China Defense Blog

Thursday, October 10, 2024

PR Release Of The Day: Tactical search exercise being carried out at the Army Infantry College Shijiazhuang Campus.

PR aside, this clip offers a view into how the PLA is training and equipping their officer cadet at their leading college (link)

Source of the clip (link)

PLA Insufficient Firepower Phobia (IFP) Photo Of The Day: PCL-191 300mm MRL

Photo of a Long-range MRL Battalion with seven PCL-191 launchers capable of raining 56 “Freedom and Confucianism” 300mm guided rockets to a maximum range of 150 kilometers in a single salvo!

More on the 73rd Artillery Brigade of the 73rd Group Army’s long-range cross-regional maneuver to the Northwest Plateau

Photo Of The Day: Type1130 CIWS size comparison vs a sailor

Wednesday, October 09, 2024

Drone Application Of The Day: PLA Smoke Generating Drones

Thanks to inflation, smoked salmon is now going as high as $60 USD per lb at Amazon (link) Given how cheap the PLA is, naturally they preferred to smoke their own salmon rather paying retail pricing for those yummy yummy. Hey, they have a bunch of drones sitting around doing nothing, might just as well, to put them to work and make some smoke!

PLA Equipment Of The Day: Type 134 Pit Blaster

The Type 134 is mainly used by the demolition company of the engineer battalion of the combined-arms brigade.

In PLA combat deployment, individual soldiers and fire teams are responsible for their own foxholes, whilst engineers are in charge of high-volume fortifications and trenches such as bunkers for huge command posts and anti-tank trenches. In the past. The shaped charge of this Pit Blaster provides the "Munroe effect," allowing troops to have foxhole protection quickly.

Video of the Type 134 at work

https://www.bilibili.com/video/BV1Zv411675H/

Tuesday, October 08, 2024

Snow bird to Hainan again!

The PLAN's winter "snowbird" to Hainan island, sometimes known as "Chinese Hawaii," continues with two of her aircraft carriers enjoying maitai with small umbrellas on top. It's definitely a wonderful time.

Hainan Jin Jiaomu Port is where CV16 and CV17 are currently vacationing.

Friday, January 01, 2021

"Snow bird" to Hainan island seems to be very popular for the folks up the cold-north.

DDG 105 "Dalian", second of the 055 Renhai class spotted at Hainan together with a host of entourage.

Military exercises conducted in waters around Hainan Island

Source
    China Military Online
Editor
    Wang Xinjuan

Time
    2020-12-30 10:11:48
http://eng.chinamil.com.cn/view/2020-12/30/content_9960578.htm

BEIJING, Dec. 30 -- According to the notice released by China's Sanya Maritime Safety Administration on December 28, military exercises will be conducted in waters around Hainan Island from December 29, 2020 to January 7, 2021.

HN0129 SOUTH CHINA SEA MILITARY EXERCISES IN AREA BOUNDED BY THE LINES JOINING 17-29.0N 110-02.0E, 17-43.5N 110-18.5E, 17-37.5N 110-24.5E AND 17-23.0N 110-08.0E FROM 290000UTC DEC 20 TO 070800UTC JAN 21. ENTERING PROHIBITED. HAINAN MSA CHINA.

HN0128 SOUTH CHINA SEA MILITARY EXERCISES IN AREA BOUNDED BY THE LINES JOINING 17-33.0N 109-30.0E, 17-33.0N 109-51.0E, 17-58.0N 109-51.0E AND 17-58.0N 109-30.0E FROM 290000UTC DEC 20 TO 070800UTC JAN 21. ENTERING PROHIBITED. HAINAN MSA CHINA.

HN0127 SOUTH CHINA SEA MILITARY EXERCISES IN AREA BOUNDED BY THE LINES JOINING 17-54.0N 108-59.0E, 17-54.0N 109-09.0E, 18-04.0N 109-09.0E AND 18-04.0N 108-59.0E FROM 290000UTC DEC 20 TO 070800UTC JAN 21. ENTERING PROHIBITED. HAINAN MSA CHINA.

Tuesday, December 22, 2020

In the meanwhile, the 1st Type075 LPD is enjoying her "snowbird" vacation in the southern tropic of Hainan island

Friday, November 29, 2013

Question of the day: where is Liaoning? It is at Hainan.

China's aircraft carrier docks in Sanya

ABOARD LIAONING AIRCRAFT CARRIER, Nov. 29 (Xinhua) -- China's aircraft carrier, the Liaoning, carried out its first docking manoeuver at Sanya City's a naval harbor in south China's Hainan Province on Friday morning.

The aircraft carrier will carry out relevant experiments and trainings here.

On Tuesday, the Liaoning left its home port of Qingdao in east China's Shandong Province for the South China Sea, passing through the Taiwan Strait on Thursday.

This is the first time the Liaoning has conducted a cross-sea training voyage since it was commissioned into the People's Liberation Army (PLA) Navy last year.

It was escorted by two missile destroyers, the Shenyang and Shijiazhuang, and two missile frigates, the Yantai and Weifang.

Tuesday, March 23, 2010

Vacation in Sanya

When the PLAN submarine base in Sanya Hainan was revealed to the public two years ago, it caused a stir within the PLA watching community (here).

Simultaneously, Sanya is developing into one of the nicest vacation spots in the world. Why swim with dolphins when you can swim with Han class nuclear submarines?

The decommissioned LSM 978 (here)

Hi Res Photo Of The Day: H/PJ-38 130mm main gun

Note the muzzle velocity radar installed on the H/PJ-38 130mm main gun found on Type 052D Type DDG 165 Zhanjiang of the Southern Theater Command Navy

Tuesday, June 07, 2016

Type 052D destroyer, DDG 174 Hefei, a look inside.

The PLAN, and to a greater extent the PLA in general, is cheap (I have said this before, but I shall say it again and again) therefore the Spartan-look of their most advanced DDG is not unexpected. That said, the crew comfort level is still a far cry from those good ole Luda days.