As part of the Fourth China-Russia Expo, on June 16, United Engine Corporation (UEC, a company of Rostec) and Harbin Turbine Company (HTC), a Chinese state-owned company, concluded a strategic partnership agreement on the development, manufacturing and delivery of small and medium-sized industrial gas-turbine units. Before 2014, Russia used a Ukrainian Zorya-Mashproyekt gas-turbine propulsion plants. […]

Rostec may sign the contract with the Aviation Industry Corporation of China (AVIC) for the Advanced Heavy Lifter (AHL), a heavy-lift helicopter to be developed jointly by Russia and China, before the end of this year. This was announced by Victor Kladov, Director for International Cooperation and Regional Policy of Rostec, at the Fourth China-Russia […]

The CASIC Vice General Manager Liu Shiquan has revealed a concept of space vehicle at recent Global Space Exploration Conference (GLEX 2017) in Beijing. The new space vehicle as a new generation of the reusable vehicle for transport between space and ground, the aerospace vehicle can execute aerospace launch missions and take off from ground airport horizontally. It features advantages […]

More than 100 men were killed after a medium size medium range transport aircraft Shaanxi Y-8produced by Shaanxi Aircraft Corporation crashed in Myanmar. Sources in the Myanmar Ministry of Defence confirmed the Shaanxi Y8F200W crashed into Andaman Sea near Dawei. A Myanmar air force Shaanxi Y8F200W (number 5820) went missing at 1.35pm local time (7:05am UK […]

China’s Ministry of National Defense refuted Monday Indian media’s report which alleged that a Chinese military helicopter invaded Indian airspace. Indian media forged factually incorrect stories, said the ministry when asked by press to make comments on Indian media report that Chinese military helicopters “invaded” India’s “territorial airspace” in the “Barahoti region” at the middile section […]

China’s famous JL-9 “Shanying” fighter-trainer jet saw its first model for foreign trade roll off the assembly line in Guizhou province on June 5. Some Chinese media reported that the customer is Sudan. Now coded as FTC-2000, the jet has a maximum weapon load of 2 tons. It features five attaching points, which can be […]

The North China Institute of Vehicle Research has disclosed details of a prototype high-speed amphibious combat vehicle. The new high-speed amphibious combat vehicle has been developed for military littoral, riverine and special operations. The prototype weighs 5.5 tons. Its four wheels can deflect to the chassis struts at 70 degrees thus reducing resistance during a high-speed sprint. The wheels […]

Thailand and China pledged here Tuesday to joint hands to push forward the all-round development of the military relations between the two countries. While meeting with Fang Fenghui, a member of China’s Central Military Commission (CMC) and chief of the Joint Staff Department under the CMC, Thai Prime Minister Prayut Chan-o-cha said that the kingdom […]

The China North Industries Corporation, officially abbreviated as Norinco, has offered its AR3 multiple artillery rocket system to Peruvian Armed Forces. At SITDEF international defense technology exhibition in Peru, the model of AR3 multiple artillery rocket system was shown by Peruvian officials. The AR3 is a Chinese artillery rocket system, developed specially for export. The main mission for this artillery […]

China has unveiled the new MA60H maritime patrol aircraft for to counter piracy and to back up its territorial claims in East Asia and the South China Sea. The South China Sea (and the Spratly Islands) is the site of an ongoing dispute between several neighboring nations. The new maritime patrol aircraft is based on Xian’s […]