Eyeing the Frontiers– The Logistics Command Academy of The PLA

Jun.23 (Military Report released by “China Military Power Mashup” and written by Hu Yushan)– Smoke drifts over a military airfield where explosions have blasted craters in the runways. Reports arrive one after another at the command office: The air assault fleet of the red army has encountered enemy air defenses. Four helicopters have been destroyed and [...]

Eyeing the Frontiers– The Logistics Command Academy of The PLA

China’s Military Railway Transport

Jun.22 (China Military Story released by China Military Power Mashup and written by Wei Tongbing) — “Food and fodder should go ahead of troops and horses,” says The Art of War, a Chinese military canonical book from more than 2,000 years ago. The Chinese have long been aware of the importance of transport in military [...]

China’s Military Railway Transport

China’s Emergency Military Procurement

Jun.09 (China Military Report released by “China Military Power Mashup” and written by Tong Shenghai) — On Jan. 12, a magnitude-7 earthquake struck the Caribbean nation of Haiti. The procurement branch of the Chinese military’s General Logistics Department immediately mobilized for disaster relief and ordered supply stations to procure supplies. At 2 p.m. on Jan. 15, [...]

China’s Emergency Military Procurement

Core Military Capability of China’s Air Force

June.05 (released by “China Military Power Mashup” and written by Guo Hongbo) — The Chinese Air Force has demonstrated continued improvements in military capabilities in many crucial operations, military and non-military, including field combat drills. Sino-Russian military exercises, security maintenance for the Beijing Olympics and relief work for the Sichuan earthquake. The Air Force has [...]

Core Military Capability of China’s Air Force

Chinese expert says F-35 fighter has become an expensive toy

Apr.14 (China Defense News cited from globaltimes.com) — The F-35 Lightning-II fighter, planned to be the new workhorse of the US armed forces, has run into a financial crisis. The price of a single aircraft has jumped from $50 million to $90 million, and possibly even up to $120 million. The US is revising its [...]

Chinese expert says F-35 fighter has become an expensive toy

How Tough is China’s Mission to Fight Terrorism

Mar.23 (written by By Zhu Chenghu and released by China Military Power Mashup) — Eight years ago, then U.S. President George W. Bush, while delivering a televised speech at Congress, solemnly announced: “Our war on terror begins with al-Qaeda, but it does not end there. It will not end until every terrorist group of global [...]

How Tough is China’s Mission to Fight Terrorism

The Development of China’s Military Cambat Helmets

Mar.16 (released by China Military Power Mashup) — A combat helmet has been an essential part of military kit from ancient times. What about the combat helmet in active service in China? NEW-GENERATION NON-METAL HELMET For much of the time since the founding of the People’s Republic of China in 1949, the People’s Liberation Army (PLA) did [...]

The Development of China’s Military Cambat Helmets

Why Is China Slowing its Military Spending?

Mar.11 (China Military News cited from Time.com and written by Austin Ramzy) — For the past two decades, China’s rapid economic growth has been twinned with an even more rapid increase in military spending. While GDP has expanded by an annual average of 9.6% over the past 10 years, the reported budget for the People’s [...]

Why Is China Slowing its Military Spending?

China-made Mine sweeping tools used in UN peacekeeping missions

Mar.04 (released by China Military Power Mashup and written by Jiang Xinghua) — Editor’s Note: According to statistics from the Headquarters of the General Staff of the People’s Liberation Army, 65 million to 110 million landmines lie buried in 68 countries, killing or injuring about 26,000 people each year. This year marks the 10th anniversary [...]

China-made Mine sweeping tools used in UN peacekeeping missions

NUDT: The cradle of PLA Advanced Strategic Weapons

Feb.24 (story released by China Military Power Mashup) – In early July of 2009, 62 senior military officers of the People’s Liberation Army (PLA) finished a 43-day training course and graduated from the National Diversity of Defense Technology (NUDT), a comprehensive university in Changsha, capital of central China’s Hunan Province, under the dual supervision of the [...]

NUDT: The cradle of PLA Advanced Strategic Weapons

Jul.08 (China Military Power Mashup reporting by Johnathan Weng) — This latest video at present is the clearest motion pictures of J-15, which is named as “Flying Shark” and a carrier-based fighter aircraft that is in development by the Shenyang Aircraft Corporation and the 601 Institute for the PLAN’s future aircraft carriers.

China to launch high-resolution mapping satellite in 2011

30 July 2010

Jul.30 (China Military News cited from Xinhua) — China’s first high resolution, stereoscopic mapping satellite for civilian use will be launched during the second half of 2011, the State Bureau of Surveying and Mapping said Thursday. The bureau said the ZY-3 will be sent into space by the Long March-4B carrier rocket from the Taiyuan Satellite [...]

Read the full story

Posted in China Space PowerComments (0)

China warns against U.S. interference in island ownership battle

28 July 2010

Jul.28 (China Military News cited from Postmedia News and written By Aileen McCabe) — Opposition is gathering in China to Washington’s renewed “national interest” in the territorial disputes over more than 200 tiny islands in the South China Sea. In an editorial Tuesday, the official China Daily accused the U.S. of trying to “rekindle the feud” [...]

Read the full story

Posted in China NavyComments (1)

China conducts large military exercise

28 July 2010

Jul.28 (China Military News cited from AFP) — China has staged a large-scale military exercise on its east coast, state media reported, just as South Korea and the United States conduct their own major naval drill opposed by Beijing. Artillery troops of the Nanjing Military Region, responsible for defending the nation’s eastern seaboard, conducted live ammunition [...]

Read the full story

Posted in China NavyComments (0)

Battle of the South China Sea

27 July 2010

Jul.28 (China Military News cited from The wall street journal) — Hillary Clinton had the temerity to offer a few anodyne suggestions about the South China Sea at the Asean Regional Forum meeting in Hanoi last week. Soon after, China’s Foreign Minister lashed out at the U.S. Secretary of State, and dyspeptic editorials from the [...]

Read the full story

Posted in China Military NewsComments (1)

China urges restraint on the Korean peninsula

26 July 2010

Jul.22 (China Military Newws cited from AFP) –  CHINA’S Foreign Minister Yang Jiechi called for restraint from all parties on Sunday, as the US and South Korea launched a major naval exercise despite threats of nuclear retaliation by North Korea. ‘All involved parties should commit to providing peace and security on the Korean peninsula,’ Mr Yang [...]

Read the full story

Posted in China Military NewsComments (0)

Chinese army to target cyber war threat

26 July 2010

Jul.22 (China Military News cited from guardian.co.uk) — The People’s Liberation Army has unveiled its first department dedicated to tackling cyber war threats and protecting information security, Chinese media reported today. The move comes just over a year after the United States created a cyber command. The PLA Daily said the military announced the creation of the [...]

Read the full story

Posted in China Army, China Military News, Cyberspace securityComments (0)

U.S. continues effort to counter China’s influence in Asia

24 July 2010

Jul.24 (China Military News cited from Washington Post and written by John Pomfret) — The Obama administration’s announcement Thursday that it will resume relations with Indonesia’s special forces, despite the unit’s history of alleged atrocities and assassinations, is the most significant move yet by the United States to strengthen ties in East Asia as a [...]

Read the full story

Posted in China Military NewsComments (1)

Resolving S.China Sea disputes pivotal to stability: Clinton

23 July 2010

Jul.23 (China Military News cited from AFP) – Resolving disputes over the South China Sea is “pivotal” to regional stability, US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said at security talks on Friday. Her comments came as China increasingly asserts its power in the region, causing concern to nearby countries as well as the United States. US commanders have [...]

Read the full story

Posted in China Military NewsComments (0)

China takes aim at US drill in Yellow Sea

22 July 2010

Jul.22 (China Military News cited from The Australian) — TENSION is rising in the Yellow Sea after the US promised fresh country-specific sanctions against North Korea, as plans for US and South Korea naval exercises drew fresh fire from China. US Defence Secretary Robert Gates and his South Korean counterpart, Kim Tae-young, announced on Tuesday that [...]

Read the full story

Posted in China Military News, China NavyComments (1)

China builds Hypersonic wind tunnel to develop spaceplane

19 July 2010

Jul.18 (China Defense Mashup News) — Chinese Inner Mongolia North Heavy Industries Group recently announced that the group has successfully provided the key element of “JF12 Shockwave Hypersonic wind tunnel”, which is the most advanced and creative project in world Hypersonic research area. “JF12 Shockwave Hypersonic wind tunnel” is being constructed for the initiation of China’s future [...]

Read the full story

Posted in China Military News, China Space PowerComments (4)

See more articles in the archive

  • You can see the latest posts here
  • Subscribe
Advertise Here