It is offical -- "Global Liberation Army - Navy" font

Back in August, I blogged that some Chinese forumers are not happy with the new PLAN white pennant font.  Well, according to today's PLA Daily, the new white pennant is now the official “naval hull number font”.   



Saturday, August 18, 2012



Global Liberation Army - Navy



Recently some of the China Navy's latest vessels, including their newly
commissioned 052C Luyang II class DDG 152,

Photos of the day: Chinese Navy ships visit Sydney

Chinese Navy ships visit Sydney(Source: Xinhua)   2012-12-18　　Three Chinese navy ships returning home from counter-piracy operations in the Gulf of Aden have arrived in Sydney as part of a four day port visit, local media reported on Tuesday.　　The ships, Yi Yang, Chang Zhou and Qian Dao Hu, began arriving in Sydney at 8:30 a.m. (local time) on Tuesday, according to the

Photo of the day: Jianghu class FFG (551 and 552) becoming scrap metal

Two more Jianghu FFGs are done for.

FFG-552 “Yibin”,FFG-551 “Maoming" are at Binghai Shipyard being dismantled. Apparently Jan 2013 Naval and Merchant Ships has a gallery of them.

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Sunday, August 05, 2012




Bye bye FFG 511 and 512



The Jianghu class pair FFG 511 (Nantong) and FFG 512 (Wuxi) of the 8th
Escort Squadron, East Sea Fleet, decommissioned today at the Yangtze
River pier. Perhaps it is

Photos of the day: Lushan County, Henan Province

Home to one of the PLAAF Airplane Graveyards.

PLA Navy makes preparations for aircraft carrier formation

PLA Navy makes preparations for aircraft carrier formation(Source: Xinhua)   2012-12-13　　Within only a month, the development of China’s aircraft carrier experienced the official delivery of the “Liaoning Ship” to the Navy of the Chinese People’s Liberation Army (PLA) and the successful taking-off and landing training of the carrier-borne J-15 fighter nicknamed “Flying Shark” on the deck of the

Another 100-bird PLAAF drill.

While the PLAAF fighter jocks were off to their "red flag" in northwest
China,  their truck' drivin cohorts are playing FebEx in Chengdu.   They sure like to put on a big show when doing these drills



PLA Air Force holds comprehensive support drill

(Source: Xinhua)   2012-12-06

A comprehensive support experiment drill with multi-types of fighters on the double-runway under information