China Defense Blog

Friday, March 20, 2015

Use the Qi, Lui

Lui, you switched off your targeting computer. What's wrong?

Since 90% of Kokang's population are ethnic Han-Chinese (and their currency is the RMB), their armed struggle against the Tatmadaw is winning a great deal of sympathy inside of the People’s Republic. Despite people’s misgiving about the MNDAA’s leader Yang Mai-liang, they’d consider foot soldiers of the MNDAA “one of the good guys”, “fighting a good fight”, if internet rants are to be believed.

A MNDAA solider's salary is 600 RMB a month, they could make three times of that by working as laborers inside of China.

Wednesday, March 18, 2015

Tatmadaw, without air power.

According to unverifiable local sources, the Kokang rebels scored a major victory by inflicting over 70 enemy casualties (there are graphic photos of the body-count elsewhere) belonging to the Tatmadaw 66th Light Infantry Division two days ago. The rebels credited their victory by the absence of the Myanmar air force

http://www.rfa.org/english/news/myanmar/kokang-border-03182015165838.html

Kokang rebels fighting against Myanmar’s army captured a government position near the country’s border with China on Wednesday, killing seven Myanmar soldiers while losing two rebel fighters, local sources told RFA’s Mandarin Service.

Government forces shifted to using ground forces and artillery to attack the rebels after an incident last week in which Myanmar’s air force mistakenly dropped bombs on Chinese territory, killing four sugar cane farmers and drawing a stern warning from China.

"Gun battles continued from last night until dawn as the Myanmar military launched an artillery bombardment against rebels. Even though we don’t know where the government force is targeting, but we can hear explosions from heavy artillery fires,” said a Kokang border area resident who gave only his surname, Yuan.

“There are no more Myanmar military air planes in the sky, however. They might fear Chinese fighter jets,” he told RFA, referring to sorties China’s military has been staging in response to the cross-border attack on March 1

30471, the first known serial number of PLAAF's KJ-500

Wednesday, February 18, 2015

Photo of the day: KJ-500 AWAC in service with the PLAAF.

Wednesday, November 06, 2013

First Showing: KJ500 AWACS prototype

After a successful introduction of 11 KJ200 "Balance Beam" mid-size AWAC into PLAN-AF and PLAAAF service, the Chinese military is switching gear to a fixed rotodome based approach for housing their three ASEA radars.

Photo credit goes to stoneinsky.