people's republic of china

  1. Hood

    Chinese Type 343M Corvette

    In 1990 Racal Marine teamed up with the China Shipbuilding Trading Company to offer a modernised Type 037 Hainan-class hull as a corvette with Racal radars (obviously!), European guns and A/S torpedoes and Chinese C-801 SSMs. There were no takers.
  2. Flyaway

    UK to change law to stop RAF pilots training Chinese military, says minister

    I was pretty amazed when I first read this story that this was occurring. https://amp.theguardian.com/uk-news/2022/oct/18/raf-pilots-chinese-military-law-change-james-heappey
  3. Grey Havoc

    China ‘began stockpiling PPE months before notifying the world about Covid outbreak’ (The Daily Telegraph)

    https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2022/10/08/china-began-stockpiling-ppe-months-covid-outbreak/
  4. Grey Havoc

    China upgrades its Great Firewall

    Via Slashdot: https://www.theregister.com/2022/10/06/great_firewall_of_china_upgrades/
  5. GTX

    Chinese Airship

    Not a journalist I place a lot of credence with so take with pinch of salt: Satellite photos reveal colossal airship hangar in Chinese desert Keen to know if other sources on this.
  6. Grey Havoc

    PLAN Extra-Large Uncrewed Underwater Vehicle (XLUUV) program

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

    Would Be Logically Feasible & Worthy for Sino-Iranian Industrial Military Espionage Of NATO-EU & Aligned countries ?

    Let's say that Iran and China want to upgrade their navy, army, air force and so on. How much would be worthy and logical to steal military secrets,projects and more from NATO or NATO-friendly countries (example : Japan, Taiwan and others) to upgrade what they already have ? @Orionblamblam in...
  8. J

    Chinese VTOL aircraft

    Is anyone aware of any projects by China to create a VTOL aircraft to operate off of their helicopter carriers?
  9. J

    China Hypersonic Thread - Various

    https://www.spacedaily.com/reports/China_tests_new_engine_likely_to_power_hypersonic_aircraft_999.html
  10. H

    China: Projecting Power in the Atlantic Ocean

    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.
  11. klem

    The Chinese CH-T1 Ground-Effect UAV.

    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...
  12. C

    Chinese 122 series tank

    The story began in 1969 in the Sino-Soviet border conflict,Chinese captured a T-62,At that time, all their anti-tank weapons were unable to effectively destroy the T62. So Armor troops think they need a new second-generation tank,call “122”(The Type 69 "121 that was being developed at the time...
  13. uk 75

    Reinforcing Taiwan

    During the Cold War the US developed a series of exercises designed to bring Army (REFORGER) and Air Force (Crested Cap) units from the States to Europe. At what point should the US consider doing the same for Taiwan?
  14. tequilashooter

    Shenyang / Chengdu "6th Gen" Aircraft - News and Analysis

    No general chinese aviation thread for news like this so here we go?(unless mods or admin have a thread for where this news goes?) https://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/42937/tailless-fighter-like-airframe-spotted-at-chinese-fighter-jet-manufacturers-test-airfield
  15. Flyaway

    Chinese test of Fractional Orbital Bombardment System

    Incredibly hard to predict and very difficult to defend against, I think any current US anti-ballistic missile system would struggle with FOBS. A hypersonic glide vehicle and FOBS is probably the ultimate in nightmares for the western defence system...
  16. uk 75

    Evaluating Chinese Military Capabilities

    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...
  17. DWG

    Italian Police raid drone manufacturer over secret Chinese ownership

    https://www.defensenews.com/unmanned/2021/09/03/italian-police-raid-drone-maker-over-alleged-chinese-takeover/ TLDR: Alpi Aviation, manufacturer of the Strix, which is used by Italian SF, was bought for an inflated price in 2018, by a Hong Kong based front company for two Chinese state owned...
  18. Grey Havoc

    Famous Chinese actress 'unpersoned'

    https://www.news.com.au/technology/online/internet/china-erases-billionaire-actress-zhao-wei-from-history/news-story/94100f6569377078cfeee411f5fc3538
  19. C

    Chinese Type 69 variant

    https://mp.weixin.qq.com/s/Tpxm4wITvPpUoMRo0DOzAg With five small wheels
  20. Grey Havoc

    Shenyang J-11 PLAN/PLAAF

    For the 1960s/1970s fighter project, see here. https://www.janes.com/defence-news/news-detail/planaf-j-11bh-fighter-seen-using-potentially-new-ecm-pod
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