people's liberation army navy

"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...

A PLAN destroyer, 173 Changsha , of Type 052D , broke down in the Indian Ocean on the way to the Sino-Russian naval exercise "Joint Sea 2017". She is one of China's latest destroyers Another destroyer, the 174 Hefei, of the same class has replaced it. Destroyer 173 Changsha , frigate 571...

3 more currently under construction

Finally a model of China's new LHD project, the Type 075. Said to displace 36,000 tonnes and operate 28 helicopters, under construction at Shanghai' Hudong-Zhonghua shipyards since late 2016.

IDEX 2017: Chinese Navy to acquire new trimaran hull frigate Richard D Fisher Jr, Abu Dhabi - IHS Jane's Defence Weekly 21 February 2017 Source: http://www.janes.com/article/67930/idex-2017-chinese-navy-to-acquire-new-trimaran-hull-frigate

http://nationalinterest.org/feature/can-chinas-dreadnought-tip-the-naval-balance-15539 Just over a decade ago, Western naval analysts (including this one) marveled over the PLAN’s new “Red Aegis” Type 052C destroyer, the first Chinese warship to wield both phased array radars and vertical...

"China submarines outnumber U.S. fleet: U.S. admiral" Source: http://news.yahoo.com/china-submarines-outnumber-u-fleet-u-admiral-231854613--finance.html

This thing looks like a modern re-interpretation of the WWII Mulberry Harbor. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mulberry_harbour In this case, the harbor can go wherever you go and doesn't tie you to a politically undesirable piece of land or force you to defend your supplies (from hungry mobs)...

Now this would be a game changer if they actually pulled it off in the next decade or so http://www.scmp.com/news/china/article/1580226/shanghai-san-francisco-100-minutes-chinese-supersonic-submarine

Found some weeks ago at the same testsite at Wuhan, where also the Liaoning and other ships EW's systems were tested ... Now a few more interesting high-resolution photos from that new Chinese DDG ... said to be a test-stand for the Type 055 DDG: Since ships are really...

Hey ... we don't have a specific tread on Chinese ASM's and since yesterday the first image of the long rumoured YJ-12 was posted .... Deino

Is China building an Ulyanovsk-class (Project 1153 OREL) aircraft carrier? Source: http://www.navyrecognition.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=691

Not 100% sure but with a MAD-boom, a weapons-bay and a large serach radar ... I would say that's the long rumoured Y-8GX-6 ASW. Deino

War is Boring and offiziere.ch are jointly reporting on a story, coming out via the EX-SKF blog, that the PLAN has suffered a major nuclear accident onboard a sub at the port of Dalian. EX-SKF got the report in turn from a blog (Japanese language) run by a former JASDF pilot. The accident...

Just "found" at XAC ... not sure if a Y-7-derivate or a completely new type, but anyway most likely something new from China again. Deino China naval AEW (most likely) spotted

http://www.defensenews.com/story.php?i=5489543&c=SEA&s=ASI So, seem within a few months the Varyag will be sailing under its own power. How long til the J-15 reaches production?

The article: http://news.theage.com.au/amd-building-catamarans-for-chinas-navy/20080201-1pgi.html The Product page from AMD: http://www.amd.com.au/designs/amd350pb.php The general arrangement drawing, which differs significantly with photographs of the Type 022...