In the meanwhile: Chinese peacekeepers to South Sudan show martial arts

Really, seriously?

Shouldn't you peacekeepers be out there.... say... looking for those kidnapped Chinese workers?

Chinese peacekeepers to South Sudan show martial arts

(Source: Chinanews) 2012-01-29

　　On the afternoon of January 25, 2012, local time, in the campsite of the first Chinese peacekeeping engineering contingent to the Republic of South Sudan, the guards of the first Chinese

China nationals missing after attack in Sudan

and the irony of it all...they were attacked by the Sudan People's Liberation Army
. Perhaps renaming the PLA to China Army is not so crazy after all.
China nationals missing after attack in Sudan
Associated Press – 10 hrs ago


BEIJING (AP) — China's Foreign Ministry says a number of Chinese nationals are missing after militants attacked their company in Sudan's volatile South Kordofan region.

Photo of the day: 24 hours fitness

Chinese Mistral?

Judging from this recent CCTV clip, the China Air Force is adopting the China Army's standard FN-6 MANPAD for its own point-defense needs.

Sharing is a common platform across different service arms  might not be a bad idea.








Not your father's SA-7

Photo of the day: modularized production of the 056 light corvette?

Flip me over.


 

Video of the day: who's a cute puppy?

Good boy, come here boy.  come here.

Weapon test platform learning how to swim on its own during the fourth trial.

Happy year of the dragon

A picture is worth a thousand words and if I have to pick a single picture to represent "China Defense" in 2011, this would be it.


For better or worst, Type 54A is keeping an open eye on China interest in the South China Sea. No, no gun blazing Wunderwaffe here.

Top defense secert leak of the day: Ballistic missile defense with high powered lasers

12 AC312 (Civilian Z-9) to Cambodia

Marking it the single largest PRC helicopter export to date. 

人民日报北京1月20日电（记者白天亮）亚洲最大吨位的直升机、可以飞越青藏高原8000米高度、使中国和欧美俄一样具备自主研制大型直升机的能力——今年1月5日，中国航空工业集团公司研制的AC313大型民用直升机获颁型号许可证。“这是对我们自主创新谋跨越最好的新年礼物！”中航工业上下激动万分。

自2008年底重组整合以来，中航工业坚持以自主创新提升企业核心竞争力，收获了一份亮丽的成绩单，实现了多个型号的首飞、鉴定和定型，极大缩短了与世界航空工业强国的差距，让世界震惊。一批具有世界先进水平的航空武器研制成功并出口，表明我国跻身世界少数几个能系列化、多谱系自主研制具有国际先进水平航空武器装备的国家之列。在新中国成立60周年的国庆阅兵中，空中梯队151

STUFT-ed, Chinese Style.

According to the Chinese edition report of the same (here), the China Army will STUFT (Ship Taken Up From Trade) a total of four large size Ro-Ro ships under the command of the Shenyang MR.  
Advanced passenger ro-ro ship commissioned in Shenyang MAC
http://eng.chinamil.com.cn/news-channels/photo-reports/2012-01/19/content_4772483.htm
(Source: China Military Online) 2012-01-19

The “

Dumpling # 3

So, when are they going to start building more tankers to support this growing fleet?

Making dumplings at the Changxing Shipyard.

As two more (appear to be) 052C Luyang II DDG in Changxing Shipyard spotted under construction, it is nice to have franco-russe around to help us keeping track of the progress.

they are launched at roughly six-month intervals:

Hull 3 28.11.10
Hull 4 20.07.11
Hull 5 16.10.11

The hull to the left in Hall 1 has almost certainly no superstructure, so that would be Hull 7, while the

Update from PLAN land

Every year, Chinese shipyards around the country stops working around Chinese New Year. Since Chinese New Year is less than a week away, we got some last minute photos from the Chinese shipyards.

First of all, we see the first two 056 class ships from HuDong shipyard. Now, there is also 056 under construction in HP shipyard, but these ones are more prominent and seem to be further along. There is still a debate on why PLAN even needs these ships, but that's a discussion for another day.



Secondly, we the work on 054As at HP shipyard continues to be extremely fast paced. The fifth ship (548) came back for work in HP shipyard.

The 7th one was launched a while ago.

The 8th one is amazingly far along considering the 6th 054A at HD shipyard just got launched a short while ago.


Finally, we got some new and interesting photos out of JN shipyard.
It looks like the 5th 052C just got launched very recently. The 3rd one has made a return to the shipyard after all the sea trials. I thought it was already commissioned. The next 3 photos show them from different angles. The 3rd one is definitely joining the navy soon. The 4th one has quite a bit to go before being ready to conduct sea trials. The 5th one looks to be slightly less finished than the 3rd and 4th one when they were launched. My feeling is that it was launched at this point because they needed the spaces in the dry dock halls for new ships.



We see below two new ships going into the dry docks and they appear to be the 6th and 7th 052C. I'm not sure if both of them will be 052C, because the rumour is that 7th ship would be in the 052D series.


So, there is a lot of activity going on in the Chinese shipyard. The work will probably stop a month, so we won't have much to see for a while.

I will be posting less often in the coming months

Hi everyone,

As you guys probably have noticed, I'm posting less frequently than I used to. The reason is that I got engaged a month ago and simply need to spend most of my free time preparing for my upcoming wedding rather than talking about Chinese military. That does not mean I will stop posting, but that I will be posting less frequently. Also with the upcoming Chinese New Years, there is just not as much news coming out as other parts of the year. Cheers everyone.

Feng

Being shot at -- the rite of passage for any power.

RPT-Chinese ship fired on in Mekong, patrols respond

http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/01/15/china-mekong-idUSL3E8CF0CS20120115
Sun Jan 15, 2012 6:37am EST

(Corrects spelling of Xishuangbanna in second paragraph)

Jan 15 (Reuters) - A Chinese cargo ship carrying logs on the Mekong river was fired on by unidentified attackers, spurring a response by Chinese and Laotian police, the

Short flick of the day: flight deck

Test platform returning home after its fourth sea trial.

Dangerous waters?

Wait the minute,  is that a Chinese edition of Dangerous Waters, a naval sim from sonalystscombatsims? (here)

Anyhow, DDG 169 "Wuhan" now has its own LAN "Study" Room,  a much needed R&R facilitate for those long Gulf of Aden missions.


 "054A, Friendly"




Fun time over, back to chasing pirates

January 11th.

I'm not going to engage or fuel the speculation on that happened on 1.11. However, I can offer some recent submarine photos instead.



094 Jin class SSBNSong Class running naked.  No wonder the China Navy subs are so noisy 093 Shang class SSNThe hunchback of the China Navy, 092 Xia Class   Old Golf class.   043 Qing Class

Music video of the day: I walk the line