china threat

China threat

2012-02-01T20:26:00.000-08:00

J 20 the china threat Grow !!!!!!!!!!!!

2012-02-01T20:20:00.000-08:00

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IM

2012-02-01T20:16:00.000-08:00

It is going be a good day

Carrier L-15 Nanchang Q-6

2011-01-06T08:50:00.000-08:00

China Unveils Lead-in Fighter Trainer; Carrier Variant Next?
Defense News
11/22/2010
By WENDELL MINNICK

http://minnickarticles.blogspot.com/2010/11/china-unveils-lead-in-fighter-trainer.html

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PLAAF

2010-10-07T21:49:00.000-07:00

China's pro-missile navy sinks carriers

2010-07-25T20:48:00.000-07:00

Good rend on a the china carriers.

pla navy

2010-07-08T05:38:00.000-07:00

cool pic of the pla navy Exercises in East China Sea
First Look: PLA Navy Live Fire Exercises in East China Sea
DefenseTech.org ^ | July 7, 2010 | posted by Greg Grant

Posted on Thursday, July 08, 2010 4:31:00 AM by hamboy
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South China Sea AKA duh ?????????????????

2010-06-30T20:18:00.000-07:00

South China Sea: The coming war?
Five things you need to know about one of the world's most dangerous places.
TAIPEI, Taiwan — It's a 3.5 million-square kilometer stretch of ocean, speckled with some 200 coral atolls, some submerged or so tiny they hardly deserve to be called islands.

Welcome to the South China Sea, an obscure patch of global real estate that you're likely to hear more about in coming years.

Six Asian countries have long had competing — at times comical — claims to various islands here, sending token military forces to occupy barren rocks at great expense in the name of national pride.

What's new is China's muscle-flexing, which, if trends continue, could make the South China Sea one of Asia's most dangerous flash-points.

Fueling tensions in the sea are untapped oil and natural gas reserves, China's growing strategic interest in protecting sea lanes by which it gets some of its oil, and Beijing's desire to develop a "blue-water" navy capable of projecting power far beyond China's shores.

The U.S. is paying closer attention to the South China Sea, after China reportedly threatened U.S. energy firm ExxonMobil with retaliation if it continued oil exploration off Vietnam in waters China considers its own. And last year Chinese military vessels harassed U.S. surveillance ships in the sea.

Earlier this month, U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates made what's believed to be the highest-level public U.S. remarks to date on the issue.

"The South China Sea is an area of growing concern," he said at a security forum in Singapore. "This sea is not only vital to those directly bordering it, but to all nations with economic and security interests in Asia."

Gates repeated the U.S.' longstanding policy that it takes no position on conflicting sovereignty claims in the South China Sea.

But he said the U.S. believes "it is essential that stability, freedom of navigation, and free and unhindered economic development be maintained" and that "we object to any effort to intimidate U.S. corporations or those of any nation engaged in legitimate economic activity."

Here's a primer on the issue:

1) Why does America care?

The U.S. objects to any attempts to intimidate American energy companies operating in the South China Sea, which stretches from China all the way south to Indonesia. It also insists on the right of free navigation in international waters, defined, in accordance with customary international law, as any waters beyond 12 nautical miles from a nation's shoreline.

China says its sovereign territorial waters extend 200 miles from its shores, and makes a historical claim to almost all of the South China Sea, according to a backgrounder from the Heritage Foundation. China also says that any ship traversing the sea should first obtain Chinese permission. It has long complained about U.S. intelligence-gathering from spy-planes and spy-ships operating off its coastline.

2) Who else claims territory in the South China Sea?

Taiwan, Vietnam, the Philippines, Malaysia and Brunei also claim all or some of the South China Sea. Vietnam and China both claim the Paracels islands (known as the Xisha in Chinese), which China has controlled since a 1974 battle with Vietnam that left 18 dead. The other four countries as well as China and Vietnam also claim some or all of the Spratly Islands (known as the Nansha in Chinese) further south.

China's hold here is more tenuous; a skeleton force occupies nine speck-like islands, while Taiwan holds the largest island Itu Aba (or Taiping island, in Chinese), Vietnam holds 29 islands, the Philippines eight and Malaysia three, according to Michael Richardson, a visiting researcher at the Institute of Southeast Asian Studies, in a recent commentary. More than 70 Vietnamese sailors died in the latest military clash in the Spratlys, with China in 1988.

http://www.globalpost.com/dispatch/china/100625/south-china-sea-paracel-spratly-islands-military

Air Force official: China has world's 'largest deployed' conventional missile force

2010-05-29T08:24:00.000-07:00

East-Asia-Intel.com ^ | 5/26/2010 | East-Asia-Intel.com

Posted on Friday, May 28, 2010 5:44:38 PM by sonofstrangelove

Bruce Lemkin, deputy undersecretary of the Air Force for International Affairs, told a congressional commission last week that China's missile capabilities pose a growing threat to U.S. forces.

“Ballistic missiles are China's primary prompt long-range offensive weapon,” Lemkin told the U.S.-China Economic and Security Review Commission.

“They have one of the most active development programs in the world and the largest deployed conventional ballistic missile force of any nation.”

Lemkin said China has more than 1,000 short- and intermediate-range missiles with a variety of ranges, payloads and capabilities currently based in Southeastern China. Specialized warheads on the missiles include runway penetrators, anti-radar seekers and anti-ship payloads designed to threaten large naval vessels such as aircraft carriers.

“Taken together, ballistic missiles and cruise missiles provide China with the dual-pronged capability to strike almost any regional target to include airfields, ports, ships, military bases, logistics nodes, command-and-control facilities and industrial economic centers,” he said. “Chinese military writings also reflect a comprehensive understanding of information operations and their importance in modern conflicts.”

To fight modern wars, China is building its space warfare, anti-satellite weapons and electronic warfare capabilities.

“China is developing a large and diverse array of jammers and anti-satellite weapons to provide the capability to deny situational awareness to foreign military personnel, commanders and civilian leaders,” Lemkin said.

On China’s cyber capabilities, Lemkin said its cyberwarfare efforts are a growing concern.

“It threatens the integrity of military and civilian military information systems around the world in ways that are still not entirely understood,” he said.

Chinese air defense capabilities also are growing with “one of the world's most robust integrated air defense systems.”
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Photo) German media exposure: China's new 05 tank extraordinary night performance

2010-05-24T19:03:00.000-07:00

Photo) German media exposure: China's new 05 tank extraordinary night performance
World Military Network 2010-05-20 19:46:46

German media, "Rhine Outlook Journal" reports: China will stop production of 99 tanks, because the 05 new tanks coming soon. Type 05 tanks and three generations of semi-99A2 tanks, compared with a qualitative leap. 05 tanks can no longer simply viewed as a tank, but a super-marine attack platform, in addition to tanks, artillery, air defense missiles is also equipped with a precision and non-lethal laser weapons. Comprehensive view of operational performance of this tank at night is preferred, for night operations, but part of the data is unknown.

The article quoted sources from Beijing as saying that 05-style super-tank is the newest main battle tanks of the PLA, have excellent stealth bullet shape, its turret and body are used to strengthen composite armor, bullet-proof improved several times, is People's Liberation Army armored divisions and mechanized infantry division for the next major ground assault force, known as China's Super Marine ace, known as the world's first fourth-generation main battle tanks.

The full heavy battle tanks, 55 tons, length 10 meters when the muzzle forward, vehicle length of 7.6 meters, 3.5 meters wide, 2.37 meters high, the maximum highway speed of 90 km / h, 0 - 32 mph time of 10 seconds clock. People's Liberation Army-style Super 05 main battle tanks, made with a diameter of 152 mm high pressure smoothbore tank gun chamber, equipped with three types of ammunition types are new tail off shell stability, new shaped charge, artillery missiles. Stable tail off shell fired when initial velocity of 1950 m / s, direct distance of 3,200 meters, on the uniform thickness of 900 mm armor piercing more than a muzzle velocity of 1,500 meters when firing HEAT / sec. The gun is equipped with reliable self-loading machine gun rate of fire up to 12 rounds / min. Use of tungsten carbide stabilizing tail off shell, it can breakdown in the 2000 meters distance of 950 mm homogeneous armor, while the use of special alloy penetrators, the same distance of 1,000 mm armor-piercing capability, the gun can launch our newly developed 152-mm artillery self-guided missile, the missile a maximum range of 7.8 km, maximum depth of 900 mm armor, ancillary weapons: 13.8 mm automatic cannon a high shot, [Beitan 800 made]; 8.65 mm machine gun hand tied, [Bei Tan 3500-fat]; shell base 50 rounds; turret on each side 7 92MM smoke launchers.

05 advanced fire control system, with the 5th generation "Eye of Heaven" two-way stability fighter system can accurately high-speed moving target shooting, shooting 99 percent, with independent research and development of night vision, can be irradiated 0.1-8 km objectives, high-definition, 05 of the night fighting capability in the next few years, I am afraid that no one can surpass.

Liberation Army Daily of China reported a new tank night

The evening of September 1, the depths of the Xinjiang Tianshan Military training ground in an armored regiment was enveloped in a vast darkness. "All attention! Implementation of the program by 1." Came the head of the horse in the morning radio instruction. Immediately, the "012" was armored vehicles out of the valley, and began training for night ride synthesis.

At the moment, reporters inside the exposure Zheliang armored vehicles. Car in the huge roar off, the headphones came the soldiers asked each other the words: "Take arms, pay close attention to the prison." Suddenly an armored vehicle of a steep dive, the body suddenly sank, so that's a hit armor , the shock in a cold sweat.

Squad leader's sitting next to Wang Yonggang, said: "Adaptive training is a difficult ride content, and passengers can temper their physical skills and mental qualities, many soldiers carried out the initial training courses, will be dizzy and vomiting." Yuehua Jian, reporters glanced round, found the soldiers and they did.

As night falls, the mountains backward. Recruits suspected of containing a member of the window field of vision, to open the armored cover, immediately came to stop sound: "Caution! Head the 'enemy' aircraft reconnaissance." Sure enough, soon weakened headphone signal, issuing strident voice. "Oh, by 'enemy' strong electromagnetic interference." Co-pilot, communications, hand-century military quickly launched back-frequency electromagnetic interference equipment and networks, to frequency, frequency hopping and other means to quickly communicate with the contact. Next, the pilot light control strictly the use of infrared night vision equipment selection to avoid mobile line of camouflage ... ... well the fight prepared in accordance with regulations.

23:45, some reaching the battle area. Century military shouted: "There is the situation!" Voice hardly ever saw three red, two green signals to the sky made the squad leader Wang Yonggang a determination by the "enemy" chemical attack and interdiction fire. A soldier holding "enemy" Love told the reporter that simple signal indicator, they can encounter the "enemy", said the situation out of all the different signals, signal flares can only assume that showed more than 30 kinds of "enemy" situation, each all gains a complete digital soldiers.

Almost the same time, increased horsepower car, roared like the roar. Wang squad leader orders: "Attention all cars! Wearing gas masks, ready to make fire!" "Da da da ... ..." antiaircraft machine gunner King Division first opened by the fire instructions. For a time, a strong network of cross-fire, and worked in the night sky across the beautiful curve.

Tanks more trenches, climbing hills, accelerating the adoption of a fire block area. A violent jolt, journalists feel internal organs had been kept on turning up, wearing a gas mask breathtaking. Are feeling sad occasion, the radio came the "occupation of the impact of car No. 012 launch position to them." Just at that time soon. "012" car parking instant, containing members of the infantry two-pronged, soon enlivened the field and in the desert. Little effort, and the car on the pretext of the mountain, darkness and camouflage equipment of "hiding" up.

Morning, 4 red flares into the sky, the impact of launch. 1 armored vehicles rushed in the night "enemy" positions. Follow the aircraft conversion, the vehicle commander commands antiaircraft machine gunner while contain "enemy" fire, while using night-vision vehicle, reconnaissance equipment, communication equipment, the implementation of the infantry under the command vehicle; ground commanders are also informed by the process of fighting the battlefield situation , sometimes grouping, before the turn of the cover, sometimes interspersed roundabout, at the point attack, continuous strong blow to break the round after round of defense.
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generation XXJ fighter

2010-05-24T18:50:00.000-07:00

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USA rethinks view of China's next generation XXJ fighter

The USA is revising its assessment of the Chinese advanced fighter, which is known by its US Office of Naval Intelligence (ONI) designation of "XXJ". At the same time, Shenyang is developing a multirole version of the J-8II air defence fighter.

Washington sources say the original information provided by the ONI in 1997, showing a design resembling the Boeing F-15 Eagle, has been superseded. The agency predicted the XXJ would be multirole, have stealth features and was expected to enter Chinese air force and navy service by around 2015.

This estimate has been revised to 2010. Both Chinese fighter companies - Chengdu and Shenyang - are thought to be working on advanced combat aircraft concepts.

Indications are that the XXJ will have a canard configuration and be equipped with twin thrust-vectoring engines. The design seems influenced by Sukhoi's advanced concepts such as the Su-37 and forward-swept wing S-37 Berkut, suggesting that Shenyang, which has a link with the Russian manufacturer dating from the early 1990s, is the developer. Combining a foreplane, a tailplane and thrust vectoring enhances manoeuvrability.

Engines are likely to be a version of the Wopen WP15 in the 26,000lb-thrust (115kN) class. Pictures of a large engine equipped with thrust-vectoring nozzles was displayed at last year's Zuhai aerospace show.

The fighter is expected to have a 20,000kg (44,000lb) empty weight and incorporate a fly-by-wire control system similar to that developed by Shenyang and tested in the J-8IIACT programme.

Meanwhile, Shenyang is building a new multirole version of the twin-engined J-8II fighter, reflecting China's doctrinal shift towards offensive capabilities. Creating a new version of a dated design underlines the country's urgency in building up its strike forces.

Taiwanese and US sources say the J-8IIC is a J-8IID development, incorporating the latter's in-flight refuelling system and true, instead of secondary, air-to-ground role.

The aircraft is equipped either with a new Chinese-developed dual mode radar or the Russian Phazotron Zhuk-8II (acquired for the F-811M export fighter). Both have a 70km (38nm) range.

Other likely enhancements include a new electronic warfare system and an upgraded cockpit with multifunction displays, head-up display and the new data-link.

The fighter will be powered by a Wopen WP14 engine developing up to 16,215lb thrust, an improvement on the J-8IID's 14,550lb-thrust WP13A.

H-8 /H-9

2010-05-08T18:24:00.001-07:00

H-8

H-9

China's 'Project 921'- Men in Space

2010-05-02T21:27:00.001-07:00

China's 'Project 921'- Men in Space

Phillip Clark

This is the original, unedited text which was published in 'LaunchSpace', Oct/Nov 1998 Issue.

The Chinese space program in recent years has been punctuated by well-publicized launch failures interrupting strings of unpublicized launch successes, giving rise to the myth that the Chinese space program is one with low reliability and not in the same class as the programs run by other space powers.

Following high-profile launch vehicle failures, the Chinese have had a string of successes since late 1996. In some U.S. political quarters, these successes owe nothing to the Chinese ability to overcome problems, but are simply due to American help in improving the launch vehicles. Such a claim is an insult to the Chinese engineers and designers. Substantial evidence exists to give substance to China's announcements it plans to begin manned space launches in the second half of 1999.

Starting in the 1970s

The Chinese recovered their first Fanhui Shi Weixing (FSW) satellite from orbit Nov. 29, 1975, succeeding at their first recovery attempt. In this they equaled the Russians, who succeeded on their first recovery attempt, Korabl Sputnik 2. It was not until Discoverer 13 that the United States finally succeeded in recovering a satellite from orbit.

The Chinese recovery led to speculation about a manned program, but in reality, the FSWs were akin to scaled-up Discoverer/Corona satellites with reconnaissance as the primary mission. In all, nine FSW-0 satellites were launched and recovered, five FSW-1s were launched with only the last one failing to return to Earth, and three FSW-2 satellites have been launched and recovered.

Clearly, the Chinese have mastered one important procedure for a manned flight. But they weren't planning to fly people into space in the late 1970s. Rather, although interested in a manned space program, they were only doing the basic ground-based research that such a program would require.

China's "Project 921" manned space program

In November 1988, the Chinese propaganda publication China Pictorial included a series of photographs that apparently showed more men undergoing medical tests while dressed in spacesuits rather than simple pressure suits. It looked as if the Chinese manned program was "on" again.

Two years before, the Chinese had revealed plans for a whole family of new launchers derived from the successfully flown CZ-2C, which could place 2.5 tons into a low-Earth orbit, and the CZ-3, capable of lifting 1.5 tons into a geosynchronous transfer orbit.

When reviewing these vehicles for the July/August 1987 issue of the British Space magazine, this writer identified the CZ-2/4L (today's CZ-2E) as being particularly applicable for manned launches: with an 8.8 ton LEO capability, it could place a Soyuz-class space station ferry into orbit.

Over the last few years, details have started to appear concerning Chinese plans to put people into orbit. Known by its code name, "Project 921," the plan includes flying two astronauts aboard a spacecraft bearing many similarities to the Russian Soyuz which, in turn, was similar to some early 1960s Apollo concepts; the launcher will be a man-rated version of the CZ-2E. The Chinese have bought examples of Russian space technology (e.g., a Soyuz-TM life-support system, an androgynous docking unit and a pressure suit as used by cosmonauts), but they are not copying these - they are learning from them and then applying what they learn to their program.

Having a mass of about 8.4 tons, the Chinese spacecraft has two major external differences compared with Soyuz - it has two pairs of solar panels for the generation of onboard power and the forward module is distinctly cylindrical compared to the spheroid on Soyuz. Additionally, it is thought that up to four people could fly inside the Chinese spacecraft.

From the outset, the Project 921 spacecraft will be equipped with an androgynous docking system and an internal transfer tunnel, which the original Soyuz did not carry. This means that early in their program, two Project 921 spacecraft can be docked nose-to-nose and the two crews can move from one craft to another. When the Russians first did this with Soyuz 4/Soyuz 5 in January 1969, they had no transfer tunnel and two cosmonauts had to perform a spacewalk for their transfer. Two docked Chinese craft could act as a small orbital station for a few weeks, as a precursor to a larger, dedicated space station.

One of the launchers proposed in the mid-1980s was a CZ-3/8L, which essentially has become the three-stage CZ-3B but with eight strap-on boosters instead of four. A logical derivative of this concept would have been a CZ-2/8L, without the third stage. The payload capability would be 16 to 17 tons to LEO. This is heavy enough to launch a space station similar in concept to the original Russian Salyuts of the 1970s and early 1980s.

Satellite images have shown a new launch complex has been built at the Jiuquan launch site, one capable of launching larger vehicles than those that have flown from that site to date. Now confirmed by the Chinese, this launch pad is compatible with a planned all-new family of medium/heavy-lift launch vehicles - believed to be using LOX/kerosene in their lower stages rather than the Chinese standard N2O4/UDMH - as well as the existing CZ-2E vehicle. It is this pad that will be used for launches under Project 921.

What can we expect in the near future? Before the end of 1998, the Chinese should have test-flown both the man-rated CZ-2F vehicle and the Project 921 spacecraft without a crew. A second successful test in the first half of 1999 would clear the way for a two-man launch before the end of that year, conveniently tying it in with the 50th anniversary of the communist takeover of China. A nose-to-nose docking of two Project 921 craft should come two years later.

If all goes according to plan, during late 1999 or early 2000 China will become the third nation to launch its own people into orbit.

Phillip Clark has been studying the former-Soviet space program since the late 1960s and the Chinese program since the first launch in 1970. He publishes the monthly Worldwide Satellite Launches.

http://www.geocities.com/CapeCanaveral/Launchpad/1921/story-4.htm

A FUTURE NEW LAUNCH VEHICLE FAMILY ?

It has been widely reported that the Chinese are building new launch facilities at the Jiuquan launch site and that these will be used in support of a new family of launch vehicles for a manned programme. Since the 1980s the Chinese have admitted that they are working on a Saturn-1 class launch vehicle without giving any real details about the project. On October 31, 1992 the Zhongguo Tongxun She news agency in Hong Kong reported that:-

Relevant sources in China's Ministry of Aeronautics and Astronautics Industry have disclose that China's first manned space shuttle will be launched from Jiuquan, Gansu.

According to the information, a space centre designed by Chinese engineers alone, is being built 200 km from Jiuquan City and the construction of a 200 km special railway to the centre has begun. The first phase of the project is expected to be completed towards the end of the 1990s.

At present all the technical officials concerned have taken up their positions. The person in charge here said: "The launch and retrieval of the first space shuttle will take place in the new space centre and the bases in its vicinity. It will take about ten years to accomplish this grand project."

It is now reported that the rail transportation system has been completed and that the launch pad assemblies indicate a launch vehicle far larger than the currently-existing family of Chang Zheng vehicles.

A paper was presented at the 1992 IAF Congress entitled "A Modular Space transportation System" (IAF-92-0857), which described a possible family of future launch vehicles derived from a basic two-stage vehicle which could be clustered in different ways and which could be supplemented additional upper stages. It is unclear whether this paper represents a purely theoretical exercise or whether it is indicative of Chinese planning for future launch vehicles.

The idea behind the paper is the development of a baseline two-stage launch vehicle with the characteristics listed in Table 1.

The Chinese paper notes that the first stage fuel would be a "hydrocarbon (CH)" and this is taken to refer to kerosene - especially since the Chinese would later express an interest in purchasing Russian liquid oxygen/kerosene engines (to be discussed later).

The use of liquid oxygen and kerosene on the first stage of this vehicle would mark a departure for the Chinese, since they have previously used storable UDMH and a nitrogen-derived oxidiser (usually nitrogen tetroxide). The choice of storable propellants is a result of the current launch vehicles being based upon missiles for which storable propellants is virtually essential.

The study called for a baseline vehicle with a length of less than 60 metres and a length/diameter ratio below 13. The study took the diameters of the two stages to be a common 4.5 metres which corresponded to a maximum length of 58.5 metres: in fact, a length of 55 metres was decided upon, including a payload fairing of 12 metres.

Data for the overall launch vehicle are:-

launch mass 377 tonnes
payload capability 11 tonnes
length 55 metres
diameter 4.5 metres
first stage thrust 4.8 MN [490 tonnes]

One table in the paper notes a launch mass of 337 tonnes, but elsewhere the mass is quoted as 377 tonnes, a figure which is confirmed from simple arithmetic. The numbers imply that the payload shroud would have a mass of three tonnes. The payload mass is quoted in the paper for a 60o, 300-500 km orbit: from calculations by this writer these figures would mean a launch from Jiuquan with a good margin of residual propellant.

On top of the second stage an instrument unit 1.6 metres high would be carried, acting as a data-collection and processing centre for the vehicle.

The first stage would carry four engines which can gimble for control. The second stage a single main engine and a set of four verniers.

Taking this base design, it is proposed that a three-stage launch vehicle could be developed which could place 6 tonnes into geosynchronous transfer orbit: although not stated, one assumes that the third stage would use liquid oxygen and liquid hydrogen - already in use with the existing CZ-3 and CZ-3A launch vehicles.

A series of different launch vehicles derived from the baseline launch vehicle's stages and the not-described third stage is proposed, leading to a maximum payload capability of 70 tonnes to the standard 60o, 300-500 km reference orbit. Details are given in Table 2. For the larger payloads a fairing with a diameter of 5.4 metres and a length of 18 metres would be used.

Thinking in terms of a manned programme, one can imagine that the baseline vehicle could be used to launch the manned spacecraft, while a "Model 1" derivative could be used to launch a space station module.

While the concepts of the 1992 paper are interesting and would represent an extension of the existing Chinese philosophy of taking the basic CZ-2C launch vehicle and modifying it to provide the full variety which we see in the CZ-2, CZ-3 and CZ-4 families, we have no idea whether the 1992 proposals will remain a paper study or will become (or even is !) a funded programme.

http://www.geocities.com/CapeCanaveral/Launchpad/1921/story-3.htm

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China says its spaceplane has realized successful trial flight.

2010-05-02T09:23:00.001-07:00

Apr.29 (China Military News reporting by Johanthan Weng) — Recently, the “China Aviation News” introduces space technology expert Wang Chun’s deeds. The paper said, China has successfully flight aerospace fighter prototype.

Born in 1970, Wang Chun studied at the Nanjing Aeronautical Institute for years since 1992, then graduated University of Defense Technology in 2006 to obtain master’s degree in aerospace engineering. After that, Wang Chun served in the Chengdu Aircraft Design Institute as a member of wing structure design team. Now he has been a senior engineer and general director of Near Space Vehicle Research Laboratory, Aerospace Technology and UAV Design Department, CADI(Chengdu Aircraft Design Institute).

The newspaper reported that Wang Chun’s over 10-year work mainly engaged in aircraft structural design, and involved the development of J-10 and FC-1 fighters. He also made great contributions for one key project of Chinese “National 863 Plan”.

China’s “Shen long” Trans-Atmospheric Vehicle

In a major project of “Tenth-five-year” plan, Wang Chun fully participated the space vehicle prototype’s design, overall assembly and flight test, and fully responsible for the development of a subsystem project management, presided over the completion of the emergency isolation system design, installation, ground test and ground flight test.

During the “Eleventh Five-Year” plan, he led the work of the average age of less than 30 years of a young team, undertook a comprehensive test prototype design work, which completed in just four years He has become the main contributor for the successful trial flight of aerospace fighter prototype.

The prototype space vehicle designed by Wang Chun, is distinguished with new concept, creative layout and new features for flexible deployment in space and air. His achievements make breakthroughs in space vehicle Integrated Design, multi-band space-borne shaping antenna working under extreme condition and useful payload structure design.

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2010-05-01T20:49:00.000-07:00

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Russian-made helicopters in Qingdao, China and Russia build a maintenance and assembly companies
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Russian Helicopter Technology (Qingdao) Co., Ltd. is located in Qingdao City, West Coast Export Processing Zone, the Russian helicopters should Tong Ji Tuan Gong Si and Chinese joint venture, Zong Touzi 5 million yuan, registered Zijin 200 million yuan, an area of 181 acres, mainly engaged in Russian-made helicopter maintenance and spare parts sales
Invested 500 million yuan of the Russian Helicopter Technology (Qingdao) Co., Ltd. foundation-stone laying ceremony on the 29th in the national economic and technological development zone of Qingdao City, was held.
Invested 500 million yuan of the Russian Helicopter Technology (Qingdao) Co., Ltd. foundation-stone laying ceremony on the 29th in the national economic and technological development zone of Qingdao City, was held.
China and Russia shared the leadership of founder
China and Russia shared the leadership of founder

Xinhua Qingdao on April 29 (Xinhua Xu Bing Zhang Xudong) invested 500 million yuan of Russian Helicopter Technology (Qingdao) Co., Ltd. foundation-stone laying ceremony on the 29th in the national economic and technological development zone of Qingdao City, was held. Military defense of Chinese military intelligence

Russian Helicopter Technology (Qingdao) Co., Ltd. is located in the west coast of Qingdao Export Processing Zone, by the Russian helicopter company and the Chinese joint venture group should pass a total investment of 500 million yuan, registered capital of 200 million yuan, an area of 181 acres, is mainly engaged in Russian-made helicopter maintenance and spare parts sales, the Russian-made helicopter pilots and maintenance personnel training, and assembling parts of Karimov family and Miri series of small and medium helicopters. Military defense of Chinese military intelligence

According to reports, the project was February 11, 2010 to complete the registration, which is the west coast of Export Processing Zone of Qingdao Haili Helicopter program after the United States to settle down after the second helicopter manufacturing project, a Russian helicopter company in India, South Korea and Spain established after the sixth state helicopter maintenance and service center. Military defense of Chinese military intelligence

It is understood that the aviation industry is the state-level economic and technological development zone of Qingdao four emerging industries, Qingdao Development Zone in Shandong Province has been classified as a light helicopter export base. Most recent projects and extensive radiation, high technology, high added value, is a capital and technology intensive industries. Military defense of Chinese military intelligence
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PLA's first carrier 'ready by 2012'

2010-04-10T12:49:00.000-07:00

PLA's first carrier 'ready by 2012'
Blue-water navy plans advancing, US says
Greg Torode Chief Asia correspondent
Apr 01, 2010

China could have its first aircraft carrier operational in two years, according to the most senior US military official in the Asia-Pacific region.
Admiral Robert Willard, commander of the US Pacific Command in Hawaii, told a recent US congressional hearing that the Soviet-era carrier Varyag, bought from a Ukrainian shipyard in 1998, would be "operational around 2012 and likely be used to develop basic carrier skills" after a 10-year refit. His statement is the most specific yet from the Pentagon on Beijing's aircraft carrier ambitions.

Several military analysts and diplomatic military attaches said the Varyag had recently left dry dock at a Dalian shipyard revealing extensive work to its hull and superstructure. It had also been demagnetised in order to avoid mines. They said they believed the Varyag would almost certainly be kept close to the mainland coast to train pilots and crew until China's first domestically built carriers were completed, possibly as soon as 2015.

It is not yet known whether Varyag's engines have been fully fitted. A full-scale concrete replica of its flight deck and superstructure is near completion next to a technical college in Wuhan, Hubei province.

Willard told the armed services committee of the House of Representatives late last week there was a need for deeper engagement with Beijing amid international doubt that its military modernisation was "purely defensive" as stated. "Frank and candid" discussions were needed, he said, but they required "a stable and reliable US-China military-to-military relationship - a relationship that does not yet exist with the PLA".

"Over the past few years, China has begun a new phase of military development by beginning to articulate roles and missions for the PLA that go beyond China's immediate territorial concerns, but has left unclear to the international community the purposes and objectives of the PLA's evolving doctrine and capabilities," Willard said.

An operational Varyag is widely seen as a crucial step on the path to China fulfilling its aim of achieving full blue-water naval capability.

Even if the Varyag is operational in two years, it remains unclear whether China will be able to obtain planes capable of flying from its take-off ramp. While pilots have been in training with Ukrainian advisers, Beijing has yet to complete a deal with Moscow to purchase carrier-capable Su-33 fighters.

Talks have dragged on for four years, with Moscow - wary of having its military technology reverse-engineered - wanting to sell at least 50 planes and China wanting a far smaller number.

China has already obtained an Su-33 prototype from Ukraine for research purposes.

The PLA will also need to perfect theconfiguration of the Varyag's radars, wiring and communications - all highly complicated on a cramped carrier. It will also have to learn to use the ship in tandem with the support ships and submarines vital to its protection.

Andrew Erickson, a China scholar at the US Naval War College, said getting the Varyag operational was merely the start. "China's refitting of Varyag to make it operational around 2012 seems to be part one of a two-part approach - outfit a foreign-purchased platform to enable basic training, while preparing a more capable [domestically made] platform for higher-level military operations," he said.

"Some time after 2015, personnel that initially trained on the Varyag could be transferred to China's first indigenous operational carrier." Whether the home-grown design would be based on the Varyag remained to be seen. Analysts have noted that the ramps used on the Soviet-era carriers limit the type and weight of aircraft that can be deployed compared to flat-deck carriers that use steam catapults, such as American and French carriers.

Xu Guangyu, a Beijing-based retired PLA general, said the Chinese side had yet to reveal a detailed schedule for carrier development. "I think Admiral Willard's report comes the closest to Beijing's answer because the US is the most experienced aircraft carrier expert."

Gary Li, a PLA specialist at the London-based International Institute of Strategic Studies, said it was clear that PLA officials were well aware of the limitations of the Varyag and were still looking at other designs.

"It does seem they've got little option at the moment but to push ahead with the Varyag for training ... it is clear they know just how long a road they have embarked on, so they've got to make a start on integrating all the necessary components," he said.

"Although carrier technology is very old, it is still extremely complex to acquire from scratch. Even the welding techniques to withstand such stresses are closely held secrets."

The 67,500-tonne Varyag was partially completed in a Ukrainian shipyard when the Soviet Union collapsed. Stripped of technology, the hull and superstructure were sold to Beijing for US$20 million in 1998. China later paid extra for the blueprints.

The then-rusting hulk of the ship was towed to China via Macau, prompting early speculation that it might be used for a casino.

Additional reporting by Minnie Chan

640 Project

2010-01-16T17:18:00.000-08:00

China 640 Project decryption: the little-known national missile defense project (Figure)
[Military commander commonplace]
01-12 11:11

China's missile defense program with the anti-satellite warfare program in time can be roughly divided into three phases the first phase of the sixties the "640 Project", including the national missile defense system and theater missile defense systems and anti-satellite combat systems. The second stage is the eighties of the "863 Program", the main and basic technical feasibility demonstration and technical reserves. Since the late nineties the third phase has the face of the U.S. nuclear blackmail and the threat of satellite weapons, armaments, mainly carried out against the U.S. missile defense program and feasibility study and program planning.

(A), Origin

The late fifties of last century, the whole atmosphere of the Cold War, the Earth has been completely enveloped; between the two camps, it has long been eyeing. Which led to the Cold War, the so-called "balance of terror" phenomenon of the most important factor, is none other than nuclear deterrence. More than 10 years ago, the world has experimented with nuclear weapons, "style"; one of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, one has become a milestone in the history of mankind atomic energy development. Affected by this stimulus, the ability of countries in the development of nuclear weapons; in NATO and the Warsaw Pact confrontation, and "capable of mutual assured destruction" background, but never Zhebing sword scabbard. By the late fifties, the Chinese are in a home and less abroad times. Internal problems first, not to mention, only saying that the international community, but also a lot of problems: a few years ago, the Korean War, has clearly defined the enemy of the United States led the West; and continued progress with the Sino-Soviet dispute, China and the socialist tradition camp, they are facing a complete break situation.

A blink of an eye to the sixties, "Great Leap Forward" after China, are rapidly recovered. However, the international situation at that time, but it did not turn for the better - if not worse words: this time, the Sino-Soviet Union has a complete breakdown of the Sino-Soviet border is already a massive gathering. Soviet and Chinese military exercises deduction, have proved a problem: the Soviet Union's mechanized army and tanks, army, just a few hours, you can by way of Zhangjiakou, pressed Beijing! For this reason, the possibility of Soviet offensive line, the Chinese armed forces are in layers of fortification. However, if the Soviet conventional attack is not, but use a new type of nuclear attack, how can I do?

If you choose the Soviet Union nuclear attack, I am afraid may not be just like the U.S. bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki when it was using only way to carry out bomb bomber - the world, has been the emergence of new delivery platform, which is equipped with long-range nuclear warheads ballistic missiles, medium-range ballistic missiles. The so-called "intercontinental ballistic missiles," the long-range ballistic missiles, full flight time, but 30-40 minutes. Medium-range ballistic missiles launched from Mongolia, hit Chinese territory, the whole time and even less than ten minutes. Moreover, the multiple independently targetable, lured by deception, mobility, etc. warheads way, there have been - in this case, there are no nuclear-armed China, can withstand a nuclear attack from the West or the North?

In fact, this is not a question of suspense; can or can not, must be carried out to resist - just because defense up "very difficult", do not go to defense Mody? Categorically do not have this reason!

(B), the opening

December 1963, heard a report on strategic weapons, after Chairman Mao Zedong instructed: atomic bombs, missiles, and in any case not more than anyone else Gaode. At the same time, we are also a defense strategy. Therefore, in addition to engaging in offensive weapons, but also engage in more defensive weapons. Two months later, February 6, 1964, this issue has once again been proposed by Mao Zedong; that day, he met with Qian, vice president of the five branches of the Ministry of Defense and some other scientist, who specifically addressed the anti-missile research question: "There is spear there is a shield, a small number of people engaged in food to eat, specifically study this issue, 5-year No, 10, 10 not, 15 years, the total wants to come out!. " Chairman Mao was referring to is China's "Anti-Ballistic Missile Project", code-named 640.

Ingenious's Mao Zedong of China's NMD (National Missile Defense), said that due to development of nuclear submarines and is familiar with the "ten thousand years." Shows that China's leaders in this matter on a great determination.

In early 1964 this instruction has since become known as the 640 directions - the corresponding anti-ballistic missile-related research planning, the project is code-named Project 640.

In order to implement the instructions 640, a month after the March 23 National Defense Science and Technology Commission held a ballistic missile defense science. To participate in the seminar, a total of 30 experts and leaders from the four planes, Ministry of Defense the five branches of the Ministry of Defense 10 Center, Chinese Academy of Sciences, People's Liberation Army artillery and other units. This discussion will be made clear to the three possible ways of anti-missile, and have done a preliminary division of labor: the five branches of the Ministry of Defense is responsible for the anti-missile missiles, artillery Institute of Science is responsible for super-gun anti-missile, Shanghai Institute of Optics and Fine Mechanics is responsible for the anti-missile laser. One of the super-gun anti-missile, in fact, a super anti-missile artillery abbreviation - but this project ultimately Whispering another home; on this issue, we later take your time.

August 14, 1964, Premier Zhou Enlai approved by Ministry of Machine 2 Hospitals 7 as "anti-missile, anti-satellite research institute in general." 2 hospital was started in early 1964 preparatory work for the organization, and in 1970 demonstrated anti-satellite program.

One year later, May 10, 1965, the Central Office of the IPCC issued a "on the enemy's missile defense research issues," which called the Ministry of the four planes, five machine department, six machine department, the Ministry of seven aircraft, Chinese Academy of Sciences, artillery , XX Base (Note: This article is abbreviated), we must make the enemy's missile defense research, part of the unit's annual and long-term planning. Two months later, July 8, National Defense Science and Technology Commission to submit to the central post "on the anti-missile defense system research and development planning report" plans developed between 1973-1975 interception system, and to intercept test. August 27, the Central Committee of the 13th special meeting approved the report.

February 23, 1966, National Defense Science and Technology 640 project briefing meeting. In January 1967, China's military and scientific research within the system held a "640 Project" conference, identified the five sub-systems, code-named, the research unit of the division of labor, the system's development planning, etc., and decided to accelerate the missile range and anti-missile nuclear warheads Development. To propose a plan at the meeting in 73 years to around 75 years. The specific content has not yet declassified. There has been speculation the five engineering systems are: the lower back on the 1st of hypersonic interceptor missile system [ "rubber overshoes" technical concepts]; back on the 2nd low-level interceptor missile system [for combat]; back on the 3rd level interceptor missile system [two-tier interceptor system the concept of]; anti-wei on the 1st system [anti-satellite laser system]; strategic early warning system [such as the detection range of 2000-3000 km of 7010 phased array radar system, 110 single-pulse tracking radar systems, satellite tracking and control network, 180 radar, accurate measurement of single-pulse and "Yuan Wang" ship tracking and other guidance systems, computers and command center 108 B (C3I), ground facilities, etc.]), propose a plan developed in the years between 1973-1975 interception system, and to intercept tests, the meeting decided to speed up the Anti-Ballistic Missile Range and the development of anti-missile nuclear warheads.

(C), Pioneer supergun

640 receiving instructions Chairman Mao Qian, when he was vice president of the five branches of the Ministry of Defense. With 640 projects began to take shape, the entire Defense Department has evolved into the five branches of the Ministry of seven aircraft (aerospace industry); a matter of course, it became the second branch of the Seventh Ministry of Machine 2 Hospitals. The protagonist of this article 640-2 project, which is super-cannon project is being landed on the shoulders of the two homes; specifically, fell on two homes Er Yi ○ Institute for the shoulders.

This Eryi ○ Institution, is the original one hundred tenth ○ an Institute of the PLA General Logistics Department; and National Defense Science and Technology The reason it has been classified into two homes by name, it works in order to 640-2. With the division of tasks, of course, that's fine; However, what is the how to use super-guns to counter the missile, but it became a real technical problems. Incoming nuclear warheads too fast, highly are too high, which determines the cannon fired to intercept warheads, and the flight speed must be fast enough, but must also be high enough to shoot high.

To address this issue, 210 conducted the first phase of exploration, the final proposed the "sub-caliber artillery shells intercept" option. Upon receipt of the second year of instruction 640, 210 on the 85-mm smoothbore gun tests were carried out. Corresponding measures taken after weighing 4 kg of the projectile, its velocity has reached 1,200 m / sec; while this rate, higher than 50% before conversion. However, for the Anti-Ballistic Missile, or not fast enough.

In the smoothbore gun firing sub-caliber shells tests, also studied the rocket afterburner shells, solid punch afterburner bomb tests. After two kinds of test materials, is now too little, can not be described here. The study is still continuing. Between 1966 and 1968, under the shadow of the Cultural Revolution (7 Ministry of Machine has been a huge shock, not to mention in this skip) ,640-2 project to move forward with another: 140 mm smoothbore gun, firing 18 kg weight of the warheads, the results achieved muzzle velocity 1600 m / s, shot high reached 74 km. This is a great leap forward - not only that, carried out in 140 artillery 11 48 hair test to prove: sub-caliber shells and reliable airframe structure, flight stability.

Dream of China's super-cannon, but also gradually clearer ... ...

Pioneer supergun

In January 1967, "640-2" project will hold a demonstration program; It was at this meeting, the Chinese program is to determine the super-cannon. Under the program, the super cannon design parameters are as follows:

Gunner 26 meters
155 tons of heavy artillery
Aperture unknown
Shells sub-caliber rockets
Weight 160 kg bomb
A muzzle velocity of 900 meters / sec
High fire unknown

The design goal is clear: to strive in 1969 to participate in interception "East Wind III" warhead tests. This door is without precedent in the history of China's super-cannon, was given a resounding name: Pioneer.

From the figure we can clearly see that Pioneer is fixed on the ground of the super-cannon. In addition, Pioneer long barrel, it is all three very unique stand - so cannon, the actual weight of the barrel takes very alarming; barrel in order to prevent sagging, the German Krupp often in the stretch on the an issue, while the Pioneer, then the use of technical support seem to be more easily achieved way.

For a super-cannon, the chassis is fixed, relatively low muzzle velocity, support-type barrel, from the tactics that can not be said to be very good; but take into account the Pioneer only be used to ground air defense, the enemy warhead inevitably fall from the sky, this program there is also a rational point. After all, the Pioneer and former super-artillery mission different from a cannon purely technical performance indicators to compare and easily biased.

In short, if we can complete the "high-altitude warhead hit" tasks, it is successful - from this perspective, Pioneer's design ideas, and there is no problem; On the home is not fit over the intercept a nuclear warhead, specifically, how operation, then with the Pioneer does not have relationship.

In order to intercept incoming warheads, a gun is clearly wrong with the way a bullet - if Dabu Zhao, I am afraid there will be no chance of a second firing. In order to effectively intercept, it must be within 20 kilometers altitude - otherwise, low-altitude explosions of nuclear warheads, they completely lost the meaning of interception - this time, single-shot non-controlled rocket-propelled grenades "quasi-head" has been Dacheng problem, the probability of interception can not be guaranteed. To this end, we must form a dense cannon group, while shooting. This means that, in order to achieve an effective block, this 155 tons of the Pioneer, we must make a lot of doors possible to achieve design goals.

Artillery projectile left the gun barrels, they Zaimo the whereabouts of one can interfere in the. Therefore, needed to adjust intercept ballistic super-cannon, the rocket is equipped with no control is extremely inappropriate. And if the artillery guidance system is installed, the whole artillery missiles would be used - although they are still artillery of. In this way, large-scale salvo of the blanket into a small-scale interception precision strike, its effect is much better. After much research later, naturally, the 210 has finally changed the research direction, from the artillery rockets, missiles, artillery instead. At the same time, the above study also proposed can be used to combat the low-altitude interception system, the purpose of some is to deal with conventional warheads. Missiles, artillery shells and the existing high-speed, high-precision missiles there, regardless of the level of block can be used.

Since then, China's super-cannon developed by the second phase, also from 1970, officially began.

The resulting new technical stumbling block; careful count, probably two. Only the first is the size of the problem. The early seventies, China, missiles, already has many forms, but to "small" to be able to into the gun barrels, may hard to find a suitable varieties.

The second only is the overload. People upstairs fall, the overload is a G; fighter to do tactical actions, and instant overload can reach 7-8 G; spaceship take-off and return the maximum transient overload can go to 10 G or so. The artillery, "bang" That's what, with the warhead to bear much overload?

Calculated according to the parameters of super-cannon, probably have to bear 5000-10000 G! Such a poor working environment, airframe structures, engines, electronic equipment and even the top of the development, have raised the harsh too daunting, almost harsh demands - at a time when the Chinese, there is no accumulated experience in this area. All, only to start from scratch to explore. The groping, you have a component to a. Starting from the gyro, acceleration table, servo system, amplifier, inverter machine, antenna, speed control, missile telemetry systems on the ... ... had to be tested.

Here, too, say one more thing: In the year environment, still able to adhere to the work of Chinese scientists is really admirable! Through unremitting efforts, and from 1000-5000 G, artillery experiments 210 researchers ultimately concluded that: some parts had been strengthened, they can withstand 3000-5000 G ultra-high overload - and the reinforcement approach to put it bluntly, is not a mystery, is to use their own wax, or epoxy casting insulation.

But the top, or not do. Gyro, it is the whole core of the missile components to determine their attitude, if gyro not, then how could it get? To solve this problem, 210, and Yi Siyi ○ Ministry of Electronics Industry in collaboration with the beginning pre-research Zhenliang rate gyro. The result is exciting, the trial out of Zhenliang rate gyro After several trials, successfully weathered the 3000-5000 G, several tests are completely normal, has now been finalized and equipment to other missile projects.

In this one, has won the National Invention Award.

Bomb changed, guns naturally need to change. This time, the idea of gun design has also changed significantly: In order to meet the requirements of low-altitude interceptor, interceptor does not require such a high pace of their work; to this end, the researchers selected non-recoilless rifle. Non-recoilless rifle, that is kind of like a bit like a rocket-propelled grenades, firing back a long flame spray gun. Because the propellant combustion, a large number of gas an outlet that, unlike in other years, as desperation artillery, only pushing the projectile death-defying run; Therefore, it fired a projectile, the speed was correspondingly lower down. 50 kg projectile, loaded into 200-mm recoilless rifle caliber free years, after the launch speed of 820 meters / second - the result of the acquisition, direct proof that a low chamber pressure, low-velocity non-recoilless rifle conventional design is feasible The.

On this basis, China's largest caliber gun was designed out - it was actually surprised to the caliber of 420 millimeters in no way inferior to some well-known super-cannon!

However, the information inside this gate which is called "China's most" of the introduction of fixed-trajectory gun, only this one.

Meanwhile, the corresponding recovery of projectiles have also done a study:

- 140-mm artillery shells at high overload recovery parachute tests, successfully;

- From 3000-15000 G, high overload environment, parachute recovery, the success rate of 100%;

- Projectile speed of 2-3 times the speed of sound when the parachute and successfully.

Several studies above and directly contributed to China's spacecraft, the progress of re-entry parachute recovery technology - in other words, today the success of Shenzhou VI, which also has a super cannon project credit ah! While researchers continue to study at the same time, the world situation is quietly changing.

In 1972, the United States and the Soviet Union signed the Anti-Ballistic Missile Missile Treaty. This means that, through mutual restrictions "shield" the number and scope, to ensure that the "spear" is sharp, thereby ensuring the "balance of terror." Then, in 1975, the United States again has just completed an anti-missile defense area closed. And so on, can not fail to affect the decision-makers and participants in 640 projects.

3 months later in February 1978, two hospital submitted to the Ministry of Machine 7 "About Eryi ○ direction of the report of the Institute's mandate," and proposed the termination of the ABM supergun pre-research work. Also passed two months, April 26, 1978, seven aircraft Song Renqiong Minister conveyed to the two House Science Committee's views on national defense: the formation of a crack team to continue to explore multi-channel Anti-Ballistic Missile; requirements earmarking; other forces take offensive weapons research task.

So three sentences 640-2 has the size of the project team battle is much smaller.

Two months later, June 29, 1978, Deng Xiaoping, Vice-Chairman of the Central Committee meeting on post-secondary instruction: a study or to study can be left to some people continue to engage. This meeting clearly sets out the Department of Space 2 House of direction: to put power on the development of offensive weapons; ABM model developed by the task, adjusting for individual pre-ways to explore and research. March 19, 1980, according to the Ministry of National Defense Science and Technology Commission and seven machine decision ,640-2 project that is "super-gun anti-missile project," and finally stopped development and testing.

Development of China's super-cannon, to this end.

(D), counter-series of missiles

One counter-attack missile was then seven Ministry of Machine 2 Hospitals (now known as the China Aerospace Electromechanical Group, two homes, called Changfeng Electromechanical Technology Research and Design Institute) did not complete high-speed low-level anti-missile pilot projects.

Graphic: back on the 1st, back on the 3rd missile on the launch pad were raised to heaven, the defense of the motherland sky. It was a red era, full of glory and dreams. Counter-attack on the 1st to the counter-attack on the 3rd of China's "640" Project of the anti-ballistic missile system, part of the anti-missile missiles.

2 Hospital since 1964 began to organize teams, in August 1969 into an anti-missile, anti-satellite in general Institute, 10 were carried out within a few years anti-ballistic missile intercept test system with low system-wide strike on the 1st auxiliary equipment development. In August 1979 to September through production, assembly, testing, successfully carried out two bomb hair model flight test telemetry.

At the same time, due to Zhenbao Island in 1969 Sino-Soviet conflict, China began to universal access to quasi-war. In addition to digging, the anti-ballistic missile program has become urgent. In order to put into use as quickly as possible, China's first resorted to "counter-II" anti-missile system to intercept low-level test. 71 October to 72 years in April, China has carried out six missile 1:5 model experiments, five of which were successful. Adjustment of the mandate in 1973, stopped due to development;

1974, 5 ~ 6 months, seven aircraft and two House co-organized the Department held a counter-attack on the 3rd High-intercept missile weapon system program of seminars and technical coordination meeting, and supporting equipment to carry out the development and key technology research. Back on the 3rd in 1977 stopped the development, which have been successfully developed S-7 Large-board computer become a "fifth wind" strategic missiles and other types of ancillary facilities. At the same time, also completed the practice on the 2nd B in satellite design, anti-wei on the 1st (satellite ASAT) weapons systems, the overall design and some of the equipment development and testing, these tests were all successful; the construction of China's 60 years of conventional hypersonic wind 0.5 m hole there in order to "counter the" missile testing purposes. After the completion of 75 years, respectively, for the "East Wind", "counter", "waves," "Dawn," "Vanguard", "Dongsheng", "Red Flag" wind tunnel tests of various projects (from 95 years of publication "cave heavens and wind and thunder" a book). Now only the "Dongsheng" This strange code does not know what is useless to send, when things need to hypersonic hair is really small, Dongsheng ranked the dawn of the spacecraft with the red vanguard among the anti-aircraft missiles, but also the "East" prefix weapons , from the strategic importance of the sort seen in, perhaps this type of device orbital bombardment system. People's Liberation Army's military under the anti-missile project progress to the central authorities put forward the "zone program was conceived to Beijing."

(5), strategic early warning system

Series with the counter-attack the anti-missile interceptors than the 640 project's strategic early warning radar system developing rather smoothly. The radar system consists of two rated as the most of the radar in China: 7010 phased array radar and 110 mono-pulse tracking radar. Both are products of Nanjing Institute of Electronic Technology. Among them, the radar in 7010 started to develop for 70 years in May, some 72 years of experimental installation, 74 years put into use 76 years into full installation, 77 years completed. The radar can continuously track the 10 approved the above goals. 110 radar in 66 years started to develop, 77 delivered.

7010 phased array early warning radar is China's "640 Project" strategic early warning system one of the components. The radar in May 1970 approved the development. 7010 Radar Transmitter with four high-power multi-cavity klystron, with a total peak power of 10 MW, average power of 200 kW, electric scanning antenna array surface is wide and 40 meters high 20 meters, feed unit 8976, detection range of 3,000 km. 120 degrees in azimuth and elevation 2-80 degrees while airspace to search while tracking, continuous tracking batches of target computers equipped with the sizes of the full-stop real-time control, processing and computing. Using pulse compression, anti-side lobe, variable polarization and other anti-interference measures, a `some key components, ext using duplex redundancy, with the work of the whole machine condition monitoring system and fault display system. 1972, a small planar array antennas installation of equipment set up and the FBI. Radar is set at an altitude of more than 1.6 thousand meters on the slopes, after several years of effort on the eve of the 25th anniversary of National Day observed in outer space targets. In 1976 to conduct a comprehensive array antenna installation, commissioning, and operational.

This is built on the plateau Huang Yangshan Saibei cliff on the radar for the 7010 Northwest

7010 Radar underground command center

This is the abandoned 7010 radar. Appalling

110 single-pulse tracking radar is China's "640 Project" strategic early warning system one of the components, detection range of more than 2,000 km. From 1965 to 1970, China developed in 1959 based on 110, radar simulation carried out Cassegrain antenna single pulse, pulse compression, pulse-Doppler velocimetry, parametric amplifier, advanced computer applications, a large antenna structure and the turntable research, were technological breakthroughs and entered the implementation phase of the radar project. In 1977, China's first 110 ultra long-range tracking radar equipment units can be tracked more than 2,000 miles away in outer space non-cooperative targets, in our launch intercontinental rockets, satellites and other projects carried out several times in tracking foreign targets in outer space任务.

110 single-pulse long-range tracking radar

110 Radar, 7010 The successful development of radar, so that China has become the world's first large-scale three ultra-long-range tracking radar country.

640 works will include the building of strategic early warning system, in which stations south to Hainan Island, west to Kashgar in Xinjiang, Shandong, east Jiaodong. Command center is located in Weinan's "28" area. 28 ground-based observing system as a whole is the command center is equipped with the most comprehensive observation station, the original base for the missile tests, its facilities include a pre-telemetry stations, Recycle Bin, activity stations.

A project is completed, the six stations with Kashi Tianshan Station, Nanning Guijiang Station, Kunming Dianchi Lake Station, Hainan, South Island stations, Jiaodong Bohai Sea Station, Western Hunan station, then an additional code-named "Qinling" control computing station, code-named " Yangtze River "recycling stations, code-named" outposts ", the first activity stations, code-named" Yellow River "activity station and the second code-named" Great Wall "of Changchun station. Missile tracking and launch a number of stations needed coordination and control, which requires an extremely precise time-integration system to a unified time reference. Was then put this code-named "930" unified safety equipment when shipped back to base, the Chengdu Military Region of the People's Liberation Army sent an even pressure along the transport, the Ministry of Defense held a special permit, any person who cause trouble entrapment, shoot to kill.

At that time, these early-warning radar units are in a highly confidential state. Local people know there are a People's Liberation Army troops, but never on the people and local contacts, but also did not like the other People's Liberation Army forces to engage in "military-civilian joint construction" of the types of activities, and even force Which military services have trouble is not clear, only to see the bare base's enormous spherical radome, so the locals put this mysterious force known as the "big ball unit."

After 1977, the completion of these two giant radar on many occasions China's missiles, and satellite observation mission; in counter-attack on the 1st anti-ballistic missile test, the missile body is only 10 seconds away from the frame was firmly grasp it, and stable tracking, rapid prediction impact point for the rocket, made an important contribution to anti-missile tests; an accurate forecast of the United States in 1979, "Sky Lab" Fall; in May 1980, it issued two Dongfeng-5-type ICBM full trial, respectively of the X16 seconds and X96-second tracking data, the furthest distance of 3,000 kilometers of track; July 18, 1981, 7010 radar receive and Industry for National Defense, director of the then Chief of Staff Zhang Min a telephone, calls for 19, the Soviet Union launched the Pacific launch vehicle tracking. 7010 consecutive start for 11 days, on 19 and 28, the two observed two launch vehicles, the timely launch point and impact point prediction of the latitude and longitude, warning time and range. From the measurement data analysis, two missiles with multiple warheads, the Soviet Union unpublished pilot project, the form of a low-trajectory launch, apparently in order to test the accuracy of sub-missile guidance heads. After engaging in other channels available information shows that 7010 observations are correct.

January 12, 1983 received a higher-level instructions to observe and intercept are dangerous to the Earth's 1402 fall of the Soviet Union nuclear-powered satellite. However, due to non-disclosure of the Soviet side the satellite orbital parameters, 110, huge rotating radar antenna, continuous work four and a half hours, remained in the needle in the haystack, nothing. Until the first 3 days, Kunming station to track the target only to the timely notification Zhanyi station. Under the notification of the orbital parameters, 18 and 19, the two start a continuous capture Zhanyi the target, and can identify the three objectives, as the 1402A, 1402B, 1402C.

January 22, 1983, Zhang Min, chief of staff to call the station and asked about the pieces of The Fall of the Soviet spy satellite time and place. Central government was already in power positions to make the country X interceptors, in case the satellite fell into my densely populated areas, be sure, in its fallen before their interception, destroyed, protecting people's lives and property. Day noon, Zhanyi station BX-10 computer through the solution of calculation, arrived at 1402A Fall of time at 4:00 on January 24 to between 8 am and will be reported in this projection of Science, Technology. At 5:00 on January 24, Zhanyi station also reported that out of the stars, the exact time of re-entry at 6:30 on the 24th place for the longitude 67.9 degrees north latitude and 1.1 degrees, do not fall into the territory of China! It was placed under the leadership of the Central Military Commission and the heart. The actual fall of 1402 satellite stations longer than the forecast Zhanyi just nine minutes earlier, the displacement error of 3.4 thousand kilometers.

U.S. North American Aerospace Defense Command, the forecasting time than accurate, than the actual time was within 1 minute, but the displacement error of tens of thousands of kilometers, the scope of China's big three times the forecast! This shows that the radar early-warning capacity in China at that time reached the world advanced level. By the monitoring network in charge of our satellites, has also made 15 successful launches 14 recycling success.

(6), a comprehensive ocean-going tracking ship space

4: "Yuan Wang Number One", "Yuan Wang II" ship is the first generation of a comprehensive ocean-going tracking ship space, is mainly responsible spacecraft measurement, control, communications, and salvage recovery task is to China's space tracking and control network of the important components section. Two sister ships in 1965 by the National Defense Science and Technology Commission approval, 1967 by the Shanghai 708 Research Institute began to demonstrate the design, in September 1976 started the construction of the Jiangnan Shipyard, 1977, 8,10 On the completion of the water, to Chairman Mao's hand-written poems of Ye Jianying, " Yuanwang "named -" Yuan Wang 1 "," Yuan Wang 2 ". Boat length 191 meters, 22.6 meters wide ship, the ship 38 meters high, with an average depth of 7.5 meters, full load displacement of 21,157 tons. "Yuan Wang I" ship in the last 30 years, Daohai test days, the course of ever playing football arrows, 41 times across the oceans and marine operations and nearly 1,500 days, total range of more than 270,000 sea miles, has 38 successfully completed the satellite, the spacecraft and other major state-level scientific research and experiments. "Yuan Wang II" has 28 ships cross the ocean, safe navigation nearly 400,000 sea miles (equivalent to 20 laps around the earth), 20 docked in foreign ports, the successful completion of 31 major scientific research and experiments, setting China's space ocean monitoring and control in the history of "six of the most", "four for the first time" (the most complete implementation of the task model, the highest frequency sea, maritime longest continuous monitoring and control, task switching time, the shortest stop outer most times, the total range as far as the first times bear the sea of foreign satellite launches measurement tasks, the first time the satellite sea control, the first successful use of joint-control technology Attitude s major attitude adjustment on the satellite, the first stop outer), etc. records.

Yuanwang No.

Yuanwang II

"Yuan Wang IV" ship was in August 1998 by the original "Xiang Yang Hong No. 10," space converted ocean-going tracking ship, the main responsible for maritime satellite and spacecraft tracking, telemetry, communications, and control tasks. The "Xiangyanghong 10" boat for the long-range rockets of our full flight test (code 718 works) developed the first large-scale comprehensive study of marine science and ocean-going communications ship and marine engineering from the China Ship Design and Research Institute and Jiangnan Shipyard in February 1971 began to study the design, construction started in July 1975, delivered in October 1979, has completed China's first launch vehicle test to the Pacific Ocean, the first Antarctic expedition and Antarctic Great Wall Station Jianzhan task, for the first time the South Pacific Ocean tasks such as scientific exploration and achieved fruitful results. The vessel has 10 decks, with nearly 7,000 tons of steel, nearly 9,000 units installed equipment, the laying of pipelines near 29 km, laying cable about 190 kilometers, and its construction is equivalent to 3 million-ton capacity vessels.

China's first self-designed and manufactured a 10000-ton large-scale ocean science integrated research ship

On board in addition to a general comprehensive marine survey ship all of the various instruments and experimental work outdoors, it also boasts: large-scale ship-borne helicopters, the system can meet a "Super Hornet" helicopter for use at sea a long-term requirements; Meteorological Center system which can bear the consequences of short-term weather forecasts and hazardous weather warnings; all-weather ocean communications systems, can protect the multi-network large-capacity data communication and relay the day Hou special letter;-power Ocean Marine acoustic systems, could be a long continuous sound of ocean water test and sonar equipment testing; dive boat working the system. The vessel was awarded the Year 1979 National Defense Science and Technology Commission of major scientific and technological achievements overall design of the first prize in 1985, won the National Scientific and Technological Progress of China's first Grand Prize Award.

(G), 640 Chronology of major events engineering

December 1963: Mao Zedong launched the initiative of defense strategy.
February 6, 1964: a clear vision put forward defense strategy.
1964: two hospital organizations, the development team.
1964-1966: National Defense Science and Technology, etc. is envisaged that from 1973 to 1975, developed a test system.
October 1967: "640" project meeting, that "five system of the code, and to speed up the construction of anti-missile test range and carrying out anti-ballistic missile with a nuclear warhead development work and recommendations."
August 14, 1969: Zhou Enlai instructed the Ministry of two homes bear the seven anti-aircraft missile development.
August 1969: Second homes as an anti-missile, anti-satellite research institute in general, to fight back on the 1st full-system development.
1970: two homes on the 2nd low-altitude interceptor weapon system programs to counter demonstration and development work.
October 1971 -1,972 years in April: counter-attack on the 2nd to 6 times 1:5 model of elastic ejection tests, five were successful.
1973: back on the 2nd stop research.
1974, May-June: 7 machine department and two congressional committees are holding back on the 3rd High-intercept missile weapon system program of seminars and technical coordination meeting, and supporting equipment to carry out the development and key technology research.
1977: back on the 3rd stop research.
1977: Completion of practice on the 2nd B in satellite design, anti-wei on the 1st and part of the overall design weapons systems, equipment, research and experiment, and both were successful.
1977: A zone of the program envisages the construction of Beijing and Tianjin, the General Assembly to carry out war and so on.
August 1979 -9 months: two made a successful counter-attack on the 1st model of missile flight test telemetry.
March 9, 1980: Anti-Wei on the 1st stop. "640" project temporarily suspended.

(Viii), not the outcome of the outcome of

In March 1980, "Anti-Health One," to stop the development, shortly after then-Vice Premier Deng Xiaoping ordered the suspension of the entire 640 program. In 1999, a short-lived local decryption 640 plan, China will continue to maintain silence.

Nearly 30 years later, January 11, 2010, China carried out in the middle of a land-based anti-missile interception technology test, test to achieve the desired purpose. The Chinese Foreign Ministry said the test was defensive in nature, not directed against any country.

http://www.aladding.com/newsDetail.cfm?postid=486147
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"March 9, 1980: Anti-Wei on the 1st stop. "640" project temporarily suspended. "

China’s Anti-Ballistic Missile Threat

2010-01-16T09:57:00.000-08:00

China’s Anti-Ballistic Missile Test: Much Ado About Nothing
Air Power Australia - Australia's Independent Defence Think Tank

Air Power Australia NOTAM
14th January, 2010
Dr Martin Andrew, RAAF (Retd)

http://www.ausairpower.net/APA-NOTAM-140110-1.html

PLAAF have a 5 generations

2010-01-03T18:08:00.000-08:00

"I would contend that in the past decade or so, China has exceeded most of our intelligence estimates of their military capability and capacity every year. They've grown at an unprecedented rate in those capabilities."
--Admiral Robert F. Willard, Commander, U.S. Pacific Command, October 21, 2009
http://www.strategycenter.net/research/pubID.219/pub_detail.asp

1- J-10B
Yu Xiao-Quan
2009-11-23 15:48:26 Source: Xinhua News Agency
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Xinhua News Agency, Beijing, November 23 (Reporter Sun Maoqing) - Relevant responsible persons of the Air Force 23, said the recent media reports of "four generations of machine" refers to the improved F -10 series aircraft.

For the combat aircraft of the designated representatives of state, the world's major military powers are not consistent. The United States will be highlighted in the low-altitude, sub-transonic maneuverability of the F-15, F-16 fighters are divided into three generations of machines, will feature stealth, supersonic cruise and ultra-mobile performance F-22, F-35 fighter plane is divided into four generations of machines . Russia will be Mig -29, Su -27/30 divided into three generations of fighter aircraft, the Su -35 aircraft, such as an improved third-generation machine is divided into four generations of machines, will have a stealth, supersonic cruise, and a new generation of ultra-mobility fighter plane is divided into five generations.

The official said that China's combat aircraft primarily in the introduction, imitation on the basis of Russian-made equipment, the independent innovation and development, the media calls "four generations of machine" refers to an improved F -10 series aircraft. (End)

J-15/J-13,had its first flight.
http://china-pla.blogspot.com/2010/01/review-of-chinese-aviation-industry-in.html
Chinese designers have reportedly already developed some components, such as landing gear configurations that allow for the higher sink rates required for a carrier-capable aircraft. The J-13 is projected to fly sometime around 2013.
http://theasiandefence.blogspot.com/2009/03/full-steam-ahead-for-chinas-engine.html

China pledges to advance relations with Djibouti

2009-12-31T23:49:00.000-08:00

China pledges to advance relations with Djibouti

(Source: Xinhua) 2009-12-30

Chinese Vice President Xi Jinping (R) meets with Djibouti Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation Mahamoud Ali Youssouf in Beijing, Dec. 29, 2009. (Xinhua/Liu Weibing)

　　BEIJING, Dec. 29 (Xinhua) -- China on Tuesday pledged to work with Djibouti to push forward friendly cooperation in various sectors and advance bilateral relations into a new level.

"We value the ties with Djibouti," Chinese Vice President Xi Jinping said when meeting with Mahamoud Ali Youssouf, Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation of the African nation.

Hailing the smooth growth of bilateral relations, Xi said it set a good example for the friendly cooperation between large and small countries.

This year marks the 30th anniversary of the establishment of China-Djibouti diplomatic ties. Xi hoped the two nations would grasp this opportunity to further promote bilateral relations.

China applauded Djibouti's support in issues concerning the country's core interests, Xi said.

Youssouf expressed appreciation for China's long-term assistance to his country without attaching any political conditions.

Youssouf also spoke highly of China's African policy, saying that Djibouti and many African countries adopted a "Look East" policy, which aimed to boost their cultural, economic and trade relations with China and other nations.

Djibouti would continue adhering to the one-China policy and increasing cooperation with China in climate change and other international affairs, he noted.

The minister also hoped to work with China to promote Djibouti-China and Africa-China relations.

Youssouf was here on an official visit from Dec. 28 to 30 at the invitation of Chinese Foreign Minister Yang Jiechi.

The two foreign ministers held talks early Tuesday, agreeing to enhance friendly exchanges and cooperation between the two nations.

Chinese 5th generation stealth fighter designed to

2009-12-14T19:59:00.001-08:00

This is the Google translation of DF-31A's Reply #701, above:

Russians do not help the Chinese 5th generation stealth fighter designed to

Updated: 2009/12/07 18:36

(Central News Agency Xinhua Wang Manna Hong Kong 7) Han Dynasty and the founder Andrei Chang Defense Review, said today that the just concluded military-technical cooperation of Russia Committee meeting, the Russian exports to China that it does not 5th generation (West, 4th generation) fighters advanced technologies, or to help China design the 5th generation stealth fighter.

Andrei Chang quoted the Russian military technology to participate in the meeting, Russian officials said that in the Russia-China military cooperation meeting, the Russian position will continue to provide China with RD93 engine for China and Pakistan co-production of JF17 fighters, Russia this year and China's exports next year will be 57 units RD93 engines, but the latest generation of Russian-made S400 surface-form is not being exported to China.

However, the Russian side that Russia, China, the installation of the F-10 fighter engine AL31FN without Russian permission, may not be exported to any country.

The official added that the meeting did not sign any new military technology contracts, nor to discuss China's large Russian-made replica weapons. Russian side believes that China will not recognize imitation Russian weapons, even if the discussion is useless, the Chinese people still continue to imitation.

The official said Russia would soon flight test their own 5th generation fighter aircraft, but is based on Russia's 5th generation fighter technology, Russia, India, 50% of the shares will be the way to help the Indian Air Force, joint development of 5th generation stealth fighter, the biggest The difference is that India's first 5th generation fighter is two-seater, while Russia's 5th generation fighter aircraft are mainly single-seater.

He added that at present able to share the Russian 5th generation fighter technology, the country is only in India, Russia is not ready for export to China advanced 5th generation fighter technology, including radar, engines, avionics systems, Russia also will not help China 5th generation stealth fighter aircraft design.

Andrei Chang said that Russia and India jointly designed the 5th generation stealth fighter flight in 2012 is scheduled for 2015, to join the Indian Air Force. 981,207

Peace,

missile destroyer Shijiazhuang in Latin America

2009-11-28T17:36:00.000-08:00

Chinese naval fleet leaves Chile for Peru

(Source: Xinhua) 2009-11-29

　　VALPARAISO, Chile, Nov. 27 (Xinhua) -- A Chinese naval flotilla Saturday concluded its good-will visit to Chile and sailed for Peru to continue its South America tour.

　　The squadron, composed of missile destroyer Shijiazhuang and supply ship Hongzehu, unmoored at around 10:00 a.m. local time and sailed from the Valparaiso military wharf to music played by the Chile navy's military band.

　　The two-vessel fleet arrived in Chile on Monday for the Chinese Navy's second visit to Chile since 1997.

　　During the four-day visit, Major General Wang Fushan, commander of the fleet, met with Chilean Defense Minister Francisco Vidal and other high-ranking military and government officials.

China, N.Korea pledge to strengthen alliance

2009-11-24T17:51:00.000-08:00

by Staff Writers
Seoul (AFP) Nov 23, 2009
Chinese and North Korean defence chiefs have pledged to strengthen their military alliance -- dating back to the Korean War -- during talks in Pyongyang, state media said Monday.

The move came after Chinese Defence Minister Liang Guanglie arrived in North Korea for talks Sunday, the Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) said.

Liang told a reception by Pyongyang's defence chief Kim Yong-Chun that the bilateral relationship was "sealed in blood" when he and other Chinese troops fought the 1950-1953 Korean War on the North Koreans' side.

"No force on earth can break the unity of the armies and peoples of the two countries and it will last forever," Liang said, according to KCNA.

"It is the fixed stand of the Korean army and people to invariably consolidate and develop the DPRK (North Korea)-China friendship, which has stood all trials of history," Kim Yong-Chun said.

The defence chiefs then had "comradely and friendly" talks, according to the report.

KCNA said Liang arrived in Pyongyang by plane on Sunday, inspected an honour guard, attended a fete, presented a gift for North Korean leader Kim Jong-Il, and met with Kim Yong-Chun, but gave no more details on his itinerary.

Chinese state media announced Friday that Liang would be on a three-nation tour of North Korea, Japan and Thailand from Sunday to December 5.

The trip comes as Stephen Bosworth, US special representative for North Korean policy, is scheduled to visit the communist state on December 8 in order to persuade it to return to six-party nuclear disarmament talks.

North Korea quit the talks in April, a month before it tested a second atomic weapon. Pyongyang said last month it was ready to return to the talks, but only if bilateral meetings with the US make progress.

The six-nation talks, which began more than six years ago, group the two Koreas, the United States, China, Russia and Japan.

China has hosted the talks since 2003.

Though being one of North Korea's handful of remaining allies, China has joined tougher United Nations Security Council sanctions to punish Pyongyang for its defiant nuclear weapons and missile tests.

But China has strongly opposed any moves that could escalate further tensions on the often volatile Korean peninsula.

Rodong Sinmun, North Korea's communist party newspaper and official mouthpiece, Monday denounced the latest inter-Korean naval clash earlier this month as a US-South Korean scheme to ignite a new war.

Navy boats from the two Koreas had a brief but intensive exchange of fire near the disputed Yellow Sea border on November 10 -- the first such skirmish in seven years.

Seoul said its navy left a North Korean patrol boat in flames and local media reports said one North Korean sailor was killed and three wounded.

Pyongyang has since threatened to take "merciless" military action to protect its own version of the Yellow Sea border with South Korea and warned that Seoul would pay dearly for any future naval clash.

The North refuses to recognise the borderline set by the United Nations after the 1950-1953 war and demands that it be drawn further to the south.

improved J-10 5-generation

2009-11-24T17:18:00.000-08:00

Air Force department heads: "The four-generation machine" refers to the improved F-series aircraft -10

Yu Xiao-Quan
2009-11-23 15:48:26 Source: Xinhua News Agency
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Xinhua News Agency, Beijing, November 23 (Reporter Sun Maoqing) - Relevant responsible persons of the Air Force 23, said the recent media reports of "four generations of machine" refers to the improved F -10 series aircraft.

For the combat aircraft of the designated representatives of state, the world's major military powers are not consistent. The United States will be highlighted in the low-altitude, sub-transonic maneuverability of the F-15, F-16 fighters are divided into three generations of machines, will feature stealth, supersonic cruise and ultra-mobile performance F-22, F-35 fighter plane is divided into four generations of machines . Russia will be Mig -29, Su -27/30 divided into three generations of fighter aircraft, the Su -35 aircraft, such as an improved third-generation machine is divided into four generations of machines, will have a stealth, supersonic cruise, and a new generation of ultra-mobility fighter plane is divided into five generations.

The official said that China's combat aircraft primarily in the introduction, imitation on the basis of Russian-made equipment, the independent innovation and development, the media calls "four generations of machine" refers to an improved F -10 series aircraft. (End)

http://chn.chinamil.com.cn/xwpdxw/2009-11/23/content_4084111.htm

US report spying
http://online.wsj.com/public/resources/documents/chinaspy20091022.pdf

Report PLAN for OIN.

2009-11-22T12:24:00.000-08:00

http://www.fas.org/irp/agency/oni/pla-navy.pdf

China threat

2009-11-17T19:30:00.000-08:00

China,Brazil to advance military ties to a new high

(Source: Xinhua) 2009-11-18

China and Brazil vowed to advance military relations to a new high as senior officials from both countries met here Tuesday.

　　As strategic partners and large developing countries, bilateral relations between China and Brazil made strides in recent years, said Xu Caihou, Vice Chairman of China's Central Military Commissions.

　　In meeting with visiting Brazilian Defense Minister Nelson Jobim, Xu said China would like to work with Brazil for new achievements of the bilateral ties and made new contribution to world peace and stability.

　　"We are pleased to see the increasingly pragmatic defense and military exchanges," Xu said.

　　Jobim said his country had much in common with China and shared similar views on many issues. He echoed Xu's point in strengthening cooperation to further the bilateral military relations.
Editor:Ouyang Dongmei

http://english.people.com.cn/90001/90776/90883/6816066.html

Chinese arms sell threat

2009-11-15T15:48:00.000-08:00

RMAF Seeks China's Logistic Support For Sukhoi Fighters
http://www.bernama.com/bernama/v5/newsindex.php?id=452966

By Vincent Low

BEIJING, Nov 6 (Bernama) -- Malaysia is strengthening its military air ties with China and has sought the assistance of the People's Liberation Army (PLA) in maintenance and logistics support for Malaysia's fleet of Sukhoi SU-30 fighter jets.

Royal Malaysian Air Force (RMAF) chief Jeneral Datuk Seri Rodzali Daud said Malaysia was also looking into acquiring some Chinese military ware.

"China had risen to become the superpower of the region and is advanced in its technology as well and our relationship with China is getting better and better," Jen Rodzali told Bernama Friday.

"They can help us in many areas, like for parts and maintenance of the SU-30. In fact, Malaysia is also looking into some of the Chinese military products."

The RMAF has 18 Russian made SU-30 fighter jets while China also has large numbers of Russian made fighter jets including the Sukhoi SU-30.

Jen Rodzali was among the air force chiefs from 34 countries invited for a two-day international forum starting today in conjunction with the PLA Air Force (PLAF) 60th anniversary.

He met his Chinese counterpart, General Xu Qiliang, at the PLAF headquarters on Thursday night.

Jen Rodzali said the RMAF would strengthen cooperation with the PLAF and in the past had participated in the exchange of personnel and regional security information.

At least six Malaysian military personnel were attached to China's Defence University and Staff College and China has agreed to send its first student to the Malaysia Defence College next year.

The RMAF delegation will attend a PLAF Air Show and Air Force equipment exhibition at Shahe Airfield near here on Saturday before visiting the PLAF Museum on Sunday.

The group will also visit Jining Airfield in eastern Shandong province on Monday to witness an exhibition of China-made fighter jets before returning to Kuala Lumpur.

Nanchang Q-6

2009-11-13T20:58:00.001-08:00

Nanchang Q-6 Nanchang Q-5 to the chief designer Lu Xiaopeng led the design Q-6. Q-6 design is based on MiG -23 began air power and structures. The mid-20th century, 70, in addition to two MiG-21M, China has acquired from abroad two MiG-23MS, two MiG-23BN, two MiG-23U, and 10 AS-5 ground missiles. Therefore, China imitation through reverse engineering of its components, in particular, avionics, and R-29 turbojet engine. Lu Xiaopeng also visited a number of Chinese air force and naval officers, the aircraft needed to listen to their views. In February 1979, the final design presented to National Defense Science and Technology Commission.
Q-6 is a variable-geometry wing aircraft. It draws most of the MiG -23 rear structure, and with a belly and a high intake of a new home before the cockpit fuselage combination. Q-6 plans to use 122.4 kN thrust of the WS-6 engines, aircraft weight of 14.5 thousand kilograms, the biggest load of bombs 4500 kilograms, combat radius of 900 km is expected to flight performance in excess of MiG -23.
In the sixties and seventies of last century, variable-geometry wing widely favored by the world of military aviation, several models have variable-geometry wing aircraft in service. China has noticed this trend and began their own research. In the 20th century, the mid-60s, China has actively carried out variable-geometry wing of the development work. Q-6 develop early, some people advocate that China should be the next generation of Strike Fighter F-111 MiG -23, or a sample. From the 20th century until the mid-60s late 70s, China has at least four conceptual proposals for the use of variable-geometry wing, including the Shenyang Aircraft Company's J-10 heavy fighters (with the current J-10 without any contact), Q -6 and similar F-111 / SU -24 / "wind" of the attack aircraft.
Q-5, compared with, Q-6 with multi-improved avionics system, and intends to use the MiG-23BN certain components within the equipment as a reference. Q-6 to be used in avionics systems include laser target indicators, tail warning radar, radio altimeter and radio gyro plate, but also intends to introduce a terrain contour matching and tracking system and modern flat-panel displays. However, most of the avionics system from the Soviet Union, with the use of IC compared with Western avionics system is clumsy old.
In China, one of the biggest problems facing the power plant, which is troubled by a number of other projects was a common problem. WS-6 engine after further improvement, in 1983, named after the completion WS-6G, rated 138.2 kN thrust. The engine with the J-9 and J-13's history, as experienced several delays due to technical problems. MiG -23 finally decided to adopt the R-29-300 engine, developed through the reverse 410 plant named WP-15. This is a double rotor turbojet engine, maximum afterburning thrust of 125.2 kN, 85.1 kN maximum thrust without afterburner. However, WP-15 ultimately did not equip any of the Chinese air force planes, but as a technical reserve preserved.
Q-6 on the development in progress, the modern military aircraft and the increasing use of telex control system. China's aviation industry started to pay attention telex control system and spend a lot of time to learn foreign technology, as well as editing software. The final Q-6 using the highly automated control system telex. JH-7 also used a telex control system, which means that the introduction of the Chinese Air Force Su--27 production of the aircraft before the Xi'an of China's most advanced fighter.
In addition to power plant addition, Q-6 to overcome the biggest obstacle is the reverse development of variable-geometry wing structure. In this regard, Nanchang, engineers and technicians experienced a serious problem because we can not copy the original design of the Soviet Union. Said that China's first variable-geometry wing structure of quasi-plane than the original weight of at least 12%, thereby reducing the new aircraft load of bombs, range and combat radius.
The same period, because at that time the Chinese regarded as the greatest enemy of the Soviet Union in the changes in weapons and equipment, leading to the Chinese military needs to change. The Soviet Union deployed along the Sino-Soviet border, such as S-300 and the modified surface to air missiles like the 9M38. Siberian Military District dense air defense network, already in flight to China pose a serious threat. Q-6 It is believed that low-flying than the JH-7 are more vulnerable to Soviet air defense forces to combat.
This new situation requires re-design, because far from done with Q-6 can not meet operational requirements. Because at this time of the JH-7 design and development work far exceeds the Q-6, Air Force and Navy will be fully attention to Xi'an, a large-scale attack bombers. When comparing the two has its own advantages: JH-7 structure is more simple, more compact aerodynamic design, a larger load of bombs, combat radius of more distant; while Q-6 more mobile, lower unit price.
It is reported that, Nanchang continue to develop variable-geometry wings and, ultimately, under the leadership of Lu Xiaopeng After eight years of hard work, in the late 20th century, 80 achieved a breakthrough. It seems, Nanchang to introduce a new design. The program uses the lower part of the nose inlet and variable-geometry wings, power installations in the WS-6 single or WS-6G. However, due to China's aviation industry made great achievements, the program came too late, and therefore can not escape the fate of being abandoned. With the JH-7's successful flight test, Q-6 for all the development work is concluded.

南昌Q—6 南昌以Q—5主设计师陆孝彭为首设计Q—6。Q—6开始的设计是以米格-23的航空动力和结构为基础。20世纪70年代中期，除了两架米格—21M外，中国还从国外获得两架米格—23MS、两架米格-23BN、两架米格-23U和10枚AS-5空地导弹。因此，中国通过逆向工程仿制其零部件，尤其是航电和 R-29涡喷发动机。陆孝彭还拜访了许多中国空军和海航的军官，听取他们对所需飞机的意见。 1979年2月，最终设计方案呈送给国防科委。
Q-6是一种变后掠机翼飞机。它借鉴了米格-23的大部分后部结构，与带机腹进气道和高置座舱的全新前机身相结合。Q—6计划采用推力122.4 千牛的WS-6发动机，飞机重量达14500千克，最大载弹量4500千克，作战半径预计900千米，飞行性能超过米格-23。
在上世纪六七十年代，变后掠机翼广受世界军用航空界的青睐，数款变后掠机翼战斗机相继服役。中国注意到这种趋势，并开始自己的研究。在20世纪 60年代中期，中国积极开展变后掠机翼的研制工作。Q-6研制初期，就有人主张中国的下一代攻击战斗机应以米格-23或F—111为样本。从20世纪60 年代中期直至70年代末期，中国至少有四个概念方案采用变后掠机翼，其中包括沈飞公司的J—10重型战斗机(与目前的J—10没有任何联系)、Q—6以及类似F—111／苏-24／"狂风”的攻击机。
与Q—5相比，Q—6采用多方改进的航电系统，并打算用米格-23BN内装备的某些部件作为参照。拟用于Q-6的航电系统包括激光目标指示器、机尾告警雷达、无线电高度表以及无线电陀螺盘，同时还打算采用地形匹配与跟踪系统以及现代化的平面显示器。但由于大部分航电系统源于苏联，与使用集成电路的西方航电系统相比显得笨拙陈旧。
在中国，面临的最大问题之一就是动力装置，这也是困扰当时许多其它项目的通病。WS—6发动机经过进一步改进，于1983年完成后定名为WS- 6G，额定推力138.2千牛。该发动机与J—9和J—13的历史一样，由于技术问题经历数次推迟。最后决定采用米格-23的R—29-300发动机，经过410厂的逆向研制被命名为WP-15。这是一种双转子涡喷发动机，最大加力推力125.2千牛，不加力最大推力85.1千牛。然而，WP-15最终没装备任何中国空军的飞机，而是作为技术储备保存下来。
就在Q—6研制进行时，现代军用飞机越来越多地使用电传操纵系统。中国航空工业开始关注电传操纵系统并花大量时间汲取外国技术以及编辑软件。最终 Q—6使用了高度自动化的电传操纵系统.JH-7也采用了电传操纵系统，这意味着在中国空军引进苏-27之前西安生产的飞机是中国最先进的战机。
除了动力装置外，Q—6需要克服的最大障碍就是逆向研制变后掠机翼结构。在这方面，南昌的工程技术人员遇到了很大问题，因为不能照抄苏联的原始设计。据说中国的首个变后掠机翼结构至少比原准机重12％，因而降低了新机的载弹量、航程及作战半径。
同一时期，由于当时被中国视为最大敌人的苏联在武器装备方面的变化，导致中国军方的需求发生变化。苏联沿中苏边界部署了诸如S-300和9M38 那样的改进型地空导弹。西伯利亚军区密集的防空网早已对中国境内的飞行构成了严重威胁。Q-6据认为比低空飞行的JH-7更易遭到苏联防空部队的打击。
这种新形势要求重新设计，因为用远未完成的Q-6无法满足作战需求。由于此时的JH—7设计与研制工作远超于Q-6，空军和海军将全部注意力转移到西安的大型攻击轰炸机上。两者相比各有优点：JH—7结构上更简单，气动设计更简洁，载弹量更大，作战半径更远；而Q-6机动性更强，单价更低。
有消息说，南昌继续研制变后掠机翼，最终在陆孝彭领导下经过8年努力，于20世纪80年代末期获得突破。看来，南昌设法推出一种新设计方案。该方案采用机头下部进气道和变后掠机翼，动力装置采用单发的WS-6或WS-6G。然而，由于中国航空工业取得的巨大成就，该方案来得太晚，因而无法逃脱被抛弃的命运。随着JH-7的成功试飞，Q-6所有研制工作就结束了。

PLAAF 60

2009-11-11T19:02:00.000-08:00

http://space.tv.cctv.com/video/VIDE1257865483614886

Chinese 5th

2009-11-09T14:34:00.000-08:00

He tells the interviewer that under the estimation of present R&D progress the Chinese 5th generation fighter will be delivered to PLA Air Force and enter service in next 8-10 years (before 2010).
http://www.china-defense-mashup.com/?p=5416

Qiangji-5J

2009-11-05T11:58:00.001-08:00

Q-5 it not sexy it gets the job done close air support

200-ton large aircraft by the end of the largest military appearance

2009-11-05T10:42:00.000-08:00

200吨级最大军用大飞机年底亮相

http://www.sina.com.cn 2009年11月05日14:00 法制晚报

　　200吨级最大军用大飞机年底亮相

　　研发、生产制造过程全部由我国独立完成民用大飞机也在生产中

　　本报讯（记者张颖川）中国的大飞机有了最新进展，中国空军军用200吨级大飞机实体年底将在西飞亮相。这将是中国最大的军用大飞机。

　　今天上午，在中国航空工业集团成立一周年的媒体日上，记者了解到上述信息。

　　11月6日是中国航空工业集团成立一周年纪念日。今天上午9时许，记者在媒体日上了解到，中国的大飞机生产有最新进展，军用、民用大飞机均在生产中。

　　中航集团飞机公司胡晓峰总经理向记者透露，中国空军军用200吨级大飞机具体实物飞机将在年底亮相，这款飞机从研发、生产制造过程全部由中航工业西飞公司独立完成。而由中航承担中国民用航空大飞机80吨级的C919飞机零部件也在加紧生产中，将如期交付中国商飞集团。

　　记者同时获悉，由中航工业自发研制的L15“猎鹰”高级教练机将首次走出国门，参加11月份举办的迪拜航展。L15猎鹰高级教练机将在航展上进行飞行表演，与国外教练机进行竞争，主打国际教练机市场。

　　目前，已经有不少国家的空军派出飞行员来我国进行试飞体验，中航预计将会赢得不少订单。

200-ton large aircraft by the end of the largest military appearance
200-ton large aircraft by the end of the largest military appearance
http://www.sina.com.cn 2009 Nian 11 Yue 05 Ri 14:00 Legal Evening News

200-ton large aircraft by the end of the largest military appearance

R & D, production and manufacturing process by our independent completion of all the major civilian aircraft and also the production of

(Reporter Zhang Yingchuan) China's large aircraft have the latest developments, the Chinese Air Force military aircraft and 200-ton large entities by the end of flight debut in the West. This will be the largest of China's largest military aircraft.

This morning, at the China Aviation Industry Group, the first anniversary of the establishment of the media day, the reporter learned that the above information.

November 6 is the China Aviation Industry Group, the establishment of an anniversary. 9 o'clock this morning, the reporter learned in the media day, China's large aircraft, production of the latest developments, military, civilian aircraft are in large production.

CNAC aircraft, Hu Xiaofeng, general manager of the company told reporters, the Chinese Air Force military aircraft and 200-ton large aircraft will be at the end of a specific physical appearance, this aircraft, from R & D, production and manufacturing process all the Xi'an Aircraft Industry Company Central Air independently. The Civil Aviation of China Central Air bear large 80-ton C919 aircraft, aircraft parts are also stepping up production, will be delivered to China as scheduled commercial flight group.

The reporters also learned that spontaneously developed by the Central Air Industrial L15 "Falcon" advanced trainer aircraft will be the first to go abroad to participate in Dubai Air Show held in November. L15 Falcon advanced trainer aircraft flying in the air show performances, to compete with foreign trainer, main international trainer aircraft market.

At present, many countries have sent pilots to the Air Force carried out test flight of China's experience in the aircraft is expected to win substantial orders.

China Reform Monitor No. 397, July 20, 2001
American Foreign Policy Council, Washington, D.C.

China successfully tests submarine-launched MIRV missiles;
PLA warns it will destroy US aircraft, ships in Taiwan Strait

Editor: Al Santoli

July 2

Three "094" class Chinese nuclear-powered missile submarines simultaneously launched Julang [Huge wave] 21A ballistic missiles each from the South China Sea, East China Sea and Yellow Sea, all accurately hitting their targets in the Taklimakan Desert [in Xinjiang province] 5,000 kilometers away, reports the PRC-owned Hong Kong Tai Yang Pao. The June 28 exercise, code-named "Modern 1," coincided with a bombing exercise by the PLA Air Force Third Division, using new Russian-made SU-30MKK fighter bombers. The exercises were monitored by Jiang Zemin, Zhu Rongji, Hu Jingtao and Defense Chief Chi Haotian from the PLA headquarters.

A submarine-based Julang ballistic missile can be equipped with 7 or 8 independently targeted reentry warheads, with an accuracy radius of 15 meters. Chinese officials boast they are more accurate than similar American-made missiles. By 2005, China intends to mount Julang 21A missiles on six nuclear powered submarines, each submarine carrying 12 such-missiles. The PLA will also equip strategic highways and railroad locomotives with medium- and long-range [Dongfeng-3A and Dongfeng-25A] ICBMs. The article cites an inaccurate US Defense Department estimate made in March 2001, that the Julang 21A missiles would not be available to the PLA until 2005, at the earliest. PLA sources claim that China's successful test on June 28 and Russia's successful PS-18 ICBM launch on June 27 may well be counterbalance against potential US nuclear missile defense systems.

July 8

The US Navy's recent military exchange with the Chinese Navy, "teaching the Chinese military to sweep naval mines disables one of our most important strategic tactics, endangering Korea, Japan, Taiwan, the Philippines and the US Navy," Don Jones writes to the Washington Times. "The navy seems to have forgotten the impact naval mine warfare had on Japan in 1944 and 1945. One of China's biggest vulnerabilities is its Pacific Coast -- China's primary military and economic door to the rest of the world. A [US] mine barrage might be the only thing able to protect our naval forces from the devastating effects of Chinese supersonic anti-ship missiles."

July 9

The Chinese military has warned that in forthcoming PLA military exercises on Dongshan Island, the PLA "will reserve the right to resolutely intercept or drive away foreign or Taiwan aircraft or warships conducting reconnaissance. If incoming aircraft or warships refuse to heed the warning, the PLA will open fire to bring them down or sink them," reports the Hong Kong Wen Wei Po, citing an article in the July issue of Guoji Zhanwang, published by the Shanghai International Issues Research Institute.

The PLA combined-forces military exercise intends to practice seizing islands in the Taiwan Strait. This is the first time that the Nanjing Theater and Guangzhou Theater, East China Sea Fleet and South China Sea Fleet will "join hands in conducting a combined war drill against Taiwan." The Second Army Artillery missile forces and state-of-the-art aerial refueling IL-76 transport airplanes and Qian-8 II fighters will join the live-fire exercise.

Copyright © 2002, American Foreign Policy Council.
China wants to buy Ukraine's An-70 military air transport
Published: Dec. 2, 2008 at 11:57 AM
By ANDREI CHANG

HONG KONG, Dec. 2 (UPI) -- Ukraine and China have been engaged in negotiations on the joint design of a large military transport aircraft, according to sources in Ukraine's Antonov Aircraft Co. The agreement was expected to be signed this month, with the aircraft project to begin soon afterward.

According to a source in the Ukrainian military industry, the basic design concept of the aircraft already has been finalized. The Chinese military transport aircraft will adopt different design concepts and technologies than the Antonov An-70 transport aircraft designed by the former Soviet republic of Ukraine and the Russian Federation, the source said, and will be powered by four jet engines. Additional technical details of the transport aircraft are to be finalized after the signing.

In recent years the People's Republic of China has greatly reinforced its strategic military ties with Ukraine in a variety of areas, but this is the two countries' first collaboration in developing a large aircraft. A source from the Russian aviation industry told United Press International that China did not ask for Russian assistance on this project, suggesting that China is shifting its design cooperation away from Russia and toward Ukraine. It also indicates that the new aircraft will be an upgrade of the Antonov An-70 air transport rather than a duplication of it.

China expressed keen interest in the Antonov An-70 air transport as early as the mid-1990s, when the aircraft was undergoing flight tests in Russia and Ukraine. The aircraft did not get off to an auspicious start, however. The first Antonov An-70 prototype was tested in Kiev, Ukraine, in December 1994, but the same plane crashed the following year. The second prototype was damaged in an accident at Omsk, Russia, in 2001.

In 2002 Russia and Ukraine agreed to each take a 50-percent stake in the project, and two more prototypes were manufactured. But by April 2006, following the Orange Revolution in Ukraine, Russia decided to withdraw from the project.

The Antonov An-70 air transport is still being tested. The Ukrainian air force appears to be the only buyer, having announced its intent to procure five of the An-70 aircraft. China's decision to design its own large military transport aircraft on the foundation of the Antonov An-70 technologies is apparently intended to take advantage of the extensive testing the aircraft already has undergone, to save research and development time.

The Antonov company source has confirmed the Chinese military transport aircraft will not be fitted with the Antonov An-70's D-27 engine, though it did not disclose what type of engine will be used. The D-27 engine has an output thrust power of 14,000 horsepower, maximum payload of 47 tons and a flight range of 4,050 miles with a payload of 20 tons.

China recently imported 240 D-30 KP-2 engines from Russia to use in upgrading its own, home-produced H-6K bombers. It is unlikely that this engine would be used for the military transport plane, however. Russia is already replacing some of the D-30 KP-2 engines on its Ilyushin Il-76 air-lifter with upgraded D-30 KP-3 or PS-90 engines. The D-30 KP-2 does not meet Europe's latest noise control standards, so the Ilyushin Il-76 military air transport powered by these engines are not allowed to land at European airports.

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china holp the DPRK Air Force

2009-11-05T10:21:00.000-08:00

34 delegations to attend international forum on peace and development

(Source: China Military Online) 2009-11-04

　　On the morning of November 3, an air force delegation from the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) led by Major General Kim Kwang-su (right), deputy commander of the air force of the DPRK, arrived in Beijing to attend the International Forum on Peace and Development sponsored by the Air Force of the People’s Liberation Army (PLAAF). Major General Li Shaomin (left), assistant to chief of staff of the PLAAF, greeted Kim Kwang-su at the airport.(Photo by Fei Boyu)

　　On the morning of November 3, an air force delegation headed by Major General Kim Kwang-su, deputy commander of the air force of the DPRK, arrived in Beijing to attend the International Forum on Peace and Development sponsored by the Air Force of the People's Liberation Army (PLAAF). From November 3 to 6, 2009, the delegation will be joined by its counterparts from 34 countries, including Pakistan, Japan, Brazil, the United States, Russia and others, to mark the 60th anniversary of the founding of the PLAAF.

　　According to Senior Colonel Xin Guo, deputy director of the General Office of the Headquarters of the PLAAF, the air force delegations from 34 countries have confirmed that they will attend the upcoming forum which is expected to have around 300-attendess from home and abroad including 23 air force commanders or chiefs of staff, and air force leaders from 23 countries will speak at the forum.

　　Senior Colonel Xin Guo further noted that General Xu Qiliang, member of the Central Military Commission (CMC) and commander of the PLAAF, would deliver the keynote speech and the concluding speech to solemnly put forward the “5 propositions”, namely, building a new concept of airspace security, promoting exchanges and mutual trust, jointly developing norms and orders for the conduct in airspace, performing peace missions and sharing air force culture and honor.

　　It’s the first time in the history of the PLAAF to hold an international forum attended by air force leaders of a multiple of countries. The forum is intended to serve as a platform of military diplomacy, advocate the concept of “harmony in airspace” and display the “open, confident and cooperative” image of the PLAAF. Moreover, the forum represents a significant move of the Chinese government and the military to actively promote the buildup of a harmonious world by upholding the concept of “Peace, Development and Cooperation”.

　　It’s said that the PLAAF will also hold bilateral meetings with the international air force delegations at the forum. After the forum, the Chinese side will organize the air force delegations to fly to a Shandong-based aviation division of the PLAAF to watch the training flight and static display of the JH-7A aircraft and visit Qufu, the hometown of Confucius.

　　By Fei Boyu

PLA Air Force threat

2009-11-05T10:12:00.000-08:00

PLA Air Force forms own weapon and equipment system

(Source: China Military Online) 2009-11-05

　　According to Wang Mingliang, a military expert with the Air Force Command College of the Chinese People’s Liberation Army (PLA), in the early days of the founding of the PLA Air Force, nearly all aircraft and equipment were bought from foreign countries. For instance, when it came to the early years of 1980s, major countries in the world began to use third-generation aircraft, but the PLA Air Force at that time, with only a small proportion of second-generation fighters, still took the first-generation J-6 fighters as its main players.

　　In the face of the great challenge brought forth by the new military change in the world, the PLA Air Force initiated its information construction by centering on the objective of “winning information-based war and building an information-based force”.

　　Presently, the weapons and equipment construction of the PLA Air Force has again kept up with the pace of the rapid development of the weapons and equipment of the air forces of major developed countries. The weapons and equipment of the PLA Air Force have preliminarily realized the transition from mainly defensive to both defensive and offensive.

　　Wang Mingliang held that the most proud leapfrog of the weapons and equipment construction of the PLA Air Force is the development from introduction of foreign weapons and equipment to the independent research and development of weapons and equipment. The categories of homemade weapons and equipment such as J-10 and J-11B fighters, JH-7A fighter bombers, early warning aircraft and new-type ground-air missiles are expanding quickly. These home-made weapons and equipment are approaching or reaching the world advanced level.

　　Especially, the successful development of J-10 fighter makes China one of the few countries which can independently develop the third-generation aircraft. Therefore, the PLA Air Force has for the first time come up to the world forefront by having a good command of the advanced equipment based on independent research and development.

　　After 60 years of development, the PLA Air Force has now basically formed a weapon and equipment system which is mainly composed of the third-generation aircraft and homemade weapons and equipment,is featured with precision and based on network.

CV

2009-11-03T17:46:00.001-08:00

LPD threat

2009-11-03T17:27:00.000-08:00

Amphibious landing ship

　　The "Kunlunshan" ship with a hull number of 998 is an amphibious dock landing ship. With a total length of 210 m, a maximal width of 28 m and a normal displacement of 18,500 tons, it is the surface combat ship with the biggest tonnage in China at present. The service of this ship symbolizes the great enhancement of the PLA Navy in projecting amphibious combat strength to the medium and long distance sea areas. Hundreds of marines from the marine corps of the PLA Navy will board on this ship in this maritime parade.

Missile speedboat

　　
The new-type missile speedboat

　　A new-type missile speedboat that is equipped with advanced missile and anti-electromagnetic interference system has evoked the extensive concerns of domestic and foreign military experts since its début in 2004. Although small in size, it is characterized in fast speed, strong firepower and excellent stealth capability. It has become a trump card in resisting against the enemy's threat in coastal waters.

Submarine formation

　　
The new-type home-made submarine

　　Chinese nuclear submarine will be a highlight in the maritime parade. A new-type home-made submarine formation will be on display besides the nuclear submarine in this parade. Relevant military experts said that the underwater noise of the new-type submarine was greatly reduced for the adoption of a multiple of advanced designs.

Surface ships

　　
The "Lanzhou" missile destroyer

　　Among the new generation of home-made destroyers attending the maritime parade, the "Lanzhou" missile destroyer with a hull number of 170 is the latest one in China. The construction of the destroyer started at the Shanghai Jiangnan Shipyard in August 2001. It was launched in April 2003, left the shipyard in August 2005 and enlisted in the array of the PLA Navy formally in September 2005.

Heavy-lift helicopters: Z-10 ??? or Z-14???

2009-11-03T10:25:00.000-08:00

his is the Google translation to Xinhui's Post # 33, above: CDF
Heavy-lift helicopters: the next battlefield aerial "Hercules"
China's military network Published: 2009-05-11 09:47:44

Loaded with tanks

Air hovering

Hoisting bulldozers
Editor's Note

May 12, 2009, the first anniversary of earthquake in Wenchuan. Learn from its mistakes, recalled a year ago Wenchuan earthquake relief operation, I believe that many people clearly remember such a tense scene: Tang Shan barrier lake water in an emergency, and temporary loan from Russia two meters -26 heavy helicopter significant skill at the time of distress , lifting bulldozers, excavators, forklifts and other equipment more than 60 large dams that, in order to eliminate the barrier lake crisis Tangjiahe Hill made a contribution. For a time, heavy-lift helicopters -26 meters become the eyes of the "stars" of equipment, won the "giant" world.

A year later, heavy-lift helicopters has become the focus of attention again. Not long ago, the Russian News Agency said: China and Russia are to discuss matters relating to the joint development of heavy-lift helicopters. To this end, the reporter to connect the first time researcher at the Institute of the General Staff Zhang and the army, people's attention on the hot topics of heavy-lift helicopters to carry out an all-round reading.

Dialogue of experts: and Zhang, a researcher at the Institute of the General Staff Headquarters army, lieutenant colonel, the Chinese member of popular science writers, popular science writer, a member of the military defense, Army Aviation has long been engaged in the protection of field equipment and tactical and technical research, with a "combat use of Army Aviation Study "," the helicopter in modern warfare "and" Vertical Limit - Contemporary纵谈military helicopters "and other monographs.

Q: Wenchuan earthquake in the dawn of the first anniversary, it will look once again into the heavy-lift helicopters -26 meters. Can you briefly explain to readers the definition of heavy-lift helicopters it?

A: At present, the helicopter in accordance with the standards of our national military usually divided into: Small, light, medium, large and heavy-duty 5 types. Maximum take-off weight of a small helicopter in the following two tons, a maximum takeoff weight of light helicopters in the 2-4 tons maximum take-off weight of medium-sized helicopter in the 4-10 tons maximum take-off weight of large helicopters in the 10-20 tons, the largest heavy-lift helicopters to take off more than 20 tons of weight.

Refers to the so-called heavy-lift helicopters to take off weight of more than 20 tons of helicopter. Because the helicopter is mainly used for heavy transport, has also been said that heavy transport helicopters. A typical heavy transport helicopter was -26 meters in Russia, it is the heavy transport helicopter in the "Big Brother."

Q: as a heavy-lift helicopters in the "Big Brother", -26 m in the end how much "effort"?

A: -26 meters in the former Soviet Union Design Bureau Miri heavy transport helicopter developed by NATO to its nickname called "halo", which is the world's largest transport helicopter load.

At present, the -26 m apart from the helicopter in service in Russia, the CIS is also used in other countries. Malaysia, Peru, South Korea, India and other countries to order the -26 meters, the aircraft has also been chosen the United Nations peacekeeping force.

-26 Meters is a monster, and its captain 40.03 meters, 8.15 meters height, tail rotor diameter 7.61 meters, composed by the eight blades. Design in the world single-rotor helicopter, its rotor blades is the largest. We know that the helicopter lift from the blades have a high-speed rotation, which is that it can "force out million already," one of the key device.

-26 M in the cargo hold at the rear of the fuselage, can be loaded with more than 20 tons of the total weight of the tanks, infantry fighting vehicles, self-propelled howitzers, armored reconnaissance vehicle, such as baggage; can accommodate 80 fully armed soldiers, 60 stretchers and placed 3 health care workers, which is equivalent to the famous C-130 "Hercules" transport plane load capacity of the air is worthy of the name "Hercules."

Q: -26 m so "divine power", its also extremely strong momentum, right?

A: this is the case. It is equipped with 2 Turboshaft each Turboshaft 8500 kilowatts of power, which is equivalent to the general power万吨轮host vessel, we can see the power of the strong. At present, the world has such a strong country Aeroengine only Russian.

Engine power as a result of -26 m, and take-off weight, and has created a world record number of flights. February 3, 1982, a wave in the Soviet Union莫斯科夫纳airports, -26 m鲁巴夫by the driver,特洛夫, Al non-Do not Love and karaoke plus, respectively, driving, flying 10 tons of load to 6500 meters high , to fly 15 tons of load to 5600 meters high, 20 tons of load to fly to more than 4.6 thousand meters high, 25 tons of load to fly to more than 4.1 thousand meters high, have created the helicopter to climb a high load of world records. Especially non-pilots Al Love driving -26 m to 2,000 m high altitude climbing, the load as high as more than 50 tons, far exceeding the design of the aircraft maximum take-off weight.

Q: Apart from -26 meters, the world heavy-lift helicopters what family members?

A: At present, the heavy-lift helicopters are not the family, the world produced a total of more than 2000 aircraft, including CH-47 "Chinook" helicopter production of the largest number of more than 1000. As of now, m -26 heavy helicopters, only the production of 300.

The number from the equipment point of view, the world is equipped with the largest number of light helicopters, followed by medium-sized helicopters, heavy-lift helicopters in the helicopter at least a member of the family. But it is a great unique role in the transport helicopters play an important role in, the family is the backbone of transport helicopters.

Today, development and production of heavy-duty transport helicopter is primarily the United States and Russia, and its model is: CH-47 "Chinook", CH-53 "Sea Stallion", V-22 "Osprey", m -6 "hook" -10 m "Huck" and so on.

Q: heavy-lift helicopters in the wars and in non-military areas which play a major role?

A: The heavy-lift helicopters has good flight performance and enormous capacity, in a wide range of military applications. Modern battlefield, it is not only used for the transport of all types of military equipment, weapons and ammunition, carrying various types of tanks, armored, transport of medium-range missiles, anti-chemical air disinfection units, emergency strategies, such as airborne and air-landing; also be used in hospital operations and operating room, emergency ambulance to the wounded; also used electronic jamming, electronic countermeasures, such as for.

The Gulf War, the U.S. 101st air assault division deployed 40 CH-47 "Chinook" heavy helicopters and 60 UH-60 "Black Hawk" transport helicopter, a code-named "Cobra" of the motor action, quickly 2 mobile operators and a large number of weapons and ammunition and carrying supplies to Iraq 80 kilometers in depth, and opened up a surface area of 150 square kilometers of forward operating base, cut off hundreds of thousands of Iraqi troops south of the escape route.

Second Chechen War, mobilized m -26 heavy helicopters frequently, often on the battlefield so low over the flight, the night also voted to send troops, equipment transportation and protection. From September 23, 1999 to March 31, 2000, -26 m on the helicopter flight reached an average of 6 hours, for a large number of Russian military operations, equipment, and materials delivery, quick drive down a great deal of strength. In the rescue helicopter made an emergency landing, the meter is -26 Shenwei Daxian, will not be able to repair in situ of the helicopter hanging up quickly by air to the rear-area support bases repair, damage to the helicopter so that greatly shorten repair time.

Similarly, heavy-lift helicopters, as in non-military areas play a decisive role, to be completed by lifting a large object, forest fire prevention, pipeline and lifted the erection, installation of transmission lines, medical first aid, humanitarian relief, refugee evacuation missions. In the face of major natural disasters, heavy-lift helicopters are doing so well.

The Soviet Union in 1986 the Chernobyl nuclear accident, -26 m on the sides of heavy helicopters. At that time, the Soviet Union dispatched more than -26 m heavy-lift helicopters from the air delivery of the boron dilution of the radioactive dust will be the overall nuclear power plant canopy.

December 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami disaster, countries involved in disaster relief for 77 military helicopters, there are nine weight of 20 tons maximum take-off of the CH-47 "Chinook" helicopters, 4 maximum take-off weight of 30 tons of the MH-53 " Dragon "heavy-lift helicopters.

In the United States in August 2005 in New Orleans "Katrina" hurricane disaster, the U.S. military dispatched 372 helicopters involved in relief, including a large number of CH-47 "Chinook" heavy-duty helicopters, the flight just a week, thousands of sorties, dropping tens of thousands of relief supplies, rescued more than 30,000.

Q: will the next generation heavy-lift helicopters, what direction?

Answer: From the development trend, a number of military power in the world pay more attention to the speed of transport helicopters and effective load. Related technologies in order to break through the bottleneck, the world aviation experts brains.

At present the world is a more mature heavy rotary-wing aircraft the United States, which both helicopter and fixed-wing aircraft of the advantages of technology is considered a revolutionary change in the helicopter. The United States has a joint heavy rotary-wing aircraft after 2020 as one of the priorities of the three major equipment.

According to foreign reports, Russia plans to invite, including China, multinational cooperation in the development and production of m -46 heavy transport helicopters.

The EU shares the view that the heavy-lift helicopters are the core of the new rapid-response component. May 2004, the European helicopter companies have begun research on heavy-duty helicopter program, known as "heavy-duty transport helicopter" (HTH), plans to launch in 2020. Not long ago, France and Germany announced the joint development of a new generation of heavy transport helicopters, 4-5 years is expected to fill the U.S. CH-53 or the European NH-90 and A-400M military transport plane of the blank between.

Q: At present, China's heavy-lift helicopters to the development of a step which the development of several technology related?

A: Since the founding of new China, with the rapid development of aviation technology, China's helicopter industry has made brilliant achievements, has reached the top level of the developing countries. However, compared with developed countries in the world, we are still technically in a number of key there is a clear gap.

Development of the development of heavy transport helicopter, it is necessary to break through several technical clearance following: First, advanced technology rotor systems, helicopter rotor is a key component as well as helicopters, "force pulling million jin" key. At present, China must first master the advanced technology of the rotor system, designed and manufactured in their own achieve a breakthrough; II is an advanced engine and transmission technology, the current engine and transmission in China is relatively backward technology, the core component of the needs of independent innovation; Third, advanced the overall technology, we are now in the overall layout of the helicopter, and optimize the design, considering aerodynamic, reliability, comfort, etc., with the world advanced level is not small; IV is an advanced process technology, the current configuration in the new China , new materials, new technology and industrial technology, such as vibration noise to be further improved.

At present, we should seize the United States, Russia and the European plans to develop a new generation of heavy-duty helicopters, the opportunity to do a good job in the top-level planning, the full argument - is the introduction of foreign existing models, or with foreign countries to jointly develop a new generation of heavy-duty transport helicopter, or on its own independent research, to find out the direction for the best solution to China's national conditions and technical routes.

Load as the world's largest helicopter, -26 m maximum load of 20 tons, which is equivalent to the famous C-130 "Hercules" transport aircraft load capacity.

Yun-8 C-type

2009-11-02T21:38:00.000-08:00

Yun-8 C-type machine kicked off the training ground modification
http://china-defense.blogspot.com/2009/11/more-y-8c-ordered-by-plaaf.html

October 27, 2009

In recent days, a period of 52 days of the Air Force transport plane C-8 modified the training ground officially kicked off.

Modifications to participate in the training ground troops are shipped eight new aircraft users, trainees mostly new recruits, training, how effective will have a direct bearing on the delivery of the unit to maintain the effectiveness of the use. Therefore, the higher authorities and corporate leaders attach great importance to the training, has organized a special meeting to study the deployment of related matters. Marketing for the new students are more weak technological base, a larger aircraft technical status changes, etc., to formulate a scientific plan, revised teaching materials, carefully selected trainers, conducted a well-prepared and well arranged.

The training hours of theoretical training, aircraft and crew with a teaching internship in three stages.

运八C型机地勤改装培训拉开帷幕

2009年10月27日

　　近日，为期52天的空军运八C型机地勤改装培训正式拉开帷幕。

　　参加地勤改装培训的部队是运八飞机的新用户，参训人员大部分为新学员，培训效果如何将直接影响飞机交付部队后的使用维护效能。因此，上级机关和公司领导对此次培训十分重视，多次组织召开专题会议，研究部署相关事宜。市场部针对新学员较多、技术基础薄弱、飞机技术状态更改较大等情况，制定科学计划，重新修订教材，精心挑选教员，进行了充分准备和周密安排。

　　此次培训分理论培训、机上实习和机务带教三个阶段进行。

two-year compulsory service.

2009-11-02T14:48:00.000-08:00

China's annual military recruitment favors college graduates(

(Source: Xinhua) 2009-11-02

　　BEIJING, Nov. 1 (Xinhua) -- China's armed forces started its annual nationwide recruitment on Sunday, and college graduates are preferred candidates for the People's Liberation Army (PLA) 's two-year compulsory service.

　　According to a mandate jointly issued by the State Council and the Central Military Commission, the recruitment this year has new favored targets: graduates who finished their four-year or three year college studies in June.

　　The PLA and other branches of the country's armed forces used to rely heavily on senior high schools to supplement their new recruits. The new strategy has been expected to improve the military structure in terms of the education level for a better performance in dealing with modern warfare.

　　Recruiting offices in Beijing and Shanghai require applicants to have a senior high school degree or above.

　　The PLA usually recruits men aged 18 to 20 and women aged 18 or19, but the age limit this year has been raised to 24 for those with bachelor degrees.

　　Most of college students in China take part in month-long military trainings on campus or in military bases, usually in their first month of campus life.

　　China's State Council revised the government's recruitment regulations in September 2001 to enlist college students for the first time in a pilot scheme. More than 2,000 students were recruited that year.

china threat in to space

2009-11-02T14:37:00.000-08:00

China's PLA eyes future in space, air: air force commander

(Source: Xinhua) 2009-11-02

　　BEIJING, Nov. 1 (Xinhua) -- China will develop an air force with integrated capabilities for both offensive and defensive operations in space as well as in air, the People's Liberation Army (PLA) Air Force Commander Xu Qiliang said Sunday.

　　Calling militarization in the space and in air "a threat to the mankind," Xu said China must develop a strong force in the two arenas in order to face challenges of that threat.

　　"Only power could protect peace," the 59-year-old air force commander said in an interview with Xinhua, 10 days ahead of 60th anniversary of the founding of the PLA air force.

　　Superiority in space and in air would mean, to a certain extent, superiority over the land and the oceans, Xu said.

　　"As the air force of a peace-loving country, we must forge our swords and shields in order to protect peace," he said.

　　According to Xu, not only major air force powers in the world were currently eyeing space and air superiority, some developing countries were also changing their military strategies to gain upper ground in the two arenas.

　　A country without adequate power would have no say when faced with challenges posed by the militarization in the space and air, he said.

　　The PLA air force would improve its detection and early warning, air striking, anti-missile air defense, strategic delivery capabilities in order to effectively protect China's interests and help maintain regional and world peace, Xu said.

　　Xu meanwhile stressed that the PLA air force was peace-oriented.

　　"The Chinese people is a peace-loving people, and China is a responsible developing country which upholds a national defense policy that is defensive in nature," he said.

　　A powerful PLA air force would protect China's sovereignty, safety and territorial integrity, and would play a major part in maintaining regional stability and world peace, he said.

　　"The PLA air force will pose no threat to any other country," Xu said.

　　This year marks the 60th founding anniversary of the People's Republic of China. Its naval force was founded on April 23, 1949, and its air force on Nov. 11 that year.

　　Previous report said the PLA air force would put its most advanced warplanes on display in the suburbs of Beijing in November, to mark its 60th founding anniversary.

　　All the aircraft to be exhibited, including Kongjing-2000 Airborne Early Warning and Control (AEWC) aircraft, J-11 fighters,H-6 bomber jets, and HQ-9 surface-to-air missiles, were made by China.

　　Most of them were already included in the aircraft fly past during the National Day military parade on Oct. 1 this year in Beijing.

　　In addition to aircraft display, an international military forum themed "harmonious skies" would also be held in Beijing later this month.

　　More than 300 senior air force officers from China and more than 30 other countries are expected to attend the forum to mark the PLA air force's 60th anniversary

　　"The PLA air force will continue to deepen exchanges and cooperation with its foreign counterparts on an opener, more transparent, confident and practical basis," said Xu Qiliang.

惊喜：中国LFC-16战斗机首飞成功!

2009-11-01T06:53:00.001-08:00

惊喜：中国LFC-16战斗机首飞成功!

送交者: 三好学生 2009年10月29日20:42:47 于 [世界军事论坛] 发送悄悄话

2004年珠海航展结束后，一些网上的统计得出了一个出人意料的事实：最吸引网友眼球的即不是叱咤蓝天的SU-27战斗机，也不是漂亮轻巧的L-15高级教练机，而是贵航展台上外观怪异的LFC-16高敏捷性战斗机模型。

　　事实上不光是中国网友对它感兴趣，即便是国外媒体，对这架飞机也表现出了一定的兴趣，美国《航空周刊与航天技术》杂志对它的评价是：“令人迷惑的模型”。

　　是的，这架飞机不但外形让人迷惑、编号让人迷惑，连它的身世、用途都是一串令人迷惑的问题。那么，让我们走近这架飞机并回顾历史，共同揭开这些迷题。

　　根据贵航的官方解释，LFC-16代表“轻型(Light)战斗机(Fighter)中国(China)-16”，16为贵航的内部编号。这架战斗机是贵航集团与民间飞机设计公司“超翼”公司合作，以“山鹰”高级教练机的机体为基础，采用侧板鸭式布局技术设计而成的轻型高机动战斗机方案。这个战斗机方案的特点是：低价格、高机动，安装了较为先进的电子设备，属于超级格斗型廉价机种，同时具备对地攻击能力。

LFC-16:全球机动性第一的战斗机

　上届航展引起广大爱好者及专业人士注意的侧板鸭式布局战斗机CY-1（超翼一型），在今次航展以LFC-16的名字再度亮相。

　　值得注意的是这种飞机采用了中国人所独创的侧板鸭式气动布局、随动侧鳍等专利技术；如该机采用的一系列新颖的气动技术，包括了机身侧板+鸭式气动布局、随动侧鳍、可控涡流等。通过应用这些技术，可提高飞机的操纵性和稳定性，甚至使其达到螺旋桨飞机的水平，同时机动性也将大大提高。据称，该机如果研制成功，将可能成为机动性全球第一的战斗机。另外研制这架飞机的费用来自民间风险投资资金，可以说开创了中国战斗机研制历史上的先河。

　　LFC-16采用的机身侧板相当独特，其位置略低于鸭翼平面，宽度很大。估计其作用是在大仰角下产生强大涡流，与鸭翼涡流耦合，在机翼上诱导出高升力。有助于改善飞机的起降性能和盘旋能力。飞机操纵性和稳定性的改善，主要依赖对涡流的主动控制和随动侧鳍的偏转配合，使得飞机可以在没有采用电传操纵及推力矢量控制技术的情况下，仍能保持大迎角稳定性和较好的操纵性。也许LFC-16真正有价值的还是它秘而不宣的涡流控制技术。这将对未来新型战机格斗能力的提升具有重要意义。

LFC-16技术数据：

　　机长：14.08米

　　翼展：8.32米

　　机高：5.03米

　　发动机推力：7000kg

　　正常起飞重量：8500kg

　　起飞滑跑距离：300-400米

　　着陆滑跑距离：400-500米

　　最大速度：M1.6-1.8

　　最大瞬时盘旋角度：30度/秒

　　最大外挂重量：3000kg

Gulf of Aden

2009-10-31T10:48:00.000-07:00

Chinese new naval flotilla sets sail for Gulf of Aden while merchant vessel still held by pirates

www.chinaview.cn 2009-10-30 22:43:30

Family members wave good-bye to their loved ones of the fourth Chinese naval flotilla that was deployed to the Gulf of Aden and waters off the coast of Somalia to protect merchant vessels against rampant pirates in Zhejiang October 30, 2009. (Xinhua Photo)
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ZHOUSHAN, Zhejiang Province, Oct. 30 (Xinhua) -- A new Chinese naval flotilla was deployed to the Gulf of Aden and waters off the coast of Somalia on Friday to protect merchant vessels against rampant pirates that still hold a Chinese ship for ransom.

The flotilla of the People's Liberation Army (PLA) Navy has been the fourth task force of its kind that China has sent to the region since the end of last year.

Missile frigates FFG-525 Ma'anshan and FFG-526 Wenzhou will relieve the FFG-529 Zhoushan and FFG-530 Xuzhou from the PLA Navy's third flotilla which have patrolled the area since June.

The new warships will join Qiandaohu, a supply ship, which has been on duty in the region for about three months. The fourth flotilla will have a crew of more than 700, including a special force unit and two ship-borne helicopters.

They would actively take part in international humanitarian rescue missions, said Liu Xiaojiang, the Navy's political commissar.

Crew members line on board before they leave for the Gulf of Aden and waters off the coast of Somalia to protect merchant vessels against rampant pirates as the fourth Chinese naval flotilla on Somali mission from Zhejiang, October 30, 2009. (Xinhua Photo)
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A Chinese coal-carrying vessel "De Xin Hai" with 25 crew members on board was kidnapped by pirates about 1,000 sea miles away from the patrolling area of Chinese warships in the Indian Ocean.

So far all the 25 crew members have been identified as Chinese citizens by the shipping company they worked for. The Ministry of Transport is working on the release of the ship.

It is not immediately known whether the new naval task force will bear a rescue mission for "De Xin Hai", but the two Chinese frigates currently patrolling the area have intensified the frequency of surveillance by shipborne helicopters, skiffs and the special force unit for merchant vessels passing by.

China made an unprecedented move by sending three warships to the Gulf on Dec. 26 last year in the first overseas escort mission for merchant vessels.

The PLA Navy warships have escorted hundreds of domestic and foreign vessels since the first flotilla arrived in the region.

The fourth Chinese naval flotilla leaves for the Gulf of Aden and waters off the coast of Somalia to protect merchant vessels against rampant pirates from Zhejiang, October 30, 2009. (Xinhua Photo)

New-type submarine patrols in deep sea

2009-10-25T21:55:00.000-07:00

(Source: PLA Daily) 2009-10-23
　　No.330 submarine of a submarine flotilla of the East China Sea Fleet (ECSF) of the PLA Navy frequented the vast territorial seas in recent years. It has successfully accomplished dozens of major tasks such as equipment acceptance, test and long voyage and is dubbed as a “pioneer” of the new-type submarine of the PLA Navy.

　　No.330 submarine is a new generation submarine independently developed and produced by China. And it has such advantages as low noise, long underwater sailing time and advanced power as well as weapon and equipment system.

　　The reporters experienced a maritime exercise in a sea area not long ago. New-type submarine combat group with No.330 submarine as the leader concealed, broke through the blockade of the destroyer formation and anti-submarine military strength in the air and entered the attack position by adopting new combat method. “Direction and speed of the target are ascertained, a type of torpedo in 3# pipe gets ready to release!” As soon as the order of the captain was released, the torpedo left the pipe. Several minutes later, the torpedo hit the target accurately. This exercise symbolized that a new generation submarine of the PLA Navy has generated battle effectiveness.

　　By Qian Xiaohu and Fang Lihua

China threat UAVs and UCAVs

2009-10-14T20:14:00.000-07:00

The Dark Sword - an ambitious Chinese UCAV concept. (defpro.com)

Chinese researchers break through the mysteries of UAVs and UCAVs

06:45 GMT, October 14, 2009 defpro.com | Larry Dickerson, senior unmanned systems analyst for Forecast International, recently stated that the international demand for unmanned aircraft is rapidly growing, with the United States continuing to be the key driver of this trend. According to Dickerson, U.S.-based companies will account for more than 60 per cent of the market's value. However, western European countries and Israel are keeping up with the pace and spawning domestic development of such systems, which in some cases could already achieve more or less significant export successes (particularly Israel) with their industrial solutions. With respect to the obvious boom of unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) development and export programmes in western countries, China, as much as Russia, still lag somewhat behind.

Catching up with world-leading standards

Nevertheless, the gap is quickly closing as the military’s requirement for state-of-the-art reconnaissance UAVs is becoming increasingly important in both countries. However, the activities are principally still focused on analysing (and often enough copying) already existing and fielded systems, such as the United States’ Global Hawk, Predator and Reaper as well as Israel’s Harpy and Heron. Completely domestic and unprecedented solutions emerge in only very few cases, of which many are too ambitious to make it into series production, let alone introduction into service.

In the case of China, the effort to increasingly use unmanned systems, as well as the capability to domestically develop and produce such aircraft, is publicly and proudly demonstrated, as could recently be seen on the occasion of the 60th anniversary celebration of the People's Republic of China. A total of ten short- and mid-range tactical reconnaissance UAVs mounted on their launching rail on the back of a truck, took part in the National Day parade (see http://www.defpro.com/news/details/10219/). “The ten UAVs of three different models have been [provided] to the PLA's special forces to carry out various reconnaissance missions,” Wang Baorong, captain of the UAV formation, told the state-run Xinhua press agency on that occasion.

According to the assessment of Professor Tan Kaijia, a weaponry expert with the PLA's National Defense University, this latest display shows that “China has made substantial progress in intelligent control systems, precise measuring-controlling systems and computer information processing for military uses.” Even more far-reaching concepts, such as the “Dark Sword” or the “Xianglong”, prove this assessment to be true, as the focus and the development is quickly going beyond small propeller-driven tactical UAVs towards high-altitude, long-endurance (HALE) UAVs and unmanned combat air vehicles (UCAV). The recent spotting of two probable HALE UAVs in front of their hangars at a Chinese air base suggests that such a system is already (near-to) operational.

Still many challenges ahead

However, as Andrei Chang, a Chinese military analyst with the Kanwa Information Centre in Toronto emphasised, it still is puzzling for what reason “the plethora of UAV models on display at Zhuhai do not go into production.” China is having difficulty mastering the technical complexity of operating UAVs in real time, he recently told Defence News. Chang suggests that many of the companies and institutions do not have an actual prototype and are simply looking for a foreign investor for their concept.

In an interview in early 2007 published by sina.com.cn, Tu Jida, chief designer of the Aviation Industries of China (AVIC), said that UCAVs are still at an early development stage in China and current efforts may lead to a successful aircraft system in approximately ten years. He further emphasised that for any such effort, China will be on its own and will have to “rely on its own strength and self-reliance.” The interview also left the impression that China is still working on the development of more secure and resistant control and communication links for the operation of UAVs to prevent enemies from interfering with the control of UAVs and the transmission of reconnaissance information.

Although the extension of China’s military satellite network allows the use of HALE UAVs over long ranges and in operations abroad, China is fully aware of dangers and the importance of satellite communications in modern UAVs. “Without military satellites, the commanders sitting in the United States could not operate their Predator UAVs, which are thousands of miles away on the other side of the globe,” Prof. Chen Hong of the Chinese Air Force's Command College correctly observed. Further statements published by Xinhua (see http://www.defpro.com/news/details/10187/) acknowledge that China’s push in all fields of defence technology proves that the country is prepared to show strength in the air as well as in space and will make sure its networks will be working when their antagonists’ resources are down.

Major systems and concepts

Apart from the “Harpy” UAV sold to China by Israel Aerospace Industries (IAI) in 1994, China has indigenously developed and manufactured a number of unmanned systems during the past 30 to 40 years, often based on western – primarily US-built – UAV and UCAV concepts. A row of transformations of formerly manned aircraft, such as the Ba-5 (based on the J-5, a MiG-17 copy) and the Jian-7 (based on the MiG-21), for use as target drones, as well as the development of smaller target drones such as the Ba-2, Ba-9 (many more types have been produced), provided China with enough experience to develop remotely controlled and later pre-programmed and autonomously flying systems.

China also has a number of man-portable and -launchable mini-UAVs (such as the ASN-15), which are generally propeller-driven models for short-range tactical reconnaissance of ground troops. The following list of systems focuses on larger reconnaissance and combat concepts and – not least due to the lack of reliable information – does not claim to be complete (for instance, you may miss the formerly important ASN-104/105 and ChangKong-1 or a newer concept called “Combat Eagle”, which strongly recalls the X-45 and nEUROn UCAVs). However, it offers a condensed overview on past, present and future Chinese UAV and UCAV concepts, as well as on the often-foreign technological sources.

Reconnaissance Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAV)

• WuZhen-5 (also ChangHong-1)
The WZ-5, in particular, which has been developed on the basis of the U.S. AQM-34N Firebee, will have provided China with the required technical background to take the next step in UAV technology development. After a number of these jet-powered reconnaissance UAVs had been shot down by the PLA in the 1960s, and at least one could be recovered for reverse-engineering, the Beijing Institute of Aeronautics (BIA; now Beijing University of Aeronautics & Astronautics, BUAA) began the development of a reconnaissance UAV based on the AQM-34N. The concept, consisting of the airframe, the optical camera sensor-suite, the turbojet engine and the ground station, resulted in two prototypes completed by 1972 and two in 1976. After achieving design certification in 1978, nine such systems were fielded by the People’s Liberation Army Air Force (PLAAF) as of 1981.

After having been successfully used for reconnaissance missions in the 1980s, the BUAA is believed to have developed an improved version, designated WZ-5A, which provided greater accuracy due to a GPS and inertial navigation system. The WZ-5 was air-launched at altitudes between 4,000 and 5,000 metres and would then climb to its operational altitude of 17,500 metres, where it may fly at up to 800km/h. It was originally launched by a modified Tu-4 Bull bomber, and later by the Y-8E (An-12 Cub copy) turboprop transport aircraft. Due to its lack of a real-time data link, its endurance of merely 3 hours and its limitation to day-time optical reconnaissance, the system can no longer keep up anymore with modern solutions. Without a real-time link and control, it must stay on its pre-programmed flight path, disregarding changing tactical situations or enemy air-defences.

• Xianglong (“Sour Dragon”, Chengdu)
As one of the more recent concepts, the “Xianglong” of the Chengdu Aircraft Corporation (CAC) was first unveiled at the 2006 Zhuhai air show. Its dimensions, jet engine and intake arrangement and wing shape very much recall the US RQ-4 Global Hawk and suggest that this UAV will also be used for high-altitude, long-endurance (HALE) reconnaissance missions. In fact, it is reported to fly at altitudes of up to 18,000 metres (approx. 59,000 ft), which is slightly less than the ceiling of the Global Hawk. According to unnamed sources, the aircraft already completed high-speed taxiing tests in late 2008 and was scheduled to have its maiden flight in early 2009.

The intake and engine, located on top of the fuselage at the rear between the V-shaped tail wings, are much smaller than those of the Global Hawk. However, according to Chinese media reports, it is believed to fly slightly faster than the RQ-4, reaching speeds of about 750km/h and ranges up to 7.000 kilometres. With a reported take-off weight of 7,500kg and a mission payload of 650kg, it is lighter than the RQ-4 and can carry less weight (RQ-4B max. weight: 14.640kg; payload: 1.360kg). Due to its comparably limited range, it is supposed to exclusively operate in the Asia and Pacific region.

• WuZhen-2000 (also WZ-9, Guizhou Aviation Industry Group)
Just as the Xianglong, the WZ-2000’s design seems to have been taken from the U.S. Global Hawk, with V-shaped tail wings and a single WS-11 turbofan on top of the rear fuselage. However, the WZ-2000 is smaller (length 7.5m, wingspan 9.8m) and has slightly aft swept wings, as well as obvious radar cross-section reduction features, including a flat bottom surface. Being an older – but nevertheless stealthy – reconnaissance UAV concept (1999) than the Xianglong, the WZ-2000 is reported to having accomplished its maiden flight in December 2003 and an onboard remote sensing system test in August 2004.

Although the aircraft has smaller dimensions, it is intended to fly at a service ceiling of 18,000 metres with a reported maximum speed of 800km/h for a total endurance of only 3 hours. The 80 kg mission payload reportedly contains a thermal imaging camera and a synthetic aperture radar. Reconnaissance data is transmitted via a satellite communications antenna in the nose bulge.

• ASN-206 / ASN-207 (Xi'an ASN Technology Group Company)
The ASN-206 is one of the earlier advanced tactical UAV programmes and one of the few that has been successfully introduced into service with the PLA. It is a lightweight, short-range, tactical multi-purpose UAV developed by Xi'an ASN Technology Group Company in 1994 and produced in series starting in 1996. According to unconfirmed sources, the Israeli company Tadiran Spectralink Ltd. has been involved in the development process. It carries various mission payloads and can, therefore, be used in a multitude of operations including day/night aerial reconnaissance, electronic warfare and countermeasures (EW/ECM), battlefield surveillance, border patrols and nuclear radiation sampling.

Powered by a HS-700 piston engine, the ASN-206 is a twin-tail braced UAV which is launched with the help of an accessory rocket from a 6x6 truck and is operated by a digital flight control and management system. The aircraft marks an important step in China’s UAV development as it provides real-time reconnaissance information, while older UAV models had to be recovered in order to access the collected data.

The ASN-207, of which four systems headed the UAV formation at the National Day Parade in early October, is an improved version of the ASN-206. It significantly surpasses the AN-206’s capabilities, reportedly providing double the endurance time and mission payload with a maximum range of 600km. It can easily be distinguished due to its mushroom-shape antenna mounted at the front of the aircraft, which receives flight control commands from the ground station.

Attack Drones / Unmanned Combat Air Vehicles (UCAV)

• Harpy (IAI)
The Harpy, built by Israel Aerospace Industries (IAI), was another technology source for China’s own development efforts. The procurement of an unknown number of these attack UAVs in 1994 created quite a stir in U.S.-Israeli diplomatic relations, leading to a crisis of confidence between the two countries. This only happened in 2004 when the Chinese Harpy’s were sent back to Israel for an upgrade and after it was discovered that the PLA used Harpies during a military exercise. The Bush administration subsequently urged Israel to halt all arms-transfers to China.

The Harpy (which since has been further developed: see http://www.defpro.com/daily/details/415/) is not a typical UAV but, rather, a weapons system called “loitering munition”. The propeller-driven aircraft is launched from a ground vehicle or surface warship and can loiter for some time above the mission area to locate and identify a suitable high-value target. Its sensor collects valuable information until the Harpy attacks and destroys its target by crashing into it and detonating its 32 kg (70 lb) high-explosive warhead. It was specifically developed to detect, track and destroy radar emitters, such as enemy radar and SAM emplacements, in all weather conditions during day or night.

• Yi-long (Chengdu)
Another design by the Chengdu Aircraft Corporation appears to be a copy of the U.S. MQ-1 Predator, yet without inverted but, rather, upright V-shaped tail wings. The aircraft is driven by a small tail propeller. It carries a small pivotable sensor suit almost beneath the centre of the slender fuselage. The model displayed at the 2008 Zhuhai air show did not feature pylons to carry weapons, however, design concepts of this aircraft were presented with one pylon on each wing, arranged in the same fashion as on the Predator, to carry light missiles.

• CH-3 (China Aerospace Science and Technology Corp.)
The CH-3 is a medium-range long-endurance (MALE) UCAV model presented at the 2008 Zhuhai show which, due to its complexity, still appears to be far from becoming a reality. The aircraft has a canard airframe design with the tailplane ahead of the main wing. Still propeller-driven, the aircraft carries a large sensor suite underneath the fuselage at the level of the main wings’ root. According to the model, the aircraft is designed to carry two air-to-ground missiles, such as the AR-1 air-surface missile.

• Anjian (“Dark Sword”, Shenyang)
The “Dark Sword” is an unmanned combat air vehicle (UCAV) concept which was displayed as a model at the 2006 Zhuhai air show. It is obviously designed for high manoeuvrability at supersonic speeds, having a flat, triangular shape with an additional large wing area and swing canards, hinting at China’s J-10 multi-role combat aircraft (which itself strongly resembles jets such as the Eurofighter, Rafale and Gripen). Its large intake underneath the fuselage implies high speed, agility and angle-of-attack, further suggesting that the aircraft will be powered by a turbofan.

At the Zhuhai air show, a staff member called the aircraft the “future of Chinese unmanned combat aviation”, emphasising its projected ability to evade enemy radar and to engage in air-to-air combat.

http://www.defpro.com/daily/details/424/

china XXJ PS BS for xinhui

2009-10-11T19:52:00.000-07:00

Chinese Carrier AWACS

2009-10-08T18:30:00.000-07:00

Chinese Carrier AWACS

October 8, 2009: China is equipping its 21 ton, twin engine, Y-7 transport with a phased array radar similar to that used on the larger KJ200 AWACS. The Y-7 is a Chinese copy of the Russian An-24. The Y-7 AWACS would be similar to the U.S. 23 ton E-2 that operates off carriers.

Four years ago, the Chinese Air Force realized it was not happy with its first four IL-76 AWACS (A-50s from Russia, converted to use Chinese KJ2000 radar systems). This led to a smaller system carried in the Chinese made Y8 aircraft (as the KJ200). Eventually, the Chinese began outfitting a Boeing 737-800 airliner as an AWACS aircraft. There may be as many as three of the 737 AWACS. These work much better. The Y-7 is thought to be a version that could operate off China's coming fleet of aircraft carriers. But the Y-7 is also cheaper, and better suited for equipping more air force units with AWACS capability.

The KJ200 entered service two years ago, and export versions sell for about $145 million each. China has had to develop its own phased array radar for it. The Y8 based KJ200 carries a flight crew of five and a mission (AWACS) crew of about a dozen. The aircraft can stay airborne for about seven hours per sortie. The KJ2000 radar has a range of about 300 kilometers, and the computer systems are supposed to be able to handle 5-10 fighters at a time, and keep track of several dozen enemy targets.

Meanwhile, the 54 ton propeller driven Y8 (which is based on the Russian An-12) and Y-7, and 157 ton Il-76 jet, are apparently considered less reliable, and more expensive to maintain, than the twin engine, 79 ton, Boeing 737-800. Chinese airlines (some of them controlled by the Chinese Air Force) have been using the 737-800 since 1999 (a year after this model entered service).

http://www.strategypage.com/htmw/htecm/articles/20091008.aspx

PLA navy Threat!

2009-10-04T09:26:00.000-07:00

http://news.xinhuanet.com/mil/2009-09/29/content_12127703.htm

海军副司令员丁一平资料图片

新华网北京９月２９日电题：海军参阅装备陆海空齐全　来自三大舰队代表五大兵种——海军副司令员丁一平深度解读海军受阅装备新看点

新华社记者陈万军、吴登峰

“海军是战略性、综合性、国际性军种，装备技术复杂，种类多，型号多。”海军副司令员、国庆阅兵联合指挥部副总指挥丁一平２９日接受新华社记者采访时表示，由于受阅兵规模和舰艇不宜在国庆阅兵中展示的限制，海军这次参加国庆阅兵的装备只是海军主战装备的一小部分，但都是我国自行设计建造并首次在国庆阅兵中亮相的新装备。

海军受阅方队都经过精心设计

丁一平说，海军受阅的８个方（梯）队都经过精心设计，反映了现代中国海军的多方面要素——

一是受阅部队来自海军的三大舰队、五大兵种及院校，体现了现代中国海军合成性军种的特色；二是受阅装备都是海军新一代主战装备，是已经形成规模作战能力的装备，体现了现代人民海军的实际作战能力；三是受阅部队都是从海军旅团级单位建制内派出的，体现了现代人民海军整建制部队的实际训练和管理水平；四是受阅海军官兵全部都身着新式军服，所有的装备都喷涂新式海洋迷彩，体现了现代人民海军威武之师、文明之师的崭新形象。

两栖战车作战能力增强

“首次亮相的０５式两栖步战车，是海军陆战队新一代主战装备。”丁一平介绍说，这种步战车信息化程度较高，安装了先进的火控系统、卫星定位系统、夜视系统、一体化通讯系统等，车内作战人员能通过安装在车内的信息终端互通互联。同时，新型两栖步战车火力系统得到全面提升，装备了反坦克导弹、速射炮和高射机枪，能有效应对来自坦克和直升机的威胁。

此外，两栖步战车的动力系统得到全面改进，行进速度、两栖登陆、兵力输送和作战半径等都得到显著提高。新型两栖步战车装备部队后，标志着我海军陆战队主战装备进入世界先进行列。

新型舰空导弹可垂直发射　能拦截各种空中目标

丁一平介绍说，舰空导弹的主要使命是打击来袭的空中目标。这次接受检阅的“海红旗”系列舰空导弹有远程、中程两个型号，主要装备于国产新型导弹驱逐舰、护卫舰等大、中型水面舰艇，可担负舰艇编队的中远程区域防空任务。

新型导弹武器系统进行了模块化设计，采用了先进的垂直发射技术，配备有先进的多功能相控阵雷达，可以全天候、全方位、多批次、多方向拦截来袭的空中目标，特别是具有较强的拦截多目标和超低空、掠海飞行导弹的能力，且反应时间短、抗干扰能力强、毁伤概率高，可根据舰艇的实际情况灵活配置火力。“新型防空导弹的入列，全面提升了海军舰艇的防空作战能力。”丁一平说。

新型反舰导弹全面装备驱护舰、潜艇和战机

反舰导弹主要担负打击敌大中型水面舰船及编队的作战任务，已经全面装备海军的各型舰艇、潜艇和战机，标志着海军的主战兵力已全面具备精确打击能力。参加这次阅兵的“鹰击”系列导弹是中远程反舰导弹，有舰对舰和空对舰两个型号。这两型反舰导弹具有体积小、重量轻、射程远、威力大、突防能力强等特点。

丁一平介绍，与以前的反舰导弹相比，新型反舰导弹信息化、智能化水平有较大提高，可进行全程航路规划，在光测、雷测、遥测、导航定位和安全控制等多个领域获得全面改进，新的网络控制系统和火控系统使得导弹发射反应时间更短、指示目标更快、捕捉目标能力更强、打击效果更好。在近年来的实弹演习中，这个系列导弹在复杂电磁环境下的突防能力和命中精度得到充分检验。新型反舰导弹全面提升了海军的远程精确打击能力。

新型岸舰导弹可实施多方向饱和攻击

丁一平说，机动岸舰导弹部队是人民海军岸防部队的重要组成部分，担负着封锁敌港口、基地及海上航线，打击敌大中型水面舰船的使命任务。参加这次国庆阅兵的岸舰导弹装备，是对海上目标实施远程精确打击的新型武器，射程远、威力大，能有效规避障碍物、禁飞区、敌火力圈等，导弹可超低空掠海飞行，可对敌目标实施多方向饱和攻击。

这型导弹实施机动化部署，可在沿海、平原、丘陵及山地实施快速机动、展开、发射和撤收，并可在野外实施导弹重复装填，短时间内能再次投入战斗，具有数字化程度高、目标指示实时、控制海域广、携弹数量多、机动性能好、持续作战能力强等特点。丁一平表示，近年来，针对武器特点，海军岸导部队已成功摸索出了一套新的战法，使这型武器的作战效能得到充分发挥。

新型“飞豹”战机的作战能力有很大增强

丁一平介绍说，这次参加阅兵的海军航空兵歼击轰炸机梯队被誉为“海空飞豹”。与国庆５０周年阅兵时的“飞豹”战机相比，从外型上看似乎差别不大，但实际上这已是人民海军的新一代多用途全天候超音速歼击轰炸机，与以往的战机有很大的不同。

新型“飞豹”战机装备了先进的综合航电火控系统，武器挂载能力和精确打击能力有大幅提高，可以挂载空舰、空地、空空、反辐射导弹及激光制导炸弹、火箭弹、航空炸弹和电子干扰吊舱等武器设备，具有较强的对海、对地突击能力和空中自卫能力。

参加这次国庆阅兵的海军航空兵空中梯队来自南海舰队航空兵某师的一个建制团，他们通过严格的训练，已具备了远海超低空突防、导弹超视距攻击、复杂电磁环境下作战等作战能力，能够全天候地完成各种作战任务。

海军受阅官兵都是驾驭新装备的顶尖人才

“与先进的武器装备相比，更重要的是海军建设的新一代人才群体。”丁一平说，受阅官兵中不少是来自海军各部队的一线指挥员，不仅有扎实的科学文化基础，而且都经过了实际岗位的磨练，已经成长为海军新一代的优秀带兵人和指挥官。

在阅兵队伍中，既有正在海军院校学习深造的本科生、硕士生和博士生，也有经过严格选拔、培训和岗位锻炼，成为思想政治和专业技术骨干的士官。“还有１９９０年后出生的新一代水兵，他们都是未来海军发展的希望。”丁一平说

Review, fully-equipped representatives of the five branches of the military - Navy, Ding Yiping, deputy commander of the naval review, the depth of interpretation of the new equipment, Aspect

Ding Yiping, deputy commander of the Navy Information image

Xinhua Beijing Xinhua September 29: See naval fleets equipped with air, sea and complete the three representatives from the five branches of the military - Navy, Ding Yiping, deputy commander of the naval review, the depth of interpretation of the new equipment, Aspect

Xinhua News Agency reporter Chen Wanjun, Wu Dengfeng

"The Navy is a strategic, comprehensive, international military services, equipment and technology complexity and variety of multi-models." Navy Deputy Commander, Joint Command, deputy director of the National Day parade Ding Yiping, 29, an interview with Xinhua that as a ships should not be affected by the size and military parade on National Day military parade to display limitations, the Navy's participation in the National Day military parade in the equipment of the Navy only a small part of the main armament, but they are designed and built by China itself and for the first time in his National Day military parade in the appearance of new equipment.

Navy review, teams have been carefully designed side

Ding Yiping, said the Navy review, the eight side (ladder) teams have been carefully designed to reflect the various elements of the modern Chinese navy --

The first review, from the naval forces of the three fleets, five branches and institutions to reflect the combined nature of the modern Chinese navy branches of the characteristics; 2 is subject to a new generation of access equipment are the main equipment of the Navy, which has been operational capability for large-scale equipment, reflects the modern people's actual combat capability of the Navy; 3 is subject to access units are brigade-level units from the Navy sent within the establishment, reflecting the modern People's Navy's entire organizational unit practical training and management; 4 is subject to access Navy officers and men all dressed in new uniforms, all equipment is new marine camouflage spray embodies the modern People's Navy's mighty and civilized army, a new image.

Amphibious combat vehicles to enhance operational capability

"The first appearance of the 05-style amphibious infantry fighting vehicles, is a new generation of main battle equipment, the Marine Corps." Ding Yiping, said that a higher degree of information infantry fighting vehicles, the installation of an advanced fire control systems, satellite positioning systems, night vision systems, integrated communications systems, in-vehicle combat personnel installed in the car through the exchange of information terminals connected. At the same time, new amphibious infantry fighting vehicles and fire system is fully upgraded equipped with anti-tank missiles, Su Shebao and anti-aircraft guns, able to respond effectively to the threat from the tanks and helicopters.

In addition, the amphibious infantry fighting vehicles of the power system is fully improved road speed, amphibious landing, troops transport and combat radius and so on to be significantly enhanced. New type of amphibious infantry fighting vehicles and equipment unit, marks the main equipment of the Marines I have access to the world advanced level.

The new ship-to-air missiles may be able to intercept a variety of vertical launch air target

Ding Yiping, said that the main mission of ship-to-air missiles in the fight against incoming air targets. The acceptance of review of "Red Sea" series of ship-to-air missiles are long-range, medium-range two models, the major equipment in the domestic new missile destroyers, frigates and other large and medium-sized surface ships, could be responsible for vessel formation in the remote area air defense missions.

New type of missile weapon systems, the modular design, using advanced vertical launch technology and are equipped with advanced multi-function phased array radar, can be all-weather, all-round, multi-batch, multi-directional intercept incoming aerial targets, in particular has a strong multi-target interception and super low, sea-skimming missile capabilities, and the short reaction time, anti-interference ability, high kill probability, the actual situation according to the ship's firepower flexible configuration. "The new anti-aircraft missiles into the column, improving overall air combat capability of naval vessels." Ding-ping.

Fully equipped with new anti-ship missile destroyers and convoy ships, submarines and fighter planes

Mainly responsible for anti-ship missile strikes against enemy surface vessels and the formation of large and medium-combat missions, has been fully equipped with various types of naval ships, submarines and fighter planes, marking the Navy's main battle force have been fully equipped precision strike capability. To participate in the parade, "Eagle attack" series of missiles are long-range anti-ship missiles, there are ship-to-ship and air-to-ship two models. These two types of anti-ship missile has a small size, light weight, long-distance, very powerful, penetration ability and so on.

Ding Ping, compared with the previous anti-ship missiles, the new anti-ship missiles, information, intelligence level has improved greatly, it can conduct full route planning, in the optical measurement, mine measurements, remote sensing, navigation, positioning and safety control and many other area fully improved, the new network control systems and missile fire control system allows a shorter reaction time, to indicate targets faster and more capable to capture targets to combat better. The live-fire exercises in recent years, this series of missiles in a complex electromagnetic environment of the penetration ability and accuracy to be fully tested. The new anti-ship missiles, a comprehensive upgrade of the Navy's long-range precision strike capability.

Shore-ship missile can be implemented a new multi-directional saturation attacks

Ding Yiping, said mobile shore-ship missiles, naval coastal defense force is the people an important part of the troops, responsible for the blockade enemy ports, bases and sea routes, the fight against enemy surface vessels and medium-sized missions and tasks. To participate in the National Day parade, shore-ship missiles and equipment are the targets on the sea of new long-range precision strike weapons, long-distance, very powerful, can effectively circumvent the barrier, no-fly zone, the enemy fire rings, etc. can be very low altitude sea-skimming missiles flight, can be the enemy targets in the multi-directional saturation attacks.

This type of missile the implementation of mobile technology deployed in coastal areas, plains, hills and mountain mobilization and launch, launch and uninstall, and can repeat the filling in the field implementation of the missile, a short time into battle again, with a high degree of digitalization, goal directed real-time, control the waters wide, carrying more than the number of shells, motor performance, sustained combat capability and so on. Ding Yiping, said that in recent years for weapons and features, the Navy shore-based missile forces have successfully worked out a new set of tactics to make this type of weapons to be fully operational effectiveness.

A new "Flying Leopard" fighter's combat capabilities greatly enhance the

Ding Yiping, said that the military parade of the Naval Air Force fighter-bomber echelon known as the "sea-air Flying Leopard." With the 50th anniversary of the parade when the "Flying Leopard" fighter than it might seem not very different from the appearance, but in fact this is the people of the Navy's new generation of multipurpose all-weather supersonic fighter-bombers, and fighter planes in the past there are big difference.

A new "Flying Leopard" fighter is equipped with advanced fire control system integrated avionics, weapons capabilities and precision strike capability to mount a substantial raise, you can mount an empty ship, open space, empty, anti-radiation missiles and laser-guided bombs, rockets, Air bombs and electronic jamming pods and other weapons and equipment, with a strong sea, and ground and air assault capability in self-defense capability.

To participate in the National Day military parade in the air echelon of the Navy's air force division from the South China Sea Fleet of an organizational mission through the rigorous training they have been far out at sea with a minimum altitude penetration, the missile attacks over the horizon, complex electromagnetic environment, and other operational combat ability to complete a variety of combat missions around the clock.

Navy officers and men are affected by access top talent to master new equipment

"Compared with the advanced weapons and equipment, more importantly, the Navy's construction of a new generation of groups of talented people." Ding Yiping, said that by reading many of the officers and men from various units of the Navy's front-line commanders, not only a solid foundation of science and culture , and have been the actual status of tempering, has grown for the Navy and the Commander of the new generation of outstanding soldier.

Ranks in the parade, both naval academies are being advanced studies undergraduate, master's and doctoral students, but also undergo a rigorous selection, training and job training to become ideological, political and professional and technical backbone of the non-commissioned officers. "There are a new generation born after 1990, sailors, they are the hope of the future development of the Navy." Ding-ping.

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2009-10-03T23:18:00.000-07:00

XXJ JXX OR JX

2009-10-02T22:07:00.000-07:00

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60th anniversary

2009-10-01T23:09:00.000-07:00

PLA shows off precision striking capabilities at National Day military parade

( Source: Xinhua ) 2009-October-2 07:52

Nuclear missiles are displayed in a parade of the celebrations for the 60th anniversary of the founding of the People's Republic of China, on Chang'an Street in central Beijing, capital of China, Oct. 1, 2009. (Xinhua/Guo Dayue)
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　　BEIJING, Oct.1 (Xinhua) -- The People's Liberation Army (PLA) on Thursday rolled out hordes of missiles from its land, naval and air forces in a grand display of its precision striking capabilities in the heart of Beijing.

The show-off, which included the PLA's HQ-9 and HQ-12 surface-to-air missiles (SAM), is to mark the 60th founding anniversary of the People's Republic of China.

Amid applause and exclamations driven by patriotic pride from the audience, the PLA's air defense missiles from the Nanjing Military Area Command rumbled past the Tian'anmen Square at about 11 a.m.

Naval missiles are displayed in a parade of the celebrations for the 60th anniversary of the founding of the People's Republic of China, on Chang'an Street in central Beijing, capital of China, Oct. 1, 2009. (Xinhua/Li Yong)

　　The PLA land forces was first equipped with air defense missiles in 1981, and has since developed a number of advanced field air defense missiles, as well as radar and intelligence and command systems.

　　These weapons have helped the PLA improve its air defense abilities by perfecting its detection, early warning, and interception systems.

　　Thursday's military parade also featured the PLA navy's newly equipped ship borne air defense missiles, two anti-ship missiles and its newest shore-to-ship missiles.

　　Following the PLA navy's blue camouflage missiles were the HQ-9and the HQ-12 SAM from the PLA Beijing Military Area Command air forces.

　　Both HQ-9 and HQ-12 are the PLA's newly developed medium- and long-range air defense systems and are capable of hitting targets at medium and high altitudes.

　　SAM constitutes the main strength of the PLA's air defense. After decades of development, the PLA has cultivated its capability to strike targets at both high and low altitudes from long as well as medium and close ranges.

　　Also displayed in the military parade were the three types of the PLA's mobile radars, and a formation of the army's communication units.

　　It is the first time for the mobile military radars and the communication units to make their appearance at a national military parade in the history of New China.

　　Thursday's military parade included missiles from the PLA's land, naval and air forces, and would feature those from the Second Artillery Force, the PLA's strategic missile troop.

　　The high-note display of the PLA's missiles and radar systems signaled China's emergence as a power with long-range precision striking capabilities, as missiles have become a key component of the PLA armed forces.

　　"You can feel our country's power from the parade," said a major from the PLA's Beijing Military Area Command who would only identify himself with his surname Liu.

　　"Compared with the last military parade ten years ago, this year's show is much more spectacular and more high-tech," he said.

　　To add to the spectacle, the military parade also included battalions of the PLA's artillery units which thundered past the audience on and at both side of the Tian'anmen rostrum amid applause studded with exclamations.

　　The PLA's Type 05 tracked self-propelled gun-howitzers were the first and the largest guns in service of the PLA to rumble by.

　　Delivered to the PLA at the beginning of this year, the Type 05gun-howitzers are among China's most sophisticated artillery pieces in terms of its automation level, strike range and navigation and fire control systems.

　　The gun-howitzers have also received several batches of foreign guests, in a demonstration of the country's military openness and transparency.

　　The Type 05 gun-howitzers were followed by the Type 07 tracked self-propelled howitzers.

　　The howitzers, from the PLA's Beijing Military Area Command, were equipped in 2007 in large numbers.

　　Artillery units still constitute a major force of the PLA's land forces. With improved levels of self-propulsion as well as long-range and accurate striking capabilities, the PLA's artillery units have made remarkable progress in quick response, mobility, strike range and precision in the past decades.

　　Next came the formations of the PLA's wheeled self-propelled mortar howitzers and the 100mm self-propelled assault guns.

　　The wheeled self-propelled mortar howitzers were from one of the PLA Jinan Military Area Command's regiments formerly known as the Ye Ting Independent Regiment. Ye Ting was a renowned military leader in China, and is seen as one of the founders of the PLA.

　　The 100mm self-propelled assault guns were delivered to the PLA in 2005, and have participated in the Queshan military exercise in2006 and 2007.

　　The deployment of the above two war vehicles signals the PLA artillery forces have developed a variety of strike means and have greatly improved its support capabilities in the battleground.

　　The formations of the PLA's newest rocket launchers and heavy anti-tank missile systems were next to come.

　　Delivered to the PLA in 2005, China's 300mm rocket launchers on display Thursday represented the country's most cutting-edge technologies with improved striking range and precision compared to its predecessors.

　　The 12-tube rocket launchers are the PLA's longest-range rocket launchers within the PLA.

　　After the anti-tank missile systems came the PLA's anti-aircraft artillery systems, a combination of anti-aircraft guns and air defense missiles.

　　The anti-aircraft artillery systems boasts improved quick response and anti-jamming capabilities, strike precision, as well as firepower, making it an effective weapon against targets flying at low altitudes.

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China threat going gulf of aden.

2009-09-20T10:50:00.000-07:00

China Russia naval exercises gulf of aden.

The Chinese Navy and the Russian Aircraft Carriers

2009-09-17T18:44:00.001-07:00

The Chinese Navy and the Russian Aircraft Carriers

By Andrei Pinkov

After a careful review of its development in the past five years, it is not difficult to find that the Chinese navy has a special interest in aircraft carriers. The "Climensau" of France, the "Vayarg" and "Minsk" of Russia, and the light aircraft carrier designed by the Spaniard Bazan were all reported to be related to China. The speculations of the reporters were not groundless because Russia's "Minsk" has "already settled down" in China and the "Vayarg" is reported to arrive in Macao next year.

Due to limited funds, there exists a dispute in the Chinese navy between those who are advocating giving priority to the development of aircraft carriers and those who believe nuclear submarines should claim the first priority. In a special report, the PLA (PLA: People Liberation Army) Liberation Army Daily indicated on March 20, 1996 that the 21st century is a period when the arsenal warships and aircraft carriers and "island of war" share equal importance.

Contrary to those who take a cautious attitude towards the development of aircraft carriers, some young and vigorous naval officials maintain that the warships and aircraft carriers of a higher tonnage should be built.

The construction of aircraft carriers seems to have become the basic mutual understanding of the young and vigorous naval officials. For example, in his special article entitled "the Dream of the Chinese Aircraft Carriers", Captain Cao Xuegui from the No.108 destroyer of "Luda" class, (who graduated from the Boatswain Class of Dalian Naval Vessel College and from the Captain Class of Guangzhou Naval Vessel College) indicates that the necessity of building aircraft carriers lies in the fact that a mobile "battlefield on the sea" is needed in case of war in the South China Sea. In addition, the Taiwanese authorities now engaging in arms expansion and the activities for the independence of Taiwan run rampant. In a special discussion, the captain of frigate No. 537 believes: "it is a top priority to build or import aircraft carriers and this necessity is not man-made, but arises from the realistic situation of war". However, he admits: "it still requires quite a long period of time before this goal can be reached and this goal will hardly be achieved in the near future".

In fact, for a large country, the feasibility study for development of aircraft carriers is far more complex than one can predict. As early as the period of the third 5-year plan, the Soviet Union worked out the "Great plan"("Balishaya Pulogulama" ) on the basis of its "active offshore defense" theory, with an emphasis on the development of a heavy-duty fleet including aircraft carriers. It was because the 2nd World War broke out that this plan was delayed. The active advocate for the "Balishaya Pulogulama" was the then-naval People's Councilor Kutsnietsov. He tried hard to oppose the theory of "small fleet, small wars" proposed by the Orlov naval People's Councilors after 1927. The "Balishaya Pulogulama" advocated the balanced development of large modern warships,a naval air force, and a marine corps. Its theoretical basis is undoubtedly largely similar to that on which the Chinese scholars today propose building the navy for the "active offshore defence". In 1952 after the war, Stalin set the "plan for the construction of a large oceangoing navy". However, after his death, Kruchev's theory of giving priority to the development of rockets and nuclear submarines occupied the dominant position. In that time, aircraft carriers had to temporarily give way. Should people believe that China's current situation is, more or less, similar to the period of the early Kruchev's administration? This is because the theory of prioritizing nuclear submarines holds that nuclear submarines are irreplaceable compared to aircraft carriers. This is because if a situation in which a possible fund shortage were to occur, the nuclear submarine can provide a high capability of seclusion and nuclear deterrence. In addition, without being covered by the long-range underwater forces (nuclear submarines), aircraft carriers may become moving caskets on the water in the epoch of highly developed ship-to-ship missiles. This is also the major concern of those in the Chinese navy who take a cautious attitude toward the development of aircraft carriers.

Even during Kruchev's time, which focused on the development of missiles and nuclear submarines, the Soviet navy never gave up the feasibility study of aircraft carriers and thought that it was just a matter of time to own them. Different from China, the Soviet Union spent a very short period of time on the theoretical feasibility study. In 1962, the Soviet Union officially started to build 14000 ton light-class helicopter carriers, called "Moscow". It served as a material object for the study of its manufacturing techniques, its applications, and its performance in the combined operations. The construction of the Kiev (first one of the "Minsk" class aircraft carriers) was officially started in 1970, while that of the "Vayarg" class was officially started in 1982. The construction of these three types of the aircraft carriers reflects the different operational thinking that S.G. Gorshkov had. Soon after Gorshkov took office in 1958, he decided that the mission of the navy was to apply the "tactical role" which mainly relied on ship-to-ship attacks. It included defending the Soviet strategic nuclear submarines and sea routes as well as destroying the enemy's sea routes. These three tasks had much to do with the anti-submarine mission. Therefore, the most important task of the "Moscow" helicopter carrier was that of an anti-submarine role. Its construction was the victory of those who supported the development of nuclear submarines rather than that of those who were in favor of aircraft carriers.

The "Moscow" aircraft carrier undertook the tactical task of defending the Soviet strategic nuclear submarines and sea routes as well as destroying the sea routes of the enemy. It is worth noting that these strategic tasks are also the new operational thinking the Chinese navy, which had been hoping to reach in recent years under three repeatedly emphasized guiding ideologies. These ideologies are "that the sea is a strategic base", "that Taiwan should be blockaded", and "that the more effective second nuclear counterattack capability should be established".

In the early 1970s, Gorshkov hoped to fly the flags of the Soviet navy in every corner of the five continents and the four oceans in the world. In this case, the operational mission of the Soviet navy shifted from the tactical role that mainly relied on ship-to-ship attack to the "strategic position" which emphasized ship-to-ground attack while taking account of ship-to-ship attack. The new task was to hit the strategic targets and facilities on land and to attack the strategic conglomerations on the sea like an aircraft carrier fleet. "The navy is no longer only used for ship-to-ship attacks, its major use now is to attack the inland strategic strongholds of the enemy from the sea". The attack was carried out mainly by the combined operations of underwater heavy-duty SSBNs, multi-purpose SSGNs, and aircraft carrier fleets. Under the guidance of this strategic thinking, the mission of the "Vayarg" aircraft carrier was to use the large number of its long-range ship-to-ship and ship-to-air missiles that it carried and to cooperate with large missile cruisers, SSGNs, and SSBNs for the purpose of completely destroying the enemy's aircraft carrier fleet and SSGNs. Finally, the "Vayarg" aircraft carrier combat group was used to cover the SSGNs, which launched an attack from an off-shore area to the inland strategic target of the enemy with conventional cruise missiles similar to the SS-N-21. In the meantime, if necessary, the SS-N-19 ship-to-ship missiles which the "Vayarg" aircraft carrier carried had a range of 555 kilometers that could also be launched from the sea to attack vessels berthed at an enemy naval port.

As for the "Minsk" class, which happened to be built at the time between the appearances of both types of aircraft carriers, had two operational principles. It had to have very outstanding characteristics that reflected "transitionally" and in accordance with "the consideration of the two principles". It needed both to fulfill the naval combat and tactical task in the mode of ship-to-ship attacks and to undertake the "strategic applications" of ship-to-ship and ship-to-ground attacks. Therefore, it had the missions of fighting the enemy submarines, attacking the strategic conglomeration of the enemy's aircraft carriers, and hitting the enemy's naval strategic facilities on land as well as its vessels berthed at naval bases. The equipment of the "Minsk" class aircraft carrier fully reflected the above intentions of the Soviet navy in that period of time. This means "equipping the aircraft carrier with anti-submarine missiles (SUW-N-1), long-range anti-warship missiles (SS-N-12 with a range of 555 kilometers), and air defense missiles as long as it is possible to do so. The more fully equipped, the better".

With the strategic operational missions of attacking the enemy's strategic targets (mainly naval bases) on land and its strategic conglomerations at sea, the "Vayarg" aircraft carrier is, to a large extent, not suitable for today's Chinese navy.

First of all, the major target of the Chinese navy is Taiwan. As the Chinese naval base is geographically close to Taiwan, it is not necessary for China to resort to aircraft carriers or large warships on water to attack the inland targets of Taiwan. At the most, considering the involvement of the USA, China needs to use the long-range missiles to launch a ship-to-ship attack on the US aircraft carriers. This is different from the Soviet navy that owned a strong warship fleet. The Chinese navy, due to the lack of the superiority both on water and in the air, may expect that nuclear submarines are more secluded and can be used to attack US aircraft carriers if the Chinese operational thinking deems it necessary to do so. Just because it is weak in its combat effectiveness both on water and in the air, China has never stopped its study to find out how to equip its aircraft carriers with a strong ship-to-ship and ship-to-air missile capability. For example, Captain Cao Xuegui of the No.108 "Luda"-class destroyer, advocates building a 15000 ton light-duty nuclear power-driven aircraft carrier which has a carrying capacity of various combat aircraft and is equipped with ship-to-ship and ship-to-air missiles, fully automatic 100mm and 30mm cannons, advanced C3I and electronic warfare system.

On the basis of the above discussions, in terms of the distribution of fighting tasks, the Chinese navy still prefers to use the "Moscow" and "Minsk" class aircraft carriers for the goal it expects an aircraft carrier to achieve. The main goal of the Chinese navy is to ensure the safety of the navigation channel and its nuclear submarines as well as to destroy the enemy's sea routes while maintaining the anti-submarine task as the priority. In the meantime, the secondary goal also includes accomplishing "appropriately" the strategic task of launching a ship-to-ship attack to eliminate the large fleets of the enemy.

In terms of the distribution of the fighting tasks, the Chinese navy is still inclined to believe that the purpose it determined for the aircraft carriers is more similar to that of the tactical task designed for the "Moscow" and "Minsk" aircraft carriers. These purposes being giving priority to the task of anti-submarine, safeguarding their own navigation channels and nuclear submarines, destroying the enemy's sea routes, and in due course accomplishing the strategic task of launching a ship-to-ship attack in order to wipe out large enemy fleets.

Obviously, as far as the fighting tasks are concerned, not a single one of the three above-mentioned classes of the Soviet aircraft carriers, (i.e. the "Moscow", the "Minsk", and the "Vayarg", can fully and completely meet the combat needs of the Chinese navy. However, the assimilation of the advantages of each of the Soviet aircraft carriers will not only provide a complete understanding of the whole development process, but will also enable the Chinese to follow the train of thought the Soviet designers had in designing all of these three aircraft carriers. The Chinese can make use of these strong points in the development of their own aircraft carriers. This is why China also holds a high expectation for the "Minsk" and the "Vayarg".

The excuse China used for the purchase of the above two aircraft carriers was that they would be for the uses of recreation, disassembly, and waste steel recycling. A careful analysis will show that this excuse was not totally unreasonable. First of all, if these aircraft carriers are used for the purpose of disassembly, they are really of some commercial value as China has been looking for waste steel on the international market. On the other hand, the understanding of how to disassemble them means a more direct experience in how to make aircraft carriers. Furthermore, as the design drawings are required for the disassembly, China can easily request them from Russia and the Ukraine. A company from Macao purchased the "Vayarg" aircraft carrier for only 20 million US dollars. In fact, it takes several million dollars to have a Western ship building company design a new aircraft carrier and provide the relevant technical advice. It is easy to see the benefits from the deal.

In the aspect of "recreation", since the "Minsk" aircraft carrier arrived in Guangdong, the private company that purchased it has attracted a large number of visitors. It is easy to see that at least in appearance, the carrier was not directly purchased by the military. However, it may be the case where the private company spent the money but priority is given to the military research if needed. Normally, the "Minsk" has been used to satisfy the craving for aircraft carriers "fun" in China. This helps increase its commercial value and meet the market tendency of commercialization in the Chinese society. In the meantime, this civilian-military combination also saves military expenditures and helps to reduce the handles by which the "View of China's Threat" is held by some countries. According to the pictures of the "Minsk" aircraft carrier in China, it can be determined that the real condition of this aircraft carrier is much worse than one could imagine. All the combat weapons, the launchers, the electronic equipment, and the power system have been taken away. The aircraft carrier was towed to Guangdong by a tugboat from Korea. Due to the many years of corrosion by sea water, its hull is rusted and its outside structure is seriously damaged. Only the inside structure remains complete. Its military value is, at the most, limited to the on-the-spot study of its basic structure, layout design, and welding techniques, etc.

The news is true that the Chinese military has long been hoping to obtain the design drawings of the "Minsk" aircraft carrier. Remarks from Russian navy sources has proved the news to be true in 1993. At that time, Western military observers once predicted that China hoped to buy the "Minsk" aircraft carrier. Later, it was believed that Korea's purchase of it was nothing but a scheme and that the carrier would be moved to China before long. It is said that Russia's prerequisite for the sales of its design drawings was that China would purchase the scrapped aircraft carrier for a low price. Evidently, it is the design drawings themselves that the Chinese military were really interested in. This is because China needs the help in the aspect of the design concept during the feasibility study of the aircraft carrier. For the same reason, China also contacted the Spanish Bazan Shipyard in February of 1995 about sending the supply of design drawings for the AC200 aircraft carrier to China. In an exclusive interview earlier this year with the business official of the Bazan Shipyard in Malaysia by the author, he was quoted as saying that the talks had ended up with nothing definite.

The Chinese effort to actively look for aircraft carriers and their design drawings on the international market shows that the Chinese navy is further exploring the possibility of developing aircraft carriers on its own. It also shows that China hopes to become a country that can produce small and medium-sized aircraft carriers in order to enter the international aircraft carrier manufacturing market, especially in South-east Asian and South American countries. ( KWIC)

Chinese military aircraft carrier "heart"

2009-09-15T19:47:00.000-07:00

振奋人心：中国军队航母“心脏”即将跳动(2009-09-14 14:08:08)

标签：军事燃气轮机航母航空母舰中国军队

资料图：沈阳一航动力所和一航黎明研制的可作为航母发动机的R0110重型燃气轮机模型。

中国早在02年10月开始研发的R0110重型燃气轮机，已在上个月获得突破性进展。该轮机可用作中型常规航空母舰主动力机组。

报道指出，中国国家科技部副部长曹健林在今年二月二十一日，率领一批专家团，前往渖阳，考察R0110重型燃气轮机的设计和制造状况。

目前，燃机零件已经完成，即将进入装配阶段；试车台各系统也已完成调整。预计今年三月完成整机装配，四月进行点火测试验收。

报道称，研发预算五亿人民币的R0110轮机组，是大陆自主研发的第一台重型燃气轮机，也让大陆成为全球第五个具备重型燃气轮机研发能力的国家。

该轮机的输出功率拥有十五万匹马力，比一万吨级的日本金刚级（神盾）驱逐舰的十万匹马力还大，可作为中型常规航空母舰的主动力来源。

根据去年八月加拿大报道，中国已启动航空母舰建造工程（解放军称为　“特种大型军用船舶”）。当时报道即称，中国已向俄罗斯购买四套“苏恺卅三”舰载战机使用的尾勾。同时，解放军也在确认生产航母系统的厂商。此意味，航母的总体设计、基础供电、发电机组的设计工作，已经完成，即将生产。

去年三月，中国外交部发言人曾证实，大陆正进行有关航母的研发。解放军的一位海军副司令也说，中国将在2012年建造出第一艘航空母舰。

重型燃气轮机是洁净高效发电的重大动力机械装备，微型燃气轮机是分布式供能系统的核心装备。“十五”期间，燃气轮机重大专项设立了重型燃气轮机和微型燃气轮机两个研制项目。沈阳黎明航空发动机集团、哈尔滨东安发动机集团等大型国有企业，联合清华大学、中科院工程热物理所、中国燃气涡轮研究院等科研单位，以产学研合作方式，开展联合攻关。

　　通过重型燃气轮机的研发，初步形成了自主设计和制造重型燃气轮机的能力，带动了材料，先进制造等领域的创新。11万千瓦重型燃气轮机填补了有自主知识产权重型燃气轮机的空白，并具有明确的产业化前景。

　　通过100千瓦级微型燃气轮机的研发，培养了独立研发微型燃气轮机及其热电联供系统关键技术和产品的队伍，使我国成为了掌握微型燃气轮机设计，制造技术并具有成套能力的国家。

　　美国尼米兹级航空母舰的发动机总功率是19.4万千瓦，单论功率来说R0110完全可以作为我国研制的航母的动力。

　　这标志着我国舰用燃气轮机又向前迈了一大步。接下来服役的大型军舰上将有可能装备我们自己研发的燃气轮机，我们的军舰将不用再依靠进口外国的燃气轮机.

: Chinese military aircraft carrier "heart" will beat (2009-09-14 14:08:08)
Tags: Military aircraft carrier, Chinese military gas turbine aircraft carrier

Data Figure: Shenyang, and an aircraft powered by an aircraft developed by the dawn as a heavy-duty gas turbine aircraft engine model R0110.

China as early as in October 2002 began the development of the R0110 heavy-duty gas turbines, has received a breakthrough in the last month. The turbine can be used as active medium-sized conventional aircraft power unit.

Reported that China's State Science and Technology Vice Minister Cao Jianlin February 21 this year, led a group of experts missions to Shenyang, visit R0110 heavy-duty gas turbine design and manufacture of the situation.

At present, gas turbine components has been completed and about to enter the assembly stage; test sets each system has to adjust. Is expected to be completed in March this year, machine assembly, acceptance testing in April to conduct the ignition.

Reported that the R & D budget of 500 million yuan of the R0110 wheel unit is China's first self-developed heavy-duty gas turbines, but also so that the mainland has become the world's fifth with heavy-duty gas turbine research and development capabilities.

The turbine output power has 150,000 horsepower, more than 10000 ton Japanese Diamond level (Aegis) destroyers hundred thousand horsepower is also large and medium-sized conventional aircraft carrier can be used as the active power source.

According to Canada in August last year, reported that China has started construction of an aircraft carrier (People's Liberation Army known as the "special large-scale military vessels"). Reported that at that time that China has purchased four sets of the Russian "Su-Sasan" carrier-based warplanes to use the tail hook. At the same time, the PLA has also confirmed that production of carrier systems vendors. This means that the carrier's overall design, basic electricity, generators of the design work has been completed and ready for production.

Last year, in March, the Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman has confirmed that China is carrying out research and development related to an aircraft carrier. People's Liberation Army deputy commander of a Navy also said that in 2012 China will build a first aircraft carrier.

Heavy-duty gas turbine is a clean and efficient power generation a major power machinery and equipment, micro-gas turbine is the core of a distributed power supply system and equipment. "Tenth Five-Year" period, the establishment of heavy-duty gas turbine gas turbine major projects and micro-gas turbine 2 research project. Shenyang Liming Aero-Engine Group, the Harbin Dongan Engine Group and other large state-owned enterprises, joint Tsinghua University, Chinese Academy of Engineering Thermal Physics, Chinese Academy of gas turbine and other scientific research units to production and research cooperation, joint research.

Through the heavy-duty gas turbine research and development, initially formed a self-designed and manufactured heavy-duty gas turbine capacity, driven materials, advanced manufacturing, and other areas of innovation. 110,000 kilowatts heavy-duty gas turbines have independent intellectual property rights to fill gaps in heavy-duty gas turbines and has a clear prospect of the industry.

Through 100 kW micro-gas turbine research and development, foster an independent R & D micro-gas turbine combined heat and power supply system and its key technologies and products team, so that China has become a master micro-gas turbine design, manufacturing technology and has a complete set of capabilities.

U.S. Nimitz-class aircraft carrier engine total power was 19.4 kilowatts, one-on power for the R0110 can be used as the driving force of China's aircraft carrier developed.

This indicates that China's marine gas turbine a major step forward. The next service will be the possibility of large ships equipped with our own research and development of gas turbines, and our ships will no longer need to rely on imports of foreign gas turbines.

new aircraft static test of XXJ ?????

2009-09-07T15:44:00.000-07:00

At 14:30 on August 6, deputy general manager of China Aviation Industry Gengru light, Project Office Director Lu Jie, director of his party in the strength of Sun Xia-sheng, deputy director and chief designer strong Bao-ping, deputy secretary of Party Committee and other relevant personnel Meng Fanjun accompanied

Before the first flight of a new aircraft static test of the success of the whole machine! ! !

At 14:30 on August 6, deputy general manager of China Aviation Industry Gengru light, Project Office Director Lu Jie, director of his party in the strength of Sun Xia-sheng, deputy director and chief designer strong Bao-ping, deputy secretary of Party Committee and other relevant personnel Meng Fanjun Accompanied by Yaozhou came to the test base, in relation to a first flight before the aircraft static test of the whole machine to conduct on-site inspection and guidance.

Geng, vice president and his entourage first listened to the strength of Sun Xia, director of Health on a certain type of aircraft, static test of the whole machine a work report, the Director Sun Xia-sheng, deputy director and chief Qiang Bao-Ping Shi answered questions in detail. Then, Sunsuo Zhang Geng, vice president and his entourage, accompanied by down to the test site, watched a certain type of aircraft, the last one before the first flight the whole plane static test the entire process. When the test is successful, Geng, vice president and his party, said the three parties involved in the tests and involved in the tests congratulations and posed for pictures.

The aircraft first flight before the full completion of static test aircraft will provide a strong guarantee for its first flight on schedule.

"I still hold partly concealed"

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oogle translated ps China military media is field with disinformation you should take with grain salt.

new comprehensive vertical reference to the Chinese Air Force stealth fighter

The Air Force's main production equipment, research and development unit of the China Aviation Corporation. On July 1, 1999 Aviation Industry Corp in some key enterprises, and institutions based on the formation. The company was set up, a large number of experts on the organization. "before and after the 2020 aviation equipment development strategy" for the scientific proof. And on this basis, in the aviation engines, aerodynamic, fire control of the area in 2020 after 13 professional development goals. And proposed "the generation of improved production, generation development, research generation, exploration generation" of major aviation equipment development, and the adoption of new "four generations" of equipment, Air Force equipment with a view to the future and continuing to lay a solid foundation for development by leaps and bounds.

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China is currently the main production / generation combat aircraft to improve flight : Shen Jian--8B/C/D/F/H. F-11, F-F--11B; CAC Fighter, the F-10, F-10 Fighter / coach; 6-7 West fly-bombers, -7A-bombers, such as the new H-6. Among them, using the F--8B/C/D/F/H integrated fire control system, developed by China itself. WP-13B/F research and equipped with a new engine in China, Mirage -2000-5 and currently have a match with the strength of the Air Force recently, I was more mature. Practical fighter; F -11B the introduction of the Su-27 production technology is based on innovation and development of the national production of the F-11. 1128 SU-27CK aircraft based on the general layout and function of maintaining the same performance, WS-10 engines equipped with a China-made engine, made 1474 a fire-control radar-equipped radar PL-12-made and can be mounted missiles and other weapons. Su -27CK compared with the F-11B aircraft weight, flight performance, life and other basic body unchanged, the development of the plane. The country mainly for the F-11, Air Force weapons Readiness raise rates and reduce its dependence on Russia. The aircraft's maiden flight was on December 6, 2003, commissioned in 2005 stereotypes. Shenyang J-601 are also plans - 11B, based on further development of the F-11 multi-improvement. F-trans models are estimated. F-7E aircraft into flying F-Fighter is further improved, mainly to improve fire control systems equipped with a helmet aiming device. fighting at close range, rising to a new level, in 2004 the troops; F-10 August 2004 was officially troops. The aircraft developed after 20 years, quite a vintage performance, is the Air Force's main fighters before 2020. WS-10 aircraft equipped with one engine, and equipped with 1,473-fire-control radar. The aircraft's fire-control system, developed by China itself is advanced integrated fire control system. The aircraft is fulfilled for the further development of the F-10 Fighter / trainer, was conducted in December 2003; West -7A-bombers have been flying troops and equipment to the Soviet Union over -30MKK2 precision strike capability. WS-9; totally domestically produced aircraft has two further improved in the planning, -7B-bombers. -7B Fighter-bombers used simultaneously fulfilled, and to install navigation / bombing systems, weapon delivery of computer attack radar terrain following radar and radar altimeter, will be developed into a new medium-range supersonic strategic bombers; H-6 is now the new production, its operational efficiency and plans to have with the Russian Tu-26 "Backfire" almost. become the backbone of the Air Force's recent strategic offensive forces.

Second generation : research

China is currently developing a generation of combat aircraft F-13 stealth fighters. F-13 in the "Ninth Five-Year Plan" period establishment began to develop. State upfront investment of 80 billion, 611 are from organizations in manufacturing, which is following the F-10, Another major national organizations to develop special projects. Stealth aircraft use a variety of materials and technology, it head-direction radar cross-sectional area (RCS) reduced to 0.5 m 2. enemy radar detection range it will be halved. Electromagnetic Theory and Applications Institute of the Chinese Academy of Sciences by researchers in the research group of inlet and the F-13 jet engine compressor blade on the surface layer of ferromagnetic radar absorbing materials. One thickness of the coating material for 1.4MM 0.7MM and inlet; The coating material for a 0.5MM ago level low pressure compressor blade. Such measures could make the F-13 inlet 10-15DB; to reduce the reflection of radar stealth, F-13 cockpit has built an improved research staff has developed a plasma deposition processes. listed plasma deposition of metal and polymer materials dissection. Shielding throw in the cockpit, while having no impact on the sunlight to enter. The F-13 is a power device developed by WS-10A 624 engine maximum thrust of 14,000 kilograms, pushing quality over nearly 9 to 7 on the Richter Scale Series engine and vector axisymmetric nozzle. The core components of the engine test was completed in 2004. F-13 prototype was started in 2004 to fly into the general assembly, expected in 2010 2008- service. It will use more advanced integrated avionics system, the fire-control radar for 1475 Active Phased Array Radar. is a fourth-generation fighters with the characteristics of the fourth-generation medium prospective fighters. Standards before it is the fourth-generation fighter, the F-22 and F-35 deal with the threat of weapons.

Third generation : research

20 since the 1990s, world military hegemony, and a fourth generation of fighter bombers, F-22, F-35, B-2 and so on. Fourth-generation fighter which has the following features : ① supersonic flight, the maximum speed is greater than (or equal to) 1.8M. Second, the supersonic cruise missile can fly to access dial-up account : the thread can not be more than high-speed dash ③, ④ post-stall maneuver. ⑤ low altitude required for a long time, ⑥ height required for a long time, ⑦ combat radius, ⑧ vertical short take-off and landing, ⑨ Stealth, which features A fourth-generation fighters have what is impossible, with the increasing cost of the planes. This requires a different tactical options need to adopt some new techniques, different aircraft for different tactical and technical requirements. use this equipment to identify the best benefit-cost ratio system. For example, with research costs, a fourth-generation fighters heavy use of costly, it is impossible to popular equipment, bound to go along with the development of fourth-generation fighter, a medium relatively low-grade, high-end components to match the equipment system. This is now the United States and Russia and other large equipment used by Air Force system. In China, due to the level of economic development is still limited, as the United States did not produce large amounts of funds. comprehensive fourth generation of heavy-duty and medium-fighters and equipment, but our air defense operations, but it also needs a lot of fighter planes. This makes our country unique to the Air Force and the aviation industry of China's national and military equipment of the proposed system with Chinese characteristics : Air Force fighters in the sub-systems that mix of high, low-grade match; ground attack aircraft by far, nearly sub-attack planes. fighter-bombers and strategic bombers; 3 match. In the development of fourth-generation fighters, according to my Air Force aviation industry equipment system through long-term research, upcoming plans, R & D focus on the following aircraft : F-14 heavy fighters, the F-15 fighter medium. F-16 supersonic medium vertical / short take-off and landing fighter, the F-17 multi-purpose fighter light. J-8 fighter-bombers, strategic bombers and bombers -9, -7 strong stealth fighter planes.

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"Profession : heavy fourth-generation F-14 fighter aircraft : F-14, developed by 601. 624 YWH-30-27 developed by the two sets of core components derived WS-17 development of the high-thrust engines. pushed more than 10 quality, the biggest engine thrust 17,500 kg, uses a symmetric-axis thrust-vectoring nozzle, YF-23 shape a bit like aircraft, stealth aircraft better performance RCS 0.15 m 2. Asia is excellent, supersonic aerodynamic performance, can not be prolonged for Afterburner good subsonic and supersonic cruise. supersonic mobile; With strong far, close air combat capability. can bring advanced after launching attacks against various targets in the long-range air-to-air missiles which, Anti-jamming up big off-axis firing angle of the Short Range missiles, high power-to-ground precision guided weapons; High-performance integrated avionics system, the integration of information inside the aircraft and the aircraft. in the most concise form to the pilot states pose information, and give full play to the role of the pilot and flight intelligent support.

2 Ver.2 : F-15 F-15s from the medium : 601 fourth-generation fighters as R & D, 624 YWH-20-13 developed by the two sets of core aircraft engine derived from the medium WS-15 high thrust-weight ratio. hold in esteem than 10 single thrust of 9500 kg.

3 The fourth generation supersonic medium-3 : F-16 : a vertical short take-off and landing F-16 fighter, developed by 4611. Jacques -141 aircraft developed from the Russian aircraft. Using stealth aircraft design with transonic, supersonic cruise capability. OTH can simultaneously attack multiple targets, the enforceability of the land, sea, and ground to a variety of tasks. WS-17 cruise the main engine of a plane, the aircraft will be primarily naval aviation equipment. equipment for the Navy's Amphibious Assault Ship Program or stationed Nansha and Xisha Islands airport, I support Navy and Marine operations.

"4> fourth-generation multi-purpose fighter aircraft : the F-17 light aircraft equipped with a two WS-14 light engines. I was empty, the Navy will substantially decrease fourth-generation fighter aircraft equipment.

＜ 5 ＞ strong : strong -7 -7 stealth attack aircraft developed by China's imminent establishment close support attack plane. adopt stealth design 624 equipment developed by one of the core components derived YWH-30-27 development Xiaohan Road WS-18 than augmented turbofan engine. Maximum Thrust 10000-11000 kg, with a supersonic cruise capability. The aircraft will gradually replace our strong -5.

"6> : J-J-8-8 fighter-bomber is to develop a new generation of fighter-bomber. It made reference to the development of the Russian Su-34, J-11 is based on our own innovation and development. However, the aircraft and Su-34 different is the use of stealth design. The plane to a maximum range of 7,000 km. The 624 engine is being developed by the two core components derived YWH-25-17 development and the promotion of greater than 9 level WS engine thrust. single biggest thrust 14000 kg payload of 10 tons or more.

No. 7 H-9 : H-9 in 95 strategic bombers, the establishment began to research. In the case without aerial refueling aircraft, range of over 8,000 km. air refueling range of more than 12,000 km. 2M aircraft cruising speed, penetration rate will reach more than 4M, payload of 20 tons-40 tons. There stealth aircraft better performance. 624 engine is being developed by the four core components derived YWH-30-27 development of 36,000 pushed more than 10 engines WS-19 level, the biggest thrust of 18,700 kg.

F-14, F-15, F-16, F-17, strong -7, -8-bombers. H-9 will be completed in 2020 to develop and equip our troops, the air equipment has reached the world's advanced level.

China launches new stealth fighter project

By Yihong Chang, JDW Correspondent, Zhuhai

The Shenyang Aircraft Company has been selected to head research and development of a new heavyweight fighter for China's People's Liberation Army Air Force (PLAAF), according to a senior source at the China Aviation Industry Corp I (AVIC I).

China's Shenyang Aircraft Company has overseen the development of several J-X heavyweight fighter concepts. (Source: via Y Chang)

Development of the engines and weapon subsystems for the fourth-generation fighter has been underway for some time, according to the source, who revealed that a number of design concepts have already been created. Wind-tunnel tests of these are about to start. Images of the concepts show a twin-engine aircraft sharing some design traits with Lockheed Martin's stealthy F/A-22 multirole fighter, now undergoing tests with the US Air Force, such as the internal carriage of its weapon systems. The Chinese designs retain a more conventional wing, however, and use a single vertical tail fin.

AVIC I officials told JDW that the new aircraft - tentatively dubbed the J-X and possibly to receive the service designation J-13A - could use the WS10A turbofan engine designed by the Shenyang Liming Motor Company during its development and trials process.

In development for more than a decade, the WS10-series powerplant completed air trials earlier this year with an Su-27SK (NATO reporting name: 'Flanker-B') fighter. The WS10A is scheduled for introduction with the PLAAF's new J-10A fighter, which has yet to be formally unveiled.

Continuing research into advanced control techniques is expected to in time allow the air force to field WS10A-powered J-10A and J-X fighters equipped with thrust-vectoring nozzles offering improved aircraft manoeuvrability.

While AVIC I sources will not speculate when the new fighter might make its first test flight, a debut around the end of the decade could be expected if the project matches the development process for China's J-10A and J-8D projects.

J-15 or J-13????

2009-09-05T17:00:00.001-07:00

China Puts Up a Fighter

2009-09-02T18:15:00.001-07:00

China Puts Up a Fighter
Beijing's fifth-generation military challenge to the U.S

ZHUKOVSKY, Russia—With few exceptions, Beijing rarely says much of substance about its ongoing military build-up or its strategic thinking. But the overriding message from the recent Moscow Airshow and other airshows, plus occasional interviews with Chinese and Russian engineers, is that Beijing is not conceding next-generation air superiority to anyone, least of all the United States.

Exhibit A is Beijing's long-running effort to build a fifth-generation fighter plane equivalent to the U.S. F-22 and F-35. Such planes use extensive stealth and advanced radar and can usually "supercruise," or fly supersonically for extended periods without using fuel-guzzling afterburners. In what may be the only public reference to the program by a Chinese official, the Commander of the People's Liberation Army Navy mentioned their requirement for a fighter capable of "supersonic cruise" during 60th anniversary celebrations in April. Today this can only be achieved by the U.S. F-22A Raptor, the world's only operational fifth-generation fighter.

To be sure, China faces many technical obstacles. Development of advanced engines capable of 15-ton thrust levels is a particularly serious bottleneck. But China's fifth-generation efforts date back to the early 1990s and will start with two heavy fighters from China's two main fighter companies. A Chinese source told me in early 2005 that the Chengdu Aircraft Corporation, famous for developing the fourth-generation J-10 fighter, was considering the development of a medium-weight fifth-generation plane comparable to the F-35. This could mean that Chengdu's fighter will be built in vertical take-off and aircraft carrier versions. In 2006, the competing Shenyang Aircraft Corporation revealed a concept for a single-engine forward-swept-wing fighter that would be highly maneuverable and potentially stealthy. It seems the PLA envisions two levels to its program: a heavy fighter for maintaining air superiority, and a medium-weight plane that's cheaper and more versatile.

Even before China's fifth-generation fighter flies, advances in electronics and engines will enable new "four-plus" generation fighters, like the J-10B that recently began flight testing. These fighters and eventual fifth-generation fighters will pose a more effective challenge to current and future U.S. air forces, and will make obsolete the fourth-generation fighter fleets of Japan, South Korea and Taiwan. The U.S. Navy currently has no program for a fifth-generation fighter as good as the F-22, but instead intends to rely on the slower F-35C, which is optimized for attack missions.

The PLA aims to use these programs as a vehicle for beefing up its research and development capacity to reduce its reliance on Russian and other foreign technologies. A Ukrainian source here disclosed that his company is in discussions with Chengdu-associated institutes on the development of what could become a second fifth-generation engine program for China. But an official with the Sukhoi fighter company, which has sold many planes to China, stated pointedly that they are not helping China with its fifth-generation program. They're cooperating with India instead on New Delhi's own fifth-generation fighter development. Russia's main reason appears to be business; China has not signed a treaty protecting intellectual property. China could be motivated by technological nationalism.

China's moves to go it alone could have several consequences. Beijing's current reliance on Russian technologies effectively gives Moscow a veto over China's sales of its planes to third parties. As Beijing gains expertise designing its own indigenous engines, it will free itself from this constraint, allowing greater latitude to sell advanced fighters for its own aims. The new J-10B may already be slated for Pakistan, advancing the arms race on the Indian subcontinent.

There are worrying signs that the U.S. either does not fully appreciate the consequences of Chinese advanced fourth-generation and fifth-generation fighters entering the market, or is willfully ignoring them. In July, Defense Secretary Robert Gates publicly predicted that by 2020 "nearly 1,100 [combat aircraft in the U.S. Air Force] will be the most advanced fifth-generation F-35s and F-22s. China, by contrast, is projected to have no fifth-generation aircraft by 2020. And by 2025, the gap only widens." Armed with this apparent assessment by the U.S. intelligence community, by the end of July the Obama administration had overruled congressional objections and stopped production of the F-22A at 187 by 2012.

This is a big gamble, and seems like a bad bet in light of China's apparent determination to push forward with its own fifth-generation program. If this bet does go south, it could cost America future air superiority in the Pacific. It could deny a key U.S. ally, Japan, a significant non-nuclear means for deterring Chinese aggression. It could also be bad for the U.S. companies like Lockheed-Martin and Boeing commercially. Washington's inability to offer a fifth-generation "champion" fighter could push South Korea and Japan to turn to French technologies to develop their own fifth-generation programs.

Mr. Gates and the U.S. intelligence community could prove to be correct, but they have so far offered little public data to explain the prediction that has served to justify such a potentially fateful decision. Meanwhile, despite the PLA's lack of meaningful transparency Beijing's own goals are crystal clear. It would be far smarter for the U.S. to prepare for the likelihood that Beijing will develop and build far more than 187 fifth-generation air-superiority fighters.

Chinese Aircraft Carriers

2009-08-28T18:32:00.000-07:00

Introduction of senior professionals:
Xue-Qing Zhang graduated from Chongqing University 65 years, the CPC members, senior engineer.
Participated in 10,000 tons of multi-die forging hydraulic press, 6,000 tons of free forging hydraulic press, 100 tons. M no anvil hammer design.
Is responsible for 15,000 tons of forging hydraulic press, 3-ton free forging hammer, 65000 tons to the forging hydraulic press, 400 tons of twist drill hydraulic extrusion press, 70X4000 three roller coiling machine, "858" device (aircraft carrier catapult), and man-made crystal Fu River and other high-pressure equipment design.
Has engaged in similar acts forging equipment, chemical container strength calculations. 65,000 tons of major projects in which state-level multi-die forging presses, "858" device, was awarded first prize in two re-plant level. Author of "65,000 tons multi-die forging hydraulic press design and experimental study" a book. Won the two re-plant "top-notch talent," the title.

Yao Shi-jie 63, graduated from Chongqing University, CPC members, senior engineer.
Is responsible for national issues, "liquid hammer" technology development work on the subject by the Sichuan Science and Technology Commission and acceptance, has become the basis of two heavy pieces of the Institute of the leading products. Baosteel 28 is responsible for surveying and mapping project design work for the localization of imported equipment, spare parts to make a contribution. Responsible for "oiling-free key connection" issues, was invited to Taiyuan Iron & Steel Society of Mechanical Engineers for research papers, guided 20 roller mill precision keyless connected dismantling, installation work. Kunming Iron and Steel Rolling Mill Plant is responsible for the pavilion 400 strip rolling mill design work, by a user high praise and praise. "Liquid hammer" won two heavy mechanical and electrical equipment, science and technology prize for matching head, "30 tons of tension straightening machine design" and "Panzhihua Iron and Steel Mill 800/850 Rail Beam Design" have been two re-group scientific and technological progress third prize, "Development of ultra-high pressure hand pump" won Fourth Prize in Deyang City, scientific and technological progress. "Development of gas-liquid hammer technology" and "grease-free bond connectivity test summary" won two first-class essays were re-group. Many were re-group two outstanding scientific and technical workers, the title of a model Communist. Deyang Zhigongjixie has served as a member of new product development team captain, received the title of Sichuan Province Zhigongjixie advanced workers. Familiar with the medium and small rolling mill design, grease-free bond connection and gas-liquid hammer technology, performance has been input, "List of senior experts in Sichuan Province" and "China's Century experts" mechanical design system. Publications: "make every effort to engage in the development, relying on science and technology development", "liquid hammer work on the project summary" and "500 mill the profile and direction" and so on.

Chinese Naval Air Force threat

2009-08-20T20:07:00.001-07:00

Ministry of National Defense

2009-08-20T09:48:00.000-07:00

cool more of a certain military district in a certain area of china.

new china Warship ?????

2009-08-18T09:54:00.000-07:00

Chinese Ski Jump Spotted

2009-08-12T13:58:00.000-07:00

August 12, 2009: The wonders of digital photography (on the ground and from commercial satellites) provide evidence that China is testing the use of its Su-30 aircraft and a ski ramp type carrier deck design. China is expected to have an operational carrier soon, and it will be one using a ski ramp (instead of a steam catapult). It was suspected that there was a ski ramp training facility somewhere, now it's been located, in Xian-Yanliang. What's strange about this is the altitude of this airbase; nearly 500 meters (rather than sea level.) Then again, Xian-Yanliang is a windy place, which allows testing of the stationary ski ramp built there, with winds typical of what would be encountered when the carrier turned into the wind for the commencement of aircraft launching operations.

Late last year, China announced that its first class of carrier aviators had begun training at the Dalian Naval Academy. The naval officers will undergo a four year course of instruction to turn them into fighter pilots capable of operating off a carrier. The Russians have warned China that it may take them a decade or more to develop the knowledge and skills needed to efficiently run an aircraft carrier. The Chinese are game, and are slogging forward.

Earlier this year, the Russian aircraft carrier Varyag was renamed the Shi Lang (after the Chinese general who took possession of Taiwan in 1681, the first time China ever paid any attention to the island) and given the pennant number 83. The Chinese have been refurbishing the Varyag, one of the Kuznetsov class that Russia began building in the 1980s, for several years now. It is expected to be ready for sea trials by the end of the year.

The Varyag has been tied up in a Chinese shipyard at Dailan since 2002. While the ship is under guard, it can be seen from a nearby highway. From that vantage point, local military and naval buffs have noted that some kind of work is being done on the ship. The only visible signs of this work are a new paint job (in the gray shade used by the Chinese navy) and ongoing work on the superstructure (particularly the tall island on the flight deck.) Many workers can be seen on the ship, and material is seen going into (new stuff) and out of (old stuff) the ship. The new contracts are believed to be for more equipment for the Varyag, in addition to the non-custom stuff already going into the ship.

Originally the Kuznetsovs were conceived of as 90,000 ton, nuclear powered ships, similar to American carriers (complete with steam catapults). Instead, because of the cost, and the complexity of modern (American style) carriers, the Russians were forced to scale back their goals, and ended up with the 65,000 ton (full load ) ships that lacked steam catapults, and used a ski jump type flight deck instead. Nuclear power was dropped, but the Kuznetsov class was still a formidable design. The thousand foot long carrier normally carries a dozen navalized Su-27s (called Su-33s), 14 Ka-27PL anti-submarine helicopters, two electronic warfare helicopters and two search and rescue helicopters. But the ship can carry up to 36 Su-33s and sixteen helicopters. The ship carries 2,500 tons of aviation fuel, allowing it to generate 500-1,000 aircraft and helicopter sorties. Crew size is 2,500 (or 3,000 with a full aircraft load.) Only two ships of this class exist; the original Kuznetsov, which is in Russian service, and the Varyag. Currently, the Kuznetsov is operating in the Mediterranean.

The Chinese have been in touch with Russian naval construction firms, and may have purchased plans and technology for equipment installed in the Kuznetsov. Some Chinese leaders have quipped about having a carrier by 2010 (this would have to be a refurbished Varyag). Even that would be an ambitious schedule, and the Chinese have been burned before when they tried to build new military technology in a hurry.

New Images Of The Ski Jump Test Facility at Xian Aircraft Company’s Yuanling Airport

2009-08-11T12:22:00.001-07:00

Here are some totally unrelated photos that were taken last week.

U.S. Sentences Three for Military Tech Leaks to China

2009-08-10T12:37:00.000-07:00

U.S. Sentences Three for Military Tech Leaks to China

The U.S. has sentenced three Chinese men to federal prison for attempting to export technology with potential military applications to China, the U.S. Department of Justice said Tuesday.

In separate cases, two of the men were charged with attempting to export thermal-imaging cameras, and a third was charged with illegally exporting hundreds of integrated circuits that could be used in military radar systems, the department said in a statement.

The men, all from Beijing, were given prison terms of between 20 months and five years in rulings handed down starting last week. Their exports to China were illegal without clearance from the U.S. Department of Commerce because the items have both military and non-military uses, the statement said.

In the case of the integrated circuits, prosecutors argued that the defendant was using a front company in the U.S. to ship items to his company in Beijing, it said. A catalog from the man's Beijing company was found to carry pictures of military craft and state a goal of helping "facilitate the building of the national defense of China," the statement said, citing the sentencing brief.

Prosecutors also argued that the man supplied restricted U.S. technology to several Chinese customers, including one linked to a state-owned company that makes missile systems and spacecraft.

The two men in the thermal cameras case were arrested at the Los Angeles airport last year after 10 of the cameras were found in their luggage, either stuffed in their shoes or hidden in their packed clothes. The cameras are contained in two-inch cubes and are sensitive enough to detect heat on an object too small to be seen by the naked eye, the statement said.

The U.S. has imprisoned and fined multiple Chinese nationals over military technology exports to China in recent years. Defendants in those cases have attempted to export technology including fighter jet components and night vision equipment.

Ukraine military hovercraft to equip Chinese navy

2009-08-09T20:46:00.000-07:00

Ukraine military hovercraft to equip Chinese navy

Kiev - China's navy is to purchase four Ukrainian military hovercraft in a 315-million-dollar deal potentially shifting the South China Sea naval balance, the Interfax news agency reported. A shipbuilding firm in Ukraine's Black Sea port Feodosia will construct two Zubr (translation - Bison) class craft, and a second pair of vessels will be built in China under the supervision of Ukrainian technicians.

A Ukrainian government publication listing state contracts confirmed the order without giving its value. Officials at the Morye shipyard in Feodosia declined comment.

The Zubr hovercraft is designed to carry three tanks, 10 armoured personnel carriers, or as many as 500 troops at speeds exceeding 63 knots.

The vessel can due to its larger size operate in rougher seas than smaller hovercraft.

The Russian, Ukrainian, and Greek navies currently operate the Zubr, with a total ten hovercraft produced since 1988.

China's navy currently lacks heavy capacity hovercraft of the Zubr type. The most modern Chinese naval hovercraft in operation, the Jingsah II, has a maximum capacity of 70 troops.

The Zubr hovercraft's capacity to deliver substantial combat forces by water at speeds doubling conventional landing ships would, once in Chinese inventory, complicate defence planning for South China Sea nations particularly Taiwan, according to the report.

Feodosia's Morye shipyard as co-developer of the Zubr hovercraft with St. Peterburg's Almaz naval design bureau technically is banned from selling Zubr's military technologies to a third party, without Almaz management agreement.

China in 2006 was in talks with Almaz on the purchase of six Zubr hovercraft without result.

Management at Ukraine's Morye shipyard, actual production of site of all Zubr-class hovercraft, began talks with Chinese naval representatives in 2008, a naval source told Interfax.

7th Type054A FFG

2009-08-06T20:16:00.000-07:00

China thrsat In Indian

2009-07-28T21:48:00.000-07:00

T-72 tanks moved to remote Sikkim area after China tests Indian defences

Manu Pubby

Posted online: Tuesday , Jul 28, 2009 at 0441 hrs

New Delhi : Chinese moves to test Indian control of the strategic Finger Area in North Sikkim last year have prompted the Army to deploy heavy tanks and armoured personnel carriers in the region and strengthen defensive positions. In fact, the highest gallantry award to a Border Roads Organisation (BRO) personnel was conferred to a dozer operator, Zalim Singh, who cleared a strategic road near Theing village — he was decorated with a Bar to Shaurya Chakra — for a column of advancing tanks.

While the Army brought armoured vehicles to the North Sikkim plateau in the late 1980s, the small detachment has now been replaced by the heavier and more powerful T-72 Main Battle Tanks and modern BMP troop carriers.

Sources said the mobilisation took place after repeated Chinese transgressions last year in the Finger Area, a one kilometre stretch of land in the northern tip of Sikkim that overlooks a valley called the Sora Funnel and is considered a strong defensive position.

The T-72 tanks were inducted after a monumental effort by the BRO to widen roads, construct tracks and strengthen bridges leading to North Sikkim. The heavy tank column was taken up the high plateau partly by road-based carriers.

Sources said that while China too has tanks on its side of the border, they are deployed well inside its territory. “China does not need to deploy tanks on the border because the terrain and roads on its side makes it easy to bring them at short notice. India, on the other hand, has no option but to keep them on the border as it would take days to get the tanks up from the plains,” an expert pointed out.

Besides the tanks, the Army has strengthened other defences in the region, particularly around the Finger Area. Permanent posts have been set up on heights and bunkers have been strengthened. The Army has also increased surveillance capabilities in the region. At least two Long Range Observation Systems which can detect, record and transmit live images of an area under observation, have been set up in the Finger Area.

The strengthening of defences has taken place partly due to the re-induction of the 27 Mountain Division to North Sikkim. The Kalimpong-based Division, responsible for the defence of North Sikkim and the Finger Area, had been moved to Jammu and Kashmir in 2001 during the Op Parakram troop buildup along the Pakistan border.

The Finger Area entered controversy last year after the Chinese increased patrolling and even planned to built a road through it. While the area was always under Indian control, the Army used to send in regular patrols and held only a few traditional defensive positions.

India decided to strengthen defences after increased Chinese transgressions and the discovery last year that the alignment of a new East-West road being built by Beijing would pass thorough the Finger Area. Construction was put to a stop after New Delhi lodged a diplomatic complaint.

J-10B Threat

2009-07-23T11:46:00.000-07:00

J10B superior then F-16 or F-15.

PLA Navy Threat.

2009-07-18T17:17:00.000-07:00

WEAPONS AND SYSTEMS PLAN

china threat

China threat

J 20 the china threat Grow !!!!!!!!!!!!

IM

Carrier L-15 Nanchang Q-6

PLAAF

China's pro-missile navy sinks carriers

pla navy

South China Sea AKA duh ?????????????????

Air Force official: China has world's 'largest deployed' conventional missile force

Photo) German media exposure: China's new 05 tank extraordinary night performance

generation XXJ fighter

H-8 /H-9

China's 'Project 921'- Men in Space

China's 'Project 921'- Men in Space

China says its spaceplane has realized successful trial flight.

Chinese to English translation

PLA's first carrier 'ready by 2012'

640 Project

China’s Anti-Ballistic Missile Threat

PLAAF have a 5 generations

China pledges to advance relations with Djibouti

Chinese 5th generation stealth fighter designed to

missile destroyer Shijiazhuang in Latin America

China, N.Korea pledge to strengthen alliance

improved J-10 5-generation

Report PLAN for OIN.

China threat

Chinese arms sell threat

Nanchang Q-6

PLAAF 60

Chinese 5th

Qiangji-5J

200-ton large aircraft by the end of the largest military appearance

200吨级 最大军用大飞机年底亮相

China successfully tests submarine-launched MIRV missiles; PLA warns it will destroy US aircraft, ships in Taiwan Strait

china holp the DPRK Air Force

PLA Air Force threat

CV

LPD threat

Heavy-lift helicopters: Z-10 ??? or Z-14???

Yun-8 C-type

运八C型机地勤改装培训拉开帷幕

two-year compulsory service.

china threat in to space

惊喜：中国LFC-16战斗机首飞成功!

LFC-16:全球机动性第一的战斗机

Gulf of Aden

New-type submarine patrols in deep sea

China threat UAVs and UCAVs

china XXJ PS BS for xinhui

Chinese Carrier AWACS

Chinese Carrier AWACS

PLA navy Threat!

60

XXJ JXX OR JX

60th anniversary

PLA shows off precision striking capabilities at National Day military parade

( Source: Xinhua ) 2009-October-2 07:52

China threat going gulf of aden.

The Chinese Navy and the Russian Aircraft Carriers

Chinese military aircraft carrier "heart"

new aircraft static test of XXJ ?????

J-15 or J-13????

China Puts Up a Fighter

Chinese Aircraft Carriers

Chinese Naval Air Force threat

Ministry of National Defense

new china Warship ?????

Chinese Ski Jump Spotted

New Images Of The Ski Jump Test Facility at Xian Aircraft Company’s Yuanling Airport

U.S. Sentences Three for Military Tech Leaks to China

Ukraine military hovercraft to equip Chinese navy

7th Type054A FFG

China thrsat In Indian

J-10B Threat

PLA Navy Threat.

200吨级最大军用大飞机年底亮相

China successfully tests submarine-launched MIRV missiles;
PLA warns it will destroy US aircraft, ships in Taiwan Strait