Professional publication of the day:Understanding the “People” of the People’s Liberation Army - A Study of Marriage, Family, Housing, and Benefits

An important but often overlooked issues -- how PLAAF keeps its most important asset happy

https://www.airuniversity.af.mil/Portals/10/CASI/documents/Books/CASI-People%20of%20the%20PLA.pdf?ver=2018-08-01-121059-327

PR photos of the day: Joint Tactical Battlegroup (Battalion), 12th Combined-Arms Brigade, 76th GA, Western Theater Command

PPZ10 Tracked 120mm Gun-Mortar

Photo of the day: Type 082II minesweeper and her three little unmanned drones

818 is the mother ship that controls her three little Type 529 drones.

Photos of the day: 6th Marine Brigade is fully equiped.

Former 77th Motorized Infantry Brigade, 26GA, Jinan MR "Yellow Three", transferred to the Navy Feb 2017

http://www.xinhuanet.com/photo/2018-04/12/c_1122669349_2.htm

Communist propaganda of the day: Qatar police marching PLA style and in Chinese

Photo of the day: PLAN Marine's ZTQ15 105mm Light Tank

Finally the PLAN Marine has a tank of their own to fill a critical gap before becoming a true expeditionary force.   No, ZTD05 is an amphibious assault gun, not a real tank.

Marine smurf blue

ZTQ15 in army camo

PLAN Marine ZTD05 amphibious assault gun in their "deployment camo"

Wednesday, February 14, 2018

Photos of the day: PLA Marine's amphibious assault breacher vehicle in action

PLAN Marine's Amphibious assault breacher vehicle, based on  ZBD05 Amphibious Infantry Fighting Vehicle chassis firing obstacle-breaching rockets :

PR attempt aside, it is not nearly as impressive as her USMC counterpart -- they use a real tank for this breaching job.

Note to papa smurf, it is time to give those boys some real armor to work with.  Remember  IFV is not a tank and engineers make a world of difference.

Funny thing -- the PLA actually has large numbers MBT based assault breachers already in service.  Such as the GSL130/WZ6411 Armored Breeching Vehicle based on the  ZTZ79 chassis here:

Saturday, January 06, 2018

http://china-defense.blogspot.com/2018/01/non-sequitur-memes-of-day-begun-blue.html

Non sequitur memes of the day: "Begun the blue smurf war has"