people's liberation army navy

https://www.navalnews.com/naval-news/2024/08/china-launches-its-most-sophisticated-submarine-to-date/

https://www.twz.com/news-features/odd-activity-at-chinese-submarine-shipyard-draws-interest

WTF? https://www.spacewar.com/reports/New_China_rules_allow_detention_of_foreigners_in_South_China_Sea_999.html

It seems that China has built a drone carrier ! https://www.navalnews.com/naval-news/2024/05/china-builds-worlds-first-dedicated-drone-carrier/

https://www.bilibili.com/video/BV1xC411J7m9 Model of concept

PGZ-09

https://www.navalnews.com/naval-news/2022/09/chinas-secret-extra-large-submarine-drone-program-revealed/

https://www.wsj.com/articles/china-seeks-first-military-base-on-africas-atlantic-coast-u-s-intelligence-finds-11638726327 Nothing to see here I'm sure.

The whole story started with a picture posted in 2017 on social media that shows a new military drone that China has built. The unnamed device, which is said to be a torpedo bomber, is capable of skimming the surface of the sea and conducting "deadly attacks" against warships, says a post on...

As someone who followed the various published Western assessments of Soviet Military Power avidly throughout the Cold War I am all too aware of the risks in such evaluation. As various Chinese capabilities are asserted regularly in a range of threads I think it would be timely to discuss the...

https://navalpost.com/china-type-052d-destroyer-suzhou-132/ From back in March, via the Wikipedia entry on the Type 052D family: https://www.janes.com/defence-news/news-detail/more-stretched-type-052d-destroyers-join-the-pla-navy...

From; Авиаколлекция 2010 № 8. Штурмовик Q-5 (A-5)

The growth of the Soviet Navy was symbolised by Admiral Gorshkov and a global maritime exercise (Okean 70). I was wondering if any clue was emerging to Chinese naval doctrine?

31 Hainan 105 Dalian 421 ()18

The project started in 1958 and ended in 1960. There was no prototype, only a fourteen-meter long test ship（Lead-acid batteries，speed 9 knot） Planned displacement 400~500 tons，four torpedo tube，speed 25knot with zinc-silver battery and deltaic diesel engine China built a new 032 submarine in...

Hi! Here is an unbuilt early design of Type 054 frigate. Using 3K95 Klinok short range surface to air missile.

http://www.tboverse.us/HPCAFORUM/phpBB3/viewtopic.php?f=6&t=24028&sid=b7e24d3d66bb62445c21929f8886c97e https://www.janes.com/article/83201/aad-2018-csoc-reveals-details-of-armed-usv-concept

"Will China's Next-Generation Supply Ship be Nuclear-Powered?" "On September 6, 2018, China’s comprehensive supply ship Hongzehu (Hull 881) was honorably retired, marking that the Chinese Navy has entered a new era of modernization. With its retirement, perhaps the country’s next-generation...

Several images have surfaced (of which this is one) from Shanghai CSSC shipyard. Images show what appears to be a large module of a possible aircraft carrier. Said shipyard was rumored to have started building China's next carrier, first Catobar one, since a few years ago.

"China has opened the bid to construct its first nuclear-powered icebreaker support ship, a move to prepare for the construction of a nuclear-powered aircraft carrier, military observers said. China National Nuclear Corporation on Thursday opened public bidding for the nuclear-powered...