The adaptive training courses of ground target strike of the Aviadarts international contest was held in Russia on Aug 2, local time. The contest is part of the International Army Games 2016, and over 50 aircraft in 15 models from total of 48 flight crews from China, Russia, Kazakhstan and Belarus participated in the live-fire […]

Chinese Defense Ministry Spokesperson Colonel Wu Qian made a statement to the press Tuesday on Japan’s newly published defense white paper. Following is the full text of his statement: The Japanese Defense Ministry published a defense white paper on August 2. The China-related portion of the document is full of lousy clichés, makes irresponsible remarks […]

Photographs of the fourteen new Shaanxi Y-9 military transport aircraft at one of China’s military airfields, emerged on social media on 1 August. Judging from the recently photos, there is no doubt that the Y-9 project has entered serial production. According to Shanfei’s press release the Y-9 dual-purpose Tactical Transport Aircraft project has been restarted. Shanfei upper […]

China’s navy has fired dozens of missiles and torpedoes during exercises in the East China Sea that come amid heightened maritime tensions in the region, underscoring Beijing’s determination to back up its sovereignty claims with force if needed. That reported by  Associated Press. The live-fire drills that began Monday follow China’s strident rejection of an […]

The WS2600 10×10 Transporter Erector Launcher (TEL) with its 40,000 kg of payload has been seen in public for sometime now, thar reported by china-defense.blogspot.com. The latest was the military parade on Sept 3rd 2015.   However, its engineering/loader variants are not being shown for some odd reason — it could be that they are just simply […]

Two J-11 fighter jets of People’s Liberation Army Navy fly in formation for a sortie during an air combat training exercise. An aviation division of the South China Sea Fleet with the PLA Navy organized its J-11 fighter jets to conduct an air combat training exercise recently in undisclosed waters in the South China Sea. Earlier China […]

The Chinese ZBD05 infantry fighting vehicle on the Baltiysk main base of  Baltic Fleet of the Russian Navy (Kaliningrad region). Teams of the People’s Liberation Army of China  arrived in the Kaliningrad Region in order to participate in the “Seaborne assault” contest within the International Army Games 2016. Chinese military servicemen will operate their own armament and […]

Chinese Air Force PLAAF fighter-bombers JH-7 arrive at Novosibirsk air base to take part in the international contest «Avaidarts-2016». The Xian JH-7  (NATO reporting name Flounder), also known as the FBC-1 (Fighter/Bomber China-1) Flying Leopard, is a tandem two-seat, twin-engine fighter-bomber in service with the People’s Liberation Army Naval Air Force (PLANAF), and the People’s Liberation Army […]

The “Golden Dart-2016″ offense and assault military competition held by the PLA Air Force kicked off in the east of China on July 21,2016. Dozens of aviation brigades and regiments from the air forces under the five PLA Theater Commands will make their debuts, and hundreds of pilots will compete for the ” Golden Dart”, […]

A ZBD-03 airborne armored infantry fighting vehicle fires at a simulated target at an undisclosed area on the plateau of northwest China during a live-fire training exercise. An airborne regiment with the PLA Air Force organized its ZBD-03 airborne armored infantry fighting vehicles to conduct a live-fire training exercise at an undisclosed area on the […]