China Military News & Updates

[W.G.Ewald]

Look what I found:

Army Recognition - Army Recognition

You can go there and find your own pictures.

 

[Kunal Biswas]

 

[cir]

China defence budget up by 11%, exceeds $100bn

China boosts defence budget by 11.2 percent for 2012 | Reuters

BEIJING | Sun Mar 4, 2012 4:14am GMT

BEIJING (Reuters) - China will boost military spending by 11.2 percent this year, the government said on Sunday, unveiling Beijing's first defence budget since President Barack Obama launched a "pivot" to reinforce U.S. influence across the Asia-Pacific.

The rise was announced by Li Zhaoxing, the spokesman for China's parliament, and will bring official spending on the People's Liberation Army to 670.2 billion yuan (69 billion pounds) for 2012, after a 12.7 percent increase last year and a nearly unbroken string of double-digit rises across over two decades.

"China is committed to the path of peaceful development and follows a defensive national defence policy," Li told a news conference ahead of the annual session of the National People's Congress, the Communist Party-controlled parliament that will approve the budget.

"China has 1.3 billion people, we have a large territory and a long coast line but our defence spending is relatively low compared with other major countries," he added, in comments carried live on state television.

Beijing's public budget is widely thought to undercount real spending on its rapid military modernisation, which has unnerved Asian neighbours and drawn repeated calls from Washington for China to share more about its intentions.

The Pentagon's budget, however, still far exceeds the PLA's, something China likes to point out.

"China's defence spending as a share of GDP in 2011 was only 1.28 percent. For the United States, Britain and other countries the figures all exceeded two percent," Li said.

"China's limited military strength is aimed at safeguarding sovereignty, national security and territorial integrity. It will not pose a threat at all to other countries."

Obama has sought to reassure Asian allies that the United States will stay a key player in the area, and the Pentagon has said it will "rebalance toward the Asia-Pacific region."

China has sought to balance long-standing wariness about U.S. moves with a desire for steady relations with Washington, especially as both governments focus on domestic politics this year, when Obama faces a re-election fight and China's ruling Communist Party undergoes a leadership handover.

(Writing by Ben Blanchard; Editing by Sanjeev Miglani)

 

[qazwsx]

It looks cool but the description in Chinese clearly said it was just a imagination or design of a military fan, not a real thing. The title is like "DF 41, the missile imagined in our mind"

 

[satish007]

cir, are your jobs just copy and paste,what's your opinon?
if I were you, I will change my job even I can get tons of 50cents per day.
I guess Chinese Military officers can get more these staff, who own this brand?

 

[pmaitra]

^^

Even if it is imagination, it is close enough to reality. See this post.

 

[huaxia rox]

satish007...evry one does copy and paste without giving opinion kind of crap and whats your point?u never do this?

in terms of the pic u posted my opinion is the defence buget of prc is way to small compared to what the nation really needs and an 11.2 growth is letting me down as usual. besides...a lot of PLA high ranking officers r using cars that r way too expensive like the 1 u posted (its an armed police 1 to be accrurate)....i believe that they should try to avoid buying this yet who knows if thats something really gonna happen.....

 

[huaxia rox]

if there were dongfeng-41...spy settallites from the US and russia would have spotted it already....no info is up there however....so no dongfeng-41 at all from where i m standing at least for now....

 

[J20!]

cir, are your jobs just copy and paste,what's your opinon?
if I were you, I will change my job even I can get tons of 50cents per day.
I guess Chinese Military officers can get more these staff, who own this brand?

Try being informative for once like cir is or just shut up...

 

[satish007]

Try being informative for once like cir is or just shut up...

Yes,sir.

 

[Kunal Biswas]

if there were dongfeng-41...spy settallites from the US and russia would have spotted it already....no info is up there however....so no dongfeng-41 at all from where i m standing at least for now....

That is the best speculation its a DF-41, Its been the speculation since 2006..

 

[LurkerBaba]

PLA PLAAF and PLAN News And Updates

This thread is not for pictures. Related content to be merged

 

[LurkerBaba]

Chinese Navy (PLAN)

This thread is not for pictures. Related content to be merged

 

[LurkerBaba]

Chinese Army (PLA)

This thread is not for pictures. Related content to be merged

 

[john70]

Starting this thread with some general information from wiki :

The People's Liberation Army Air Force (PLAAF) (simplified Chinese: 中国人民解放军空军; traditional Chinese: 中國人民解放軍空軍; pinyin: Zhōngguó Rénmín Jiěfàngjūn Kōngjūn) is the aviation branch of the People's Liberation Army, the military of the People's Republic of China.

In 2010, the PLAAF had approximately
330,000 personnel and
2,500+ aircraft, of which
1,617 were combat aircraft;[1]
The PLAAF was the largest air force in Asia, and the third largest in the world behind the United States Air Force and the Russian Air Force.

This does not include PLA Naval Aviation which had 26,000 personnel and 570 aircraft (290 combat aircraft).[2]

 

[john70]

Presently serving fighter aircrafts in PLAAF :

Fighter aircraftS in PLAAF :

Su-30 = around 100 ( mkk + mk2 )
Su-27 = around 76
Jian-11 = around 140
Jian-10 = around 200
FC-1/JF-17 = mainly for export
Jian-8II = around 180
Jian-7 = around 350

 

[john70]

Jian-10 Multirole Fighter Aircraft

The Jian-10 (J-10) is a multirole, all-weather fighter aircraft designed for both air-to-air and air-to-ground missions. The aircraft was designed by the Chengdu Aircraft Design Institute (611 Institute) and built by the Chengdu Aircraft Corporation (CAC) of AVIC. The aircraft has been operational with the PLA Air Force (PLAAF) since 2003. The J-10 is available in the single-seat fighter variant J-10 and two-seater fighter-trainer variant J-10S. A further improved single-seat fighter variant designated J-10B reportedly made its maiden flight in February 2009.

Design :

The J-10 adopts a "tailless delta-canard" aerodynamic layout, which was originally developed for the cancelled J-9 fighter. The aircraft has the horizontal control surfaces moved forward to become a canard in front of the wing. When the aircraft pitches up, instead of forcing the tail down decreasing overall lift, the canard lifts the nose, increasing the overall lift. Because the canard is picking up the fresh air stream instead of the wake behind the main wing, the aircraft can achieve better control authority with a smaller-size control surface, thus resulting in less drag and less weight.

The aircraft employs an adjustable, chin-mounted air intake that supplies air to the single Lyulka-Saturn AL-31FN afterburning turbofan jet engine. The upper portion of the air intake is incorporated with an intake ramp designed to generate a rearward leaning oblique shock wave to aid the inlet compression process. The ramp sits at an acute angle to deflect the intake air stream from the longitudinal direction. This design created a gap between the air intake and the forward fuselage, and requires six small beams to enhance the structure for high-speed flight. This air intake design was reportedly replaced by a diffuser supersonic inlet (DSI) on the latest J-10B variant.

The tailless delta-canard configuration is inherently aerodynamically unstable, which provides a high level of agility, particularly at supersonic speeds. However, this requires a sophisticated computerised control system, or "fly-by-wire" (FBW), to provide artificial stabilisation and gust elevation to give good control characteristics throughout the flight envelope. The J-10 uses a digital quadruplex (four-channel FBW system developed by the 611 Institute. The software for the FBW system was developed by the 611 Institute using ADA language.

The pilot sits in the cockpit located above the air intake and in front of the canard. The two-piece bubble canopy gives the pilot great vision at all directions, a vital feature during air-to-air combat. The onboard digital flight control computer 'flies' the aircraft for the pilot, providing automatic flight coordination and keeping the aircraft from entering potentially dangerous situations such as unintentional slops or skids. This therefore frees the pilot to concentrate on his intended tasks during the combat.

Radar

CAC revealed that the J-10 is equipped with an indigenous fire-control radar featuring a mechanically slewed planar array antenna, capable of tracking 10 targets and engaging 2 (using semi-active radar-homing AAM) or 4 (using active radar-homing AAM) of them simultaneously. Possibly based on Russian or Israeli technologies, the radar is believed to be comparable to the early 1990s-era Western fighter radar designs. Alternatively the J-10 could be fitted with a range of fire-control radar introduced by Russian, Israeli, and European manufacturers on its export variant.



The glass cockpit in the rear seat of this J-10S fight-trainer is clearly visible (Chinese Internet)

Cockpit

The cockpit of the J-10 features a "Hands On Throttle And Stick" (HOTAS) controls that enable operation of weapon systems while hands remain on these critical aircraft controls. There is one colour and two monochrome liquid crystal multifunctional display (MFD) that allow pilot to view flight data, weapon status, and target information by pressing a button; a wide field of view head-up display (HUD) that displays flight data and target information in front of the pilot. The aircraft could also use the indigenous helmet-mounted sight (HMS) that enables fast reaction in air-to-air combat.

Weapons

Fixed Weapon & Pylons

The fixed armament of the J-10 includes an internally-mounted Type 23-3 twin-barrel 23mm cannon, located on the port side of the front landing gear. The gas-operated cannon has a combat weight of 50.5kg, a length of 1,530mm, and a maximum rate of fire of 3,000~3,4000 rounds/minute. The cannon fires 320g, 23X200mm high-explosive/incendiary with tracer round and armour-piercing round, with a muzzle velocity of 715m/s. The cannon is electric-driven using 27V 8A DC.

The aircraft has 11 external stores stations for weapon carriage, three under each wing and five under the fuselage. The centreline under-fuselage station and the two inbound wing stations are pumped to carry drop tanks, with a 800 litre tank for the centreline station and a 1,700 litre tanks for each of the wing stations. The two under-fuselage stations at front (under air intake) could be used to carry various targeting or navigation pods for operations at night and in complex weather conditions.



J-10 in static display with its air-to-air and air-to-surface weapons (Chinese Internet)
Air-to-Air Mission

For air-superiority and interception missions, the J-10 could carry a mix of medium-range air-to-air missiles (MRAAM), short-range air-to-air missiles (SRAAM) and drop tanks.

Typical air-Superiority and interception weapon configuration:

4X PL-11 / PL-12 MRAAM + 2X PL-8 SRAAM + 1X 800ltr drop tank
2X PL-11 / PL-12 MRAAM + 2X PL-8 SRAAM + 2X 1,600ltr drop tanks + 1X 800ltr drop tank
The J-10 was the first Chinese-made fighter to have surface attack capability in mind right from the design stage. The fighter is fully capable of all-weather offensive strikes, and could be fitted with a forward looking infrared and laser target designator pod. The AVIC I has displayed a model of the J-10 carrying what were believed to be targeting and navigation pods, which would provide the capability of the J-10 to deploy laser and satellite navigation guided weapons.

 

[john70]

This bird has also been acquired by the PAF - around 36 in no., and at present along with old F 16s constitute only reliable detterrent.

 

[Ray]

China military budget tops $100bn

China military budget tops $100bn


China's official defence spending will rise by 11.2% in 2012, pushing it above $100bn (£65bn) for the first time, the government has announced.


Beijing's defence budget has risen each year for two decades to become the world's second-biggest, behind the US.

It is developing an aircraft carrier, a stealth fighter jet, and missiles that can shoot down satellites.

The US promised to bolster its presence in the region last year, in a move seen as countering China's dominance.

Washington, which spends about $740bn on defence each year, already has bases housing thousands of American troops across the region.

The BBC's Martin Patience in Beijing says Chinese officials remain wary about growing American influence in the region, and believe Washington wants to encircle China.
'Peaceful development'

China's emerging military might has especially worried its near neighbours.

China has long-running territorial disputes with Vietnam, the Philippines and Japan, and has also positioned hundreds of missiles for a potential attack on Taiwan, which it views as part of its territory.

Announcing the new budget, Li Zhaoxing, an official with China's parliament, sought to calm concerns over the spending programme.

"China is committed to the path of peaceful development and follows a national defence policy that is defensive in nature," he said.

"China has 1.3 billion people, a large territory and long coastline, but our defence spending is relatively low compared with other major countries."

As a proportion of its GDP, China's official military budget is far lower than either the US or the UK.

But foreign experts have estimated that Beijing's actual military spending could be as much as double the official budget.

During 2011, China carried out its first test flight of a stealth fighter jet, and the first sea trial of its aircraft carrier.

Both pieces of equipment remain years away from active deployment.

Beijing is also building new submarines and ships, and developing a range of anti-ship ballistic missiles.

The armed forces, known as the People's Liberation Army, boasts more than two million personnel - the biggest military in the world.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-china-17249476

China on the march!

Arming to the teeth!

Hegemonic pursuits intact!

Peaceful Rise turns to Real Colours of Han China.

The Wolf has shed its sheep's clothing!

I have given an opinion!

 

[J20!]

China on the march!

Arming to the teeth!

Hegemonic pursuits intact!

Peaceful Rise turns to Real Colours of Han China.

The Wolf has shed its sheep's clothing!

I have given an opinion!

What amazes me is that one minute you start a thread on China being in the US's sights, the next you're saying China shouldn't modernize its millitary and calling it hegemonic for doing so? Please enlighten us all, who has the right to arm their millitaries and who doesnt?? I'm confused...