this issues.

 

[SexyChineseLady]

A very popular Z-20 pilot in training on Chinese mil circles!