The decision to station the Shandong aircraft carrier, currently under construction in Dalian, in close vicinity of a Chinese nuclear submarine base on Hainan Island in the South China Sea is fully in line with the original purpose of this particular type of ships, military expert Vasily Kashin told Sputnik.
2017-02-04 15:33China continues to make strides in its aircraft carrier program, with a number of milestones achieved in 2016 and looks set to make more in 2017.
2017-02-04 09:54The Washington Free Beacon published an article on January 31, which cited two Pentagon officials that China had a trial launch of intercontinental missiles earlier in January.
2017-02-03 16:24Authorities in Hong Kong will soon release nine Singapore Armed Forces (SAF) armored vehicles that they have impounded and detained by Hong Kong Customs, according to foreign media.
2017-01-25 16:55According to reports, the history books tell us that the Second Sino-Japanese War began in 1937, ended with Japan's defeat by the Allies in 1945, and cost the lives of perhaps 20 million Chinese soldiers and civilians.
2017-01-24 17:08The PLA Navy has accomplished the periodic goal of controlling the first island chain. It will achieve military presence and operations in the second island chain region before 2020.
2017-01-24 16:44Images posted in Chinese online forums in late December 2016 show for the first time a Xian Aircraft Corporation H-6K bomber carrying what appear to be six 250 kg bombs on each of its six under-wing pylons for a total of 36 bombs: a new demonstration of the aircraft's strike capabilities.
2017-01-10 16:23China has developed a formidable domestic arms industry. The HJ-8 antitank missile is an example of an indigenous Chinese design that has seen action across the globe, and had a notable impact on battlefields in Bosnia in the 1990s and Syria today.
2017-01-10 10:50Compare this to China, whose defense spending has surged 12.9 percent per year between 1989 and 2011. Even with the Chinese economy slowing, the defense budget was still expected to increase by 7.9 percent in 2016.
2017-01-10 10:16If the FC-31 succeeds as an export commodity, then it could greatly multiply the risk to U.S. forces in future wars, said the report.
2017-01-05 17:14By all accounts, 2016 was a busy year for China's defense industry as the country continued to carry out its major program aimed at modernizing the People's Liberation Army.
2017-01-02 20:53The US defense budget for 2017 includes a section on the US-Taiwanese military exchange program, which China regards as interference in its domestic affairs.
2017-01-02 21:26Foreign media reported that China's only aircraft carrier sailed out of Chinese waters toward the Pacific Ocean for the first time.
2016-12-28 23:09China's armed forces will carry out secret inspections over the new year holidays, both Western and lunar, to ensure orders against corruption are being followed, Reuters reported on December 22.
2016-12-26 17:18China said on Thursday people should not read too much into last week's incident when a Chinese naval vessel picked up a U.S. underwater drone in the disputed South China Sea.
2016-12-23 11:21China’s secretive H-20 bomber is well on its way to becoming a fully developed next-generation strategic stealth aircraft, but not in the near future.
2016-12-23 10:46The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the People's Republic of China (PRC) announced on December 20 that China had returned the unmanned underwater oceanographic drone to the US Navy, which aroused debates among US media.
2016-12-22 18:27China has offered to provide $14 million worth of small arms and fast boats to the Philippines for free, aiding President Rodrigo Duterte's war on drugs and fighting terrorism, Manila's defense minister said on Tuesday.
2016-12-21 11:29The photographs from the recent exercise also show that the Type 052D destroyers have a potentially very capable underwater sensor suite.
2016-12-21 09:36Though the H-6 could in theory carry a nuclear payload, it’s believed that the PLAAF doesn’t field any nuclear air-launched cruise missiles. This may be because Beijing is oriented towards defensive use of nuclear weapons.
2016-12-19 11:04The Times of UK published a report entitled "China flexes its muscles with aircraft carrier drills" by Jamie Fullerton on its website on December 16.
2016-12-19 17:03China's PLAN commissioned its 28th and 29th Jiangdao-class (Type 056/056A) corvettes at a naval port in Lianyungang in eastern Jiangsu Province on 12 December, according to the China Military Online website.
2016-12-19 11:20There are two other elements of China's soaring sea power that are little covered in the mainstream media, but are increasingly important to China's push for naval power projection: its coast guard and maritime militia.
2016-12-16 17:16The relevant construction, which is reasonable, justified and lawful, is well within China's sovereignty, the Foreign Ministry spokesperson of China once said.
2016-12-16 17:08The TASS on December 14 quoted a source from Russia's system of military-technical cooperation with other countriesas saying that the first batch of four Sukhoi-35 fighter jets will be delivered to China on December 25.
2016-12-16 16:25It has emerged that China recently rejected port entry to a South Korean Naval ship.
2016-12-15 17:02By 2020, China's defense budget will be about four times bigger than the UK's and more than the entire Western European regional defense spend combined.
2016-12-14 17:19Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte said on December 11 that he has decided to accept an arms deal being offered by China under concessional terms, according to a US media report.
2016-12-13 17:06The UK's Jane's Defense Weekly reported that China has developed a complete range of light and medium tracked armored fighting vehicles (AFVs), of which many are being offered on the export market.
2016-12-12 17:20China is preparing to conduct a flight test of a new missile capable of destroying satellites in space, one of Beijing’s most potent asymmetric warfare weapons.
2016-12-12 09:56The attack via Twitter came after a controversial phone call with Tsai Ing-wen on December 2 that had already ruffled feathers in Beijing. Critics worry that Trump's "reckless diplomacy" may lead to China-US confrontation, said CNN on December 5.
2016-12-06 17:28The website of the US bimonthly The National Interest published an article titled China's Mach 6 Monster Air-to-Air Missile Could Make the US Air Force Come in for a 'Crash Landing' on November 28.
2016-12-02 16:10The website of Taiwan's China Times reported on November 29 that with the increase of national strength, protecting overseas interests has become the strategic core of the Chinese mainland.
2016-12-01 17:06China's J-16 fighters have finished the factory test stage and a small batch of them has entered into service of the Chinese Air Force, according to November issue of the Kanwa Defense Review, a Chinese language military affairs magazine.
2016-11-29 17:09General Sergey Shoigu, Minister of Defense of Russian Federation, said that the military cooperation between Russia and China is not directed against other states and does not pose a threat to them.
2016-11-24 16:57The sixth India-China joint training exercise "Exercise Hand in Hand 2016's" opening ceremony took place at the parade ground in Anudh Military Camp in India's western Maharashtra's Pune city on Wednesday.
2016-11-23 17:01Soldiers of the PLA and the Indian Army (IA) kicked off the sixth iteration of an annually held military exercise, dubbed Hand in Hand 2016, in the city of Pune in western India announced on November 16.
2016-11-23 15:38China and the United States wrapped up a three- day humanitarian relief military drill yesterday, looking past simmering tensions over the disputed South China Sea and the deployment of an advanced US anti-missile system in South Korea.
2016-11-21 17:28CNN reported that "the J-20 is the country's counter to the United States' Lockheed Martin F-22 Raptor and F-35 Lightning II in any contest for supremacy of the skies."
2016-11-03 17:39The US has sent guided-missile destroyer USS Decatur to the South China Sea to demonstrate so-called "freedom of navigation" on October 21. China's defense ministry strongly opposed the move and had lodged a protest with the US, according to a report on the website of BBC on October 21.
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