Photos of the day: ZBD04A/WZ502G of the 196th Mech Infantry Brigade, 65GA, Beijing MR

Judging by the vehicle numbers, all four battalions of the 196th are now upgraded to ZBD04A/WZ502G IFV.  

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.

Monday, February 06, 2012

Photo of the day: New tracked IFV with bolted armor

Since not having enough armor protection is one of the loudest complaint against the ZDB04 tracked IFV, it was not popular with overseas customers.   it appears that Norinco took the complaint to heart and address that deficiency with some bolted armor slap on its new family of IFV.

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

Friday, August 03, 2012

Photo of the day PLZ05A Tracked 120mm Gun-Mortar.

Monday, June 18, 2012

Photo of the day: ZBD08 ATGM carrier variant

Not sure what new ATGM it will carry but rumor has it, it will be the new the "Sino-Spike" we have seen previously.

Taiwanese Animators of the day: ROCN's Sea Oryx Missile System

Life can be so unfair

As part of the Firepower-2015 trans-MAC military exercise, an Air Defense Brigade of LanZhou Military Region was tasked to fend off a "blue army" fighter-bomber strike with only organic assets and no air cover. 

Well, it was not a contest but rather a merciless massacre.   Life can be so unfair for some PLA grunts.

 note the Satellite Communications truck

Photos of the day: 21st Group Army at Firepower-2015 trans-MAC military exercise

http://english.chinamil.com.cn/news-channels/china-military-news/2015-05/05/content_6474519.htm

KUNMING, May 5 (ChinaMil) -- The "Firepower-2015", a trans-Military Area Command (MAC) military exercise for the artillery brigades of the Army of the Chinese People's Liberation Army (PLA), was kicked off at the PLA Nanjing Artillery Institute on May 4, 2015.

　　The seven artillery brigades participating in the military exercise come respectively from the PLA's seven MACs. They will try to enhance their capabilities through the realistic military exercise, including reconnaissance, situational awareness, command, control, fast maneuvering, artillery strike, overall defense and comprehensive support.

　　It is learnt that the "Firepower-2015", classified into three stages, will be carried out at the PLA Nanjing Artillery Institute in Nanjing city in east China's Jiangsu Province and the Qingtongxia Training Base under the PLA Lanzhou MAC in Wuzhong city in northwest China's Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region.

　　Tang Ning, deputy director of the Military Training Department of the PLA General Staff Headquarters (GSH), said that during the "Firepower-2015" exercise, the artillery forces are totally integrated into the whole combat system based on the system of joint operations.

　　Instead of only paying attention to simple attack and defense as in the past, this military exercise sets up subjects according to the entire process of real combat operations, such as encounter, attack, defense, chase, retreat, airborne operation and anti-airborne operation, Tang added.

Editor:Zhang Tao