Given China's manufacturing advances and enormous stocks of FAB bombs, it would be a great surprise if they didn't have their own version of UMPK.
I'm sure there are kits for other types of unguided bombs as well.
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Sunday, January 19, 2025
There it is, Tian Gang, Chinese UMPK aerial bomb glide kit for 500KG bomb
Saturday, January 18, 2025
Friday, January 17, 2025
CCTV Report Of The Day: LB16 - 204th Heavy Armored Combined-Arms Brigade, 78th GA
With cage armor and winter camo.
Saturday, April 18, 2020
PLA Orbat Update: 204th Heavy Armored Combined-Arms Brigade (LB 16) 78th Group Army
Saturday, June 08, 2019
PLA Unit of the day: 204th Combined-Arms Brigade, 78th GA, Northern Theater Command
The 4th Tank Division was founded in 1969 amid the Sino-Soviet Border Conflict. The division was stuck with the vintage T-34/85 tanks until 1980. During 1980-1982 ZTZ-59/59A's finally replaced T-34/85's. In around 2015 the 4th Armored Brigade received ZTZ99's, and in 2019 ZTZ99A's arrived
--Andrew KC
Thursday, January 16, 2025
PLAN Decommission Of The Day: FFG 527 Luoyang after 20 years of service
Most modern warships operate for more than 20 years, with some lasting up to 30 years or more. However, given how quickly the PLAN is "making dumplings," rehiring older, less powerful ones to reduce operating costs and personnel makes sense.
Link to the news of the decommissioning in Chinese (here)
Monday, September 02, 2024
Family Photo: Type 053H3 class frigate.
Everyone smiles now and says chess.
FFG564 Yichang, FFG565 Huludao, FFG 566 Huaihua, FFG567 Xiangyang, FFG528 Mianyang
Wednesday, August 21, 2024
Checking in with the Type 053H3 class frigate
The PLAN still maintains 8 Type 053H3 class Frigates (FFG) in its fleet (two of which were sold to the Bangladesh Navy), but they rarely receive any no media coverage. For example, the majority of the class's air defense systems were upgraded in 2017, but a CCTV report on them only aired recently. I suppose they aren't as appealing as the latest and greatest Type055.
FFG 527 Luoyang
Tuesday, January 03, 2017
Type 053H3 FFG gets an upgrade.
The ten 053H3s still in service are considered "second tier" by the PLAN and being deployed as such. However, since this class has organic hangar support for ASW helo and with a greater range, they are more versatile than the newer Type056. Expect them to be around for a while.
Hi Res Photos Of The Day: Z-20J
Photo credit goes to B747SPNKG
Wednesday, November 13, 2024
Move Over PLA Army Flyboys, Now It Is PLA Marine's Turn To Show Off Their Shipborne Assault Z20J
The examples on display at the current Zhuhai Airshow belong to the PLAN Marine Aviation Brigade, and provide substantially better features and capacities over the preceding Z-8 and Z-9s. (link)
Similar to the Z-20T, J variant's stub wings can host different fire support solutions from rockets, gunpods, to ATGM