Photo of the day: WS9000 heavy commercial truck chassis

It seems that the China Second Artillery Corps is buying this heavy commercial truck  ("12x12" 90 tons, or "14x14" 105 tons) for more than just transporting lump of coal -- they are now using it for moving ice cream cones.

Fascinating -- flapping wings is illogical

just in case you're wondering, those are mockups

The other spotted single-seaters

6-14
6-176-13
6-18

New PLAAF regiments

Over the past year, we really haven't seen much movement on the J-10 front. J-10B's prototype 1035 has been testing for a long time, but we've basically seen the same batch of J-10s in yellow primer conducting test flights out of CAC. The batch 06 was first sighted in late 2010 and then all the way through 2011. Finally, we are seeing this batch of J-10s getting delivered. Most recently, we see some J-10S painted in PLAAF with serial number 20x6x ready to join service in the 15th division at Datong.

So, it would seem like this is the last J-10A/S regiment. Scramble has also updated this 43rd regiment of 15th division to be a J-10 regiment.

At the same time, we've also identified 2 new JH-7A regiments in service with PLAAF. First of all, the 28th division seems to be getting a second regiment. There is a new JH-7A with the serial number 31098 showing up recently. According to Scramble, this new regiment (the 84th regiment) started to be replaced with JH-7A from late 2011. At the same time, a new JH-7A regiment seems to have been established in the 110th Air Brigade (4xx8x, where xxx is 050-099). This Air Brigade was formerly of the 37th division. It seems like PLAAF is doing some experimentation with orbat recently and the 37th division became 3 air brigades. This would also include the J-11B/S serving under the 111th Air Brigade. From what I can tell, 37th division is the only one that has been transformed this way in PLAAF thus far.

A fistful of J-10s

In the past few days, Chinese forumers are busy speculating which operational unit is getting a J-10 upgrade from photos J-10s undergo final flight evel out of Chengdu. Also noted is that this latest batch of J-10 features two J-10s twin-seaters, a SOP for any new J-10 Regiment.





Also featured is J-20 flying around in circles, something no one seems to care anymore

But wait! there is more, if you call in the next ten minutes

We will throw in 17 Chinese-made MRAP for the Bangladesh Police in this blog.





Friday, December 16, 2011
Rebranded in China, Exported to Africa The Made-in-China MRAP in Africa.  The following photos might provide hints on the transfer of MRAP to China.





Previous blog entry

Friday, November 05, 2010
South Africa's MRAP to China http://china-defense.blogspot.com/2010/11/

But wait, there's more

In addition to HMMWV, Shaanxi Auto (here) has five new lines of military vehicles in waiting. As world’s largest car market, you think they are happy with old DongFongs?