Senior officials from Russia and China held talks in Beijing and shared concerns about the possible deployment of an advanced U.S. missile defense system to South Korea, according to China’s official media on Tuesday. The talks, led by Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Igor Morgulov and Kong Xuanyou, China’s assistant foreign minister, were held on Monday, […]

China on Saturday urged Japan to respect China’s major interests and concerns, and not to intervene in or hype up the South China Sea issue. The call came as Chinese Admiral Sun Jianguo met with Japan’s Vice Minister of Defense for International Affairs Toru Mimura here on the sidelines of the 15th Shangri-La Dialogue. Sun, […]

The new Chinese  Y-20 heavy-lifting transport plane will soon be delivered to buyers, a project manager said on Thursday. The manager expects that China will need at least 1,000 of the huge aircraft. “I can’t tell you the exact time planned for delivery, but … it will be carried out very soon,” Zhu Qian, head of […]

The Chinese navy will participate in the Rim of the Pacific (RIMPAC) multinational naval exercises, said Liang Yang, the navy spokesperson, on Thursday. Attending the drill will be a missile destroyer, a missile frigate, a supply ship, a hospital ship, a submarine rescue vessel and two helicopters. As previously agreed by the Chinese and U.S. […]

A Chinese UN peacekeeper and three members of a UN de-mining unit have been killed in northern Mali. China’s foreign ministry confirmed one of its nationals was killed in a mortar attack on a UN camp in Gao that seriously wounded three others. The UN said that “two security guards and an international expert” with […]

Kazakhstan unveils  new Chengdu «Pterodactyl» also known as Wing Loong is a Medium-Altitude Long-Endurance (MALE) unmanned combat aerial vehicle at International Armament and Military-Technical Equipment Exhibition KADEX 2016, reported by military-informant.com. Kazakhstan has ordered an undisclosed number of Wing Loong unmanned combat aerial vehicles from China in 2016. The Wing Loong or «Pterodactyl» drone is an unmanned combat aerial vehicle  developed by […]

China’s armed CH-3  drone was spotted in Myanmar when preparing to fly. Myanmar to buy undisclosed number of new  Chinese CH-3  UAVs developed by China Academy of Aerospace Aerodynamics of China Aerospace Science and Technology Corporation (CASC), also known as the 11th Academy of CASC. The CH-3 is a fixed wing unmanned combat aerial vehicle (UCAV), also known as a […]

China deployed BZK-005 high altitude, long range UAV  to a contested island in the South China Sea. The Chinese BZK-005 drone was spotted on  airport runway  in the South China Sea. The newly obtained satellite images from ImageSat International (ISI) show a Chinese Harbin BZK-005 long range reconnaissance drone on Woody Island in the South China Sea. The drone […]

The 31st Combined Corps of the Chinese People’s Liberation Army (PLA) conducted 3D landing and assault drills with  550-tonne «Bizon» hovercraft in a sea area in south east China with the troops mixed into composite battalions. The «Bizon» is a   Zubr-class of air-cushioned landing craft (LCAC) made in Ukraine at Feodosia Shipbuilding Company.   In 2009, China placed an order […]

The Chinese naval dock landing ship Changbaishan (Hull No. 989) arrived at the Port of Sattahip of Thailand at 13:00 on the afternoon of May 19, local time. Onboard the ship were troops of the PLA Navy’s Marine Corps to participate in the “Blue Strike 2016”, a joint military training exercise to be conducted by […]