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Engine-less J-11B

The current issue of Aviation News (HangKong Bao) displays a dozen manufactured J11Bs sitting at SAC without engines. This highlights the problem the PLAAF faces due to Shanyang Liming Aircraft Engine company's inability to fulfill all FWS10A (Taihang) orders. As indicted by the SAC's press release on its 2009 performance, it said it had fulfilled its PLAAF contracts "fairly" well. Which is different from previous press releases describing their performance as "very" well.*

Production certification delays prevented the FWS10A from entering mass production until recently. Perhaps this public display of engine-less fighters is SAC telling its partners to work faster.

 

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When your washed brain feel China is threat, and your language become unfriendly and your behavior unreasonable ,then China is really your enemy.
That's not a good idea for you. Then you should not say ,I am not ready .I am just saying it, but the Chinese doing it.
Your expected result will be much worse than that of 1962.

Huge language giant ,
Have a little responsibility for your word, Pls.
 
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When your washed brain feel China is threat, and your language become unfriendly and your behavior unreasonable ,then China is really your enemy.
That's not a good idea for you. Then you should not say ,I am not ready .I am just saying it, but the Chinese doing it.
Your expected result will be much worse than that of 1962.

Huge language giant ,
Have a little responsibility for your word, Pls.

Hey moulignane, what the heck are you goin' on about?

You think you can pull of a 1962? You ain't dealin' with no Nehruvian sh!tpolitik, or a non-Nuclear power. So think again, cucci mama.
 

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When your washed brain feel China is threat, and your language become unfriendly and your behavior unreasonable ,then China is really your enemy.
That's not a good idea for you. Then you should not say ,I am not ready .I am just saying it, but the Chinese doing it.
Your expected result will be much worse than that of 1962.

Huge language giant ,
Have a little responsibility for your word, Pls.
Buddy!! don't fly in day dreams.. Never ever think that 1962 will be repeated again!!! :angry_1: Any conflict with India will turn China back to Stone age....
 

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When your washed brain feel China is threat, and your language become unfriendly and your behavior unreasonable ,then China is really your enemy.
That's not a good idea for you. Then you should not say ,I am not ready .I am just saying it, but the Chinese doing it.
Your expected result will be much worse than that of 1962.

Huge language giant ,
Have a little responsibility for your word, Pls.
What is a 'huge language giant'?

And it is difficult to wash brain without killing yourself.
 

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What is a 'huge language giant'?

And it is difficult to wash brain without killing yourself.
"huge language giant" is a chinese saying, which means "a big mouth" in english!
 

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"huge language giant" is a chinese saying, which means "a big mouth" in english!
Till now I had a feeling that You are the one who Is a language Giant which means big mouth. A mouth that pukes shit first and then start thinking about what he/she said.
 

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China discloses new SD-10 combat capabilities

China's SD-10 beyond visual range air-to-air missile (AAM) may be a considerably more capable weapon than has hitherto been believed. Officials from the SD-10's manufacturer, the Luoyang Electro-Optical Technology Development Centre (LOEC), say the SD-10 was designed from the beginning to function with a dual-mode seeker operating in distinct active and passive radar homing modes. If so, the SD-10 (and current production SD-10A) are the first AAMs to enter service with this acknowledged capability.

In lengthy discussions with LOEC at the Airshow China 2010 in Zhuhai between 16-21 November, the operating modes of the SD-10 were described to Jane's in detail. The missile has an active-radar terminal homing capability which has been public knowledge since the first details of the SD-10 were officially released in the middle of the last decade.

What has remained unspoken until now is the missile's claimed ability to home in on radar or electronic warfare emissions from the target aircraft, without support from the launch aircraft or use of the missile's own active seeker modes.

A LOEC official told Jane's that the passive mode was not intended to be the missile's primary targeting method - and cited the risks to friendly aircraft when relying on passive guidance mode alone. It is not clear if the SD-10's seeker can continuously alternate between active and passive modes in flight, or if it makes a less sophisticated 'one time' switch.

http://www.janes.com/news/defence/jmr/jmr101201_2_n.shtml
 

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Like these two videos. has some good footage...


 
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Chinese and Japanese fighter aircraft Intercept each other

SOURCE : asahi.com

Japanese officials, already concerned about China's growing naval presence in the region, say Chinese military aircraft have started harassing Japanese Self-Defense Forces' aircraft over the East China Sea.

Ever since the September collision between a Chinese trawler and two Japan Coast Guard vessels near the Senkaku Islands in the East China Sea, Chinese military aircraft have started to approach SDF aircraft close enough to identify with the naked eye, sources said.

Along with this new behavior since October, China's air activities against Japan have been substantially stepped up since earlier this year. The number of scrambles that the Air SDF has launched against Chinese aircraft since the beginning of this fiscal year had already reached 44 as of Dec. 22, according to the Defense Ministry.

The figure is the highest in the past five years.

The Maritime SDF has been deploying EP-3 signal intelligence reconnaissance aircraft on top of P-3C patrol aircraft to the airspace northwest of the Nansei island chain on an almost daily basis to monitor Chinese air and naval activities in the area.

The Air SDF routinely intercepts electronic signals with its signal intelligence aircraft.

These reconnaissance aircraft fly within Japan's Air Defense Identification Zone (ADIZ) and around the median line between Japan and China. Because the ADIZ is not the same as territorial airspace, foreign aircraft flying into the zone are not considered to be violating airspace. But failure to notify authorities beforehand about a flight into the zone inevitably leads to aircraft being scrambled.

Until recently, Chinese fighter jets and fighter-bombers had tended to avoid entering Japan's ADIZ. But that changed in October, a month after the Senkaku Islands incident that triggered a major diplomatic row between the two countries.

In October, a JH-7 fighter-bomber of the Chinese Navy not only entered Japan's ADIZ, but also flew past the median line and approached close enough to make a visual identification of the SDF aircraft. Japan considers the median line as marking the boundary of its exclusive economic zone (EEZ).

When SDF aircraft were scrambled, the Chinese aircraft turned around and went back. The two nations are scrambling their aircraft in response to what the other side is doing.

One military insider pointed out that this could lead to a dangerous situation.


"Chinese military pilots are less skilled than Japanese and American pilots and they fly erratically at times," said one official.

There is concern that frequent scrambles could escalate into a major incident like the one in 2001 when a U.S. Navy EP-3 collided in midair with a Chinese fighter jet over the South China Sea, leading to the death of the Chinese pilot.

Chinese aircraft have also become much more bold in their surveillance of Japan's aircraft.

On Dec. 7, during the "Keen Sword" joint military exercise between Japan and the United States, F-15 fighter jets scrambled out of Naha Air Base because an unidentified aircraft was approaching the ADIZ. It eventually entered the ADIZ and flew along the Japan-China median line.

The ASDF fighter pilots visually confirmed that it was a Chinese Navy Y-8X maritime patrol aircraft and returned to the base.

On March 12, a Y-8 airborne early warning (AEW) aircraft for the first time flew past the median line and approached near Japan.

There is speculation that the range of land-based radars along China's coast line facing the East China Sea extends only as far as the median line. However, if an AEW aircraft with a powerful radar system aboard should approach Japan by flying past the median line, Chinese military aircraft theoretically could expand their range of operations to the entire Nansei island chain, including the main Okinawa island.

As of Dec. 22, SDF aircraft had been scrambled 44 times against Chinese aircraft this fiscal year, according to Defense Ministry officials. The figure is already double that for all of fiscal 2006.

One reason for the change in China's policy is evident from a report in a military organ, which said that "Beijing did not consider its EEZ to be part of international waters."

Based on that logic, the report criticized the activity of U.S. military aircraft in the skies over China's EEZ, a sign that the Chinese military is eager to limit such activities.

http://idrw.org/?p=2057
 
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Chinese army puts up post near border


AGARTALA: The new Sino-Indian partnership, premier Wen Jiabao said in India during his recent visit, is one of cooperation, not rivalry and competition. On the ground, though, Beijing's military build-up near India's borders continues.

China's mighty People's Liberation Army (PLA) is building a four-storeyed military facility at a Myanmar border town which is close to the Northeast, the Myanmarese media said on Monday.

The construction of the base, it added, has been on at breakneck speed since August and it won't be too long before it's completed. In its report, Burma News International quoted the Kachin News Group as saying that the facility will house ''several military officers on the border town of Menghai in China's southwest Yunnan province''.

Once completed, it will act as a command post for at least one PLA battalion. The report cited eyewitnesses and former Communist Party of Burma officials as its sources.

The area where the military facility is being built is opposite Mongkoe town in Myanmar's northern Shan State and close to the Tibet-Myanmar-Arunachal trijunction. The closest Indian point is Vahai on the eastern tip of Mizoram.

The report quoted Slg Bum Htoi, a military analyst based in Mongkoe, as saying that it was ''unusual for soldiers of PLA to be stationed near the troubled Burma border''. "I think Chinese troops are being stationed there to monitor foreign troops, especially US soldiers, should they enter Myanmar," he added.




Read more: Chinese army puts up post near border - The Times of India http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/...-border/articleshow/7181579.cms#ixzz19UZa2Vvy
 

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Chinese DF-21D ASBM: Will it Obsolete U.S. Aircraft Carriers?

2010-12-29 (China Military Review cited from defensereview.com and written by David Crane) -- Looks like the "D" version of the Chinese DF-21 medium-range anti-ship ballistic missile (ASBM) is moving into the deployment phase, although an "over the water" flight test has reportedly not yet been conducted. If the DF-21D ASBM ends up working as advertised, however, it may (potentially) effectively obsolete U.S. Navy aircraft carriers in the event of a future direct conflict with China over taiwan. It will mean that the Chinese can essentially sink our aircraft carriers at will, turning them into huge, massively-expensive above-the-water targets (multi-billion-dollar targets, when accompanying aircraft are taken into account) for the taking–easy pickins, if you will. At the very least, the DF-21D, once operational, will change the way the U.S. Navy deploys its carriers in a crisis situation around China.



The kicker is that the DF-21D ASBM (Dong Feng-21D ASBM) doesn't fully represent the extent of China's anti-ship, carrier-sinking capability. In recent years, China has expanded its submarine force, and those submarines carry torpedoes. In the future, they will most likely carry supercavitating torpedoes. Also, it would seem logical that China would also be developing their own supersonic anti-ship cruise missiles, just like Russia and India. Anti-ship missiles are relatively inexpensive compared to aircraft carriers.
Some military strategists may argue that the Chinese wouldn't risk a full-scale war, or even a nuclear exchange, with the United States by sinking one or more of our carriers. Really? Would we (the U.S.) risk a large-scale war or nuclear exchange with China by threatening or initiating a full conventional attack or nuclear strike in response to a lost carrier? Which country can afford to lose more people? Are we willing to trade Washington D.C. and/or Manhattan/New York City (NYC), Los Angeles, or San Francisco for Beijing or Shanghai in a nuclear exchange?

http://www.china-defense-mashup.com/?p=9647
 

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China's Navy Gets Bigger, but Why?

2010-12-29 (China Military Analysis cited from strategypage.com and written by Austin Bay) -- This applies in virtually every realm of human endeavor. The global recession has required painful economic adjustment that in the case of a nation like Greece may take decades to repair. An epidemic can strike, but a vaccine or cure may take years to develop.
It takes years to develop military capabilities, to include weapons technology and training people to use them. In the mid-1930s, Winston Churchill saw Germany expanding its military capabilities. Churchill warned that Adolf Hitler intended to start another European war, but he was ignored. All too often, one man's prescience is another man's paranoid fantasy. Great Britain entered World War II with a small air force, despite the documented expansion of Nazi Germany's Luftwaffe. The British just managed to win the Battle of Britain, but it was a near thing.



Building a navy requires a particularly long lead time. The designing, financing and building of ships requires thinking in terms of at least two decades. Providing experienced commanders and trained crews takes longer.
The Chinese Navy's expansion program began in the 1990s, as China's fleet began to venture away from China's coast and develop blue water (open ocean) capabilities. Now Chinese submarines encounter U.S. Navy task forces, and Chinese warships turn up in the Indian Ocean. China may launch its first aircraft carrier in 2011. It will take years to produce carrier pilots and crew comparable to those in the Navy, but acquiring the technology is a huge step.
What does China intend to do with its carrier? The rest of Asia, from India to Japan, wants to know. For example, Chinese maritime claims in the South China Sea conflict sharply with those of Vietnam and the Philippines. A carrier extends China's offensive reach in this contested sea zone.
The carrier is one piece of a complex puzzle that includes new surface ships, aircraft and missiles. This week, U.S. Pacific Command commander Adm. Robert Willard told a Japanese newspaper that China's Dongfeng 21D anti-ship ballistic missile (ASBM) had achieved "initial operational capability."

http://www.china-defense-mashup.com/?p=9642
 

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Fear of China's Missiles Is Overblown

2010-12-30 (China Military News cited from time.com and written by Rana Foroohar) -- Beltway types are fretting about the comment dropped earlier this week by Admiral Robert Willard, the US commander in the Pacific, about a new ballistic missile developed by the Chinese that could blow American ships out of the water. The missile, which has been in the works for some time, has now reached "initial operational capability," according to comments made by the Admiral to a Japanese newspaper. The news was fuel for defense analysts and foreign policy hawks who have long worried about China's military build-up and what it means for the balance of power in Asia, and the world.
Their hand-wringing, which comes quickly with of any sign of China's rise on the world stage, put me in mind of a giant interactive map I'd seen at Pacific Command in Honolulu in 2009, showing short, medium, and long-term conflict hot spots globally. While most of the immediate problems were terror or ethnic oriented skirmishes in the Middle East, Afghanistan and pakistan, the long-term lights were blinking all over the South China Seas, signifying a rash of expected resource and territorial battles between the Middle Kingdom and its Asian neighbors, along with the U.S.



Certainly, there's reason to pay attention to China's more assertive stance in global affairs. Growing prosperity and confidence has led Beijing to challenge the West's hegemony on everything from trade to technology to currency to security. Certainly, the rise of an affluent young Chinese middle class has led to more nationalism across the board. A recent best-selling book called "The China Dream" argues for a Chinese military build up in preparation for a coming conflict with the U.S.
Yet all the posturing on both sides has obscured a few key facts. First and foremost, China worries a lot more about internal stability than external muscle. Beijing spends much, much more on maintaining domestic obedience (in the form of police, censors, etc) than it does on its military. Deng Xiaoping's wisdom about China having plenty to do at home before it tackles the world at large still holds, perhaps more than ever.
Secondly, the idea of resource related conflict underscores a more important point: China's foreign policy is still by and large an economic policy, driven by its constant need for growth to ensure the stability of the regime. There's no Beijing Consensus. China's movements on the world stage — be they military, human-rights related, financial or otherwise — are all crafted around what will play well at home.
What's more, despite all the talk in Washington, Brussels and elsewhere about the need to contain China's resource nationalism and mercantilist approach, Beijing's policies have so far benefited other countries as much or more than China itself. As merchant banker Ken Miller, the director of the U.S. pavilion at the Shanghai World Expo and a member of the U.S. State Department's Advisory Committee on international economic affairs recently pointed out in an article in Foreign Affairs, with the exception of China's "support for regimes that the U.S. government doesn't much like, Washington should not worry much about Beijing's financial foreign policy."

http://www.china-defense-mashup.com/?p=9658
 

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China deploying carrier killer missile: US commander

China is developing a new anti-ship ballistic missile that can sink US aircrafts, a top Pentagon naval commander has claimed.

He also said China's other military developments are part of the Chinese ambition to extend its area of influence beyond the region and become a global military power.

As such, in an interview to Asahi Simbhun, the popular Japanese newspaper, Admiral Robert Williard, Commander of the US Pacific Command, has warned of an arms race in the region and shift of balance of power in Asia, which he noted is not good for stability in Asia.

"I would say that the military balance is undoubtedly shifting as China's military expands faster than other regional nations, but the strategic balance remains in flux," Willard told the popular Japanese newspaper in an interview given in Honolulu, headquarter of the Pacific Command.

"The anti-ship ballistic missile system in China has undergone extensive testing. An analogy using a Western term would be initial operational capability, whereby it has--I think China would perceive that it has an operational capability now, but they continue to develop it.

"It will continue to undergo testing, I would imagine, for several more years," he told the newspaper.

"I think that the component parts of the anti-ship ballistic missile have been developed and tested," he said.

"The anti-access/area denial capabilities, fully employed, will present a challenge to military operations in the region. That will have to be overcome," he said.

The PACOM Commander said the anti-access/area denial systems being developed by China, more or less, range countries, archipelagos such as Japan, the Philippines and Vietnam, so there are many countries in the region that are falling within the envelope of this, of an A2/AD capability of China.

"That should be concerning--and we know is concerning--to those countries," he said.

"While it may be largely designed to assure China of its ability to affect military operations within its regional waters, it is an expanded capability that ranges beyond the first island chain and overlaps countries in the region. For that reason, it is concerning to Southeast Asia, (and) it remains concerning to the United States," he said.

"This kind of capability should be a concern to the region, and it poses a challenge to any naval or air operations that would be conducted in that area were it to be employed," he said in response to a question, but added that this is not affecting US operations capabilities as of now.

Willard said the tremendous advancement in China's military itself is shifting the overall balance of military powers in the region.

It has been rare in history that any country underpinned by the kind of economic power that China possesses has developed its military so rapidly, he said.

"But at the same time, the other countries in the Asia-Pacific region that are troubled by and uncertain of China's intentions are also advancing their own military capabilities, and this is particularly true in the acquisition of submarines and advanced aircraft.

"We are seeing not only China advance, but (also) the other militaries in the region that can afford it seek to advance alongside," Willard said.

"I think that the nations in the region have a responsibility to be able to maintain security within their territory, and not all of the nations in the Asia-Pacific are self-sufficient militarily.

To an extent, the acquisition of systems (and) the advancement of our regional militaries will assist all of us in sharing the responsibility to maintain security across Asia-Pacific," he said.

"To the extent the acquisitions are specifically to counter China or any other nation's growing military, it would raise the question whether or not those acquisitions are properly balanced to achieve self-sufficiency or whether it's targeted against counter-balancing other military powers," Willard said.


http://www.brahmand.com/news/China-deploying-carrier-killer-missile-US-commander/5929/1/13.html
 

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Chinese Excalibur ?!

Excalibur is a precision guided 155mm Artillery munition with an integrated GPS tracking system that gives it an accuracy unachievable by older rounds. The XM982 Excalibur was a joint development between Raytheon, Primex and KDI and saw action in Iraq for the first time in 2007.





Judging from this PLA Daily article, the PLA is fielding it also.

Mechanized infantry division kicks off new training session

(Source: PLA Daily) 2011-01-13

  A mechanized infantry division of the Nanjing Military Area Command has conducted five confrontation drills in succession between the "red" and "blue" armies since the training session of this year kicked off in January. The reporters found that it was a new move taken by the division to start training session with drillings of highly difficult subjects.

  At the training range, the satellite-guided new-type artilleries of the "red" army launched shells towards the amphibious tanks of the "blue" army which were beyond the shooting range, in a bid to test the "precision strike under verge conditions", a prize-winning training subject last year in the army group. While the "blue" army was unwilling to be outdone, under the coverage of electromagnetic interference, a group of new-type amphibious tanks launched a sudden attack on the "red" army's flank side.

  "The troops were greeted by highly difficult subjects at the beginning of the new training session, thus their enthusiasm in training has been blazed up", an officer told the reporters, and a lot of servicemen in the division had the same feeling.

  A training schedule of the division showed that nearly one hundred confrontation drillings involving highly difficult training subjects would be staged in succession in the next few days.










 

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China doesn't even have access to NAVSTAR military channels. The civilian signal they get are not good enough for guided weapons. Any GPS guided munition they promote that doesn't have an extra seeker is just bunk.
 

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China doesn't even have access to NAVSTAR military channels. The civilian signal they get are not good enough for guided weapons. Any GPS guided munition they promote that doesn't have an extra seeker is just bunk.
LOL, have u heared "beidou"system.if not,Google it.
 

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