people's republic of china

Hi, Available information on Iaotian-1 Aotian-1 is still confusing and remains to be pieced up properly. China has seemingly flown-tested, on september 20, 2013 an unpowered experimental vehicle code-named Iaotian-1 Aotian-1 (遨天1号 or 遨天一号in the Hulun Buir (呼伦贝尔市) region (northeastern inner...

Has the People's Republic of China cloned the Boeing AH-64 Apache? Photos from China Defense Blogspot. Source: http://chinadefense.blogspot.com/2012/02/us-apache-helicopter-appeared-in-china.html

Not really much better but anyway a clear sign for "there is at least something out there" ! Deino

Hi all, I just finished reading the book "The Black Bats" by Chris Pocock, which describes the Taiwanese spy flights over mainland China from 1949. The PLA jet fighters were too fast to intercept the Taiwanese P2V Neptunes by night, so they developed a nightfighter version of their "slow"...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kYURrZqgMfM&feature=player_detailpage http://www.dvice.com/archives/2008/09/-its-a-bird-its.php

Has anyone heard about this, or is it old news here? http://www.spacedaily.com/reports/China_buys_Russian_bombers_999.html

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

http://gcaptain.com/rumors-abound-china-places-order/ http://gcaptain.com/supertankers-china-freakin/ Assuming that Hanlon's Razor or similar is not in effect, it would seem likely that this is a cover for a naval project or a series of such projects. Two possibilities come to mind: That the...

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

The Shenyang 601 Institute has been working for some years now on what might be a competition for Chengdu's J-20. Here's a handful of pics( sorry, can't remember the site, I think it was a Pakistani defence forum) of a model strongly resembling the blurred windtunnel model from Huitong's site...

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

Hi all Some additions to widely known file (http://www.designation-systems.net/non-us/soviet.html) with codenames of aircraft and missiles. The information is taken from FAS.org and Wiki (sorry :) ) DOD NATO Missile AA-2D Advanced Atoll without changes AA-2-2 Advanced Atoll...

Massive rocket base to be built The world's largest design, production and testing base for rockets is being built in Tianjin, Liang Xiaohong, deputy head of the China Academy of Launch Vehicle Technology, said Thursday. The first phase of the rocket industrial base in Tianjin's Binhai New Area...

FTA: "A report published by China Aviation Journal, China has successfully launched its own space plane prototype" http://www.suasnews.com/2011/01/3610/russians-and-china-said-to-be-working-on-their-own-x37-type-craft/

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?

One from CAC: http://bit.ly/fO3ucj One from SAC: http://bit.ly/fiz2Vh

I am looking for the any photo (of the model) of the turboshaft powered Mi-4 - the variant, that was the first iteration, that led to the Mi-8. I also found that at least one chinese Mi-4/Z-5 was equipped with the Pratt & Whitney PT6T-6 Turbo Twin-Pac turboshaft engine and flew in 1979. Do we...

The Jaguar was a joint Chinese/US project between Cadillac Gage and the China National Machinery & Equipment Import & Export Corporation with the intent of modernizing the Type 59 tank and its variants in the mid-1980s. The political fallout of the Tiananmen Square Massacre forced the US and...