Test fire photos of CX-1 ramjet, a.ka. Sino-BrahMos

One thing for certain, this is CX-1 is for real. Note the VLS configuration.

Zhuhai Surprise: CX-1 ramjet supersonic ASM Sino-BrahMos??

note the thrust vector control at booster

PLAN commission of the day: The 16th Type056 "Zhuzhou"

Zhuhai Surprise: Sino-AGM-154 Joint Standoff Weapon

Mounted on a PLAAF JH-7A is a precision guided weapon look similar to the AGM-154 Joint Standoff Weapon by Raytheon.   

Photo of an AGM-154 Joint Standoff Weapon mounted on a FA-18 (Photo: U.S. Navy)

Zhuhai Surprise: ZBD04A/WZ502G export variant.

Thursday, December 26, 2013

Photo of the day: ZBD04A/WZ502G of Chengdu Military Region

According to this PLAdaily article (here) an armored regiment of Chengdu Military Region (MR) is now upgunned with the latest ZBD04A/WZ502G, this marks the fourth China Army MR to be equipped with this latest Norinco IFV.  The first three MRs with ZBD04A/WZ502G equipped units are Beijing, Shanyang and Lanzhou.    The challenge now for this Chengdu MR unit is to adopt ZBD04A/WZ502G properly for operations in the mountainous terrain, over the primitive road network and to trailblazer a new highland war-fighting doctrine for other units to follow. 

Lanzhou MR's ZBD04A/WZ502G on maneuver, photo taken March 2013.

Tuesday, December 27, 2011

New tracked IFV entering service with a unit "up north"

More photos from the Chinese railway junkies

This new IFV appears to be sporting a BMP-3 turret mod.

Monday, June 06, 2011

A new Chinese tracked vehicle family emerges

Little is known about this new IFV but thus far it seems to have developed a complete family of variants in various stages of testing or field deployments. Some unconfirmed claims pointing to a heavy Type 89/ZSD89/YW534 mod, but without a closer inspection or an official acknowledgement from Norinco, they are still speculations.

At any rate, the PLA is long over due for a modern tracked vehicle,  this is especially true consider the weak armor protection the old Type89 and 86 families have to offer. 

 Engineering variant

 APC variant from the official Xinhua News

 Command variant

 Recon variant

 

SP 120mm turreted mortar variant

Photo from the PLAdaily

Photos of the day: Zubr 3325、3326

Thursday, March 27, 2014

PLAN commission of the day: First Zubr LCAC 3325 commissioned.

Zhuhai Surprise: Y-20 is here.

Zhuhai Surprise: Norinco AH-4 155mm Light-weight Howitzer, AKA Chinese M777

According to Norinco, this AH-4 weighting in about 3,000kg, just a bit lighter than the US M777 counter part and chambered to fire all standard NATO 155mm rounds.

Zhuhai Surprise: Norinco Red-Arrow 12 ATGM, AKA Chinese FGM-148 Javelin

Another STUFT forward.

Thanks hmmwv for this update.

Here is one solution to address PLAN's tanker shortage challenge -- STUFT (ship taken up from trade) it!

PLAN just conducted civilian tanker UNREP exercise, involved ships are FFG523 Putian and CSL Hua Chuan. They did both parallel and tandem replenishments.