Type95/QBZ95-1 5.8x42mm Assault Rifle Hong Kong Debut Reloaded.

As the outgoing chairman of the CPC, Hu Jintao, parades down the Shek Kong Airfield of Hong Kong while being flanked by 3000 members of the PLA Hong Kong Garrison, China military watchers are excited, but not really surprised, to see the new and improved QBZ95-1 5.8x42mm assault rifle entering service. There is a well-known precedence to that – the first unveiled in public during the 1997

Your father's Russian Navy

Two days ago, a PC3 Orion maritime surveillance aircraft of the Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force, 2nd Fleet Air Wing, spotted a task force of 26 Russian naval vessels sailing through the Soya Strait.

Not sure why they are bringing Landing Ships this far out in the Pacific, but one thing is for current, they are NOT pulling a 1973 Egyptian military exercise.  Come to think about it -- it is

Activision to Bring New, Free Version of 'Call of Duty' to China

Makes you wonder who the bad guys will be in the Chinese edition of COD.  Separatists, Freedom fighters?  Good ole fashion "evil doers" from the Central Asian Republics is what my gut feeling tells me.

Consumers in the U.S. frequently line up to pay $60 apiece for each year's installment of Activision Blizzard Inc.'s biggest franchise, "Call of Duty." But when the war-simulation shooting game

The Curious Case of J-7

To the surprise of many Chinese plane spotters, who camp-out near Chengdu Aircraft Industry Group’s test airfield, hoping catch a glimpse of J-20 performing aerobatics or J-10B ferrying back and forth to its operation eval unit. What they found today is a batch of J-7G variants fresh off the production line, still sporting their yellow primer.

Gearing for export perhaps? to quote 49er “Wow,

Photo of the day: J-20 transforming?

Chinese Radars in Syria

Several days ago, the Free Syrian army sized control of an air defense base (here) equipped with what appears to be an export variant of the Chinese JY-11B radar that has been available in the international arms market for sometime now. However, upon closer inspection, our friend Sean O’Connor stated that it is either a Type 120 or an LSS-1, not JY-11B.  After reading his detailed analysis on

Communist propaganda of the day: period-drama genre, fail.

CCTV is the best!