In an international security environment of renewed great power competition, China’s military modernization effort, including its naval modernization effort, has become the top focus of U.S. defense planning and budgeting. China’s navy, which China has been steadily modernizing for roughly 25 years, since the early to mid-1990s, has become a formidable military force within China’s […]

The Nanchang, China’s first Type 055 guided-missile destroyer, was commissioned in the People’s Liberation Army Navy on Sunday morning in the port city of Qingdao, east China’s Shandong Province. The 10,000 tonne-class destroyer officially debuted at the multinational naval parade in celebration of the Chinese navy’s 70th founding anniversary on April 23, 2019. Launched on […]

DefenceTalkChina celebrated the 70th anniversary of its navy on 23 April by showing off its growing fleet in a sea parade featuring a brand new guided-missile destroyer. Under grey, foggy skies, Chinese President Xi Jinping stood on a warship to take the salute from 32 Chinese vessels, including submarines, and 39 planes off the eastern […]https://www.defencetalk.com/chinese-navy-shows-off-new-warship-in-70th-anniversary-parade-72269/

DefenceTalkChina needs “at least three aircraft carriers” to protect its extensive coastline and its interests abroad, a senior Chinese naval expert said Wednesday. “Our country has an 18,000-kilometre (11,000-mile) long coastline. Also, our economy is outward looking and our interests abroad are growing,” said Commodore Zhang Junshe, a member of the Naval Research Institute. “All […]https://www.defencetalk.com/china-needs-at-least-three-aircraft-carriers-naval-expert-72021/

DefenceTalkA US Navy guided-missile destroyer today sailed near disputed islands in the South China Sea where Beijing has built military installations, as trade talks between the two countries kicked off. The US and its allies periodically send planes and warships through the area, which is claimed by China, to signal to Beijing their right under […]https://www.defencetalk.com/us-conducts-latest-south-china-sea-sail-by-amid-trade-talks-72013/

DefenceTalkChina is likely to use an electromagnetic catapult for fighter jets on its third aircraft carrier, experts said on Thursday. The world’s leading electromagnetic catapult technology was developed by a team led by Ma Weiming, an academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, a Beijing-based expert, who asked for anonymity, told the Global Times on […]https://www.defencetalk.com/china-readying-new-catapult-for-3rd-aircraft-carrier-71100/

DefenceTalkJapan said Thursday (Jan 11) it was tracking a Chinese frigate in waters surrounding islands in the East China Sea, the first such incursion in more than a year near the flashpoint isles claimed by both countries. Japanese navy ships spotted the 4,000-tonne Jiangkai II class frigate around 11am (0200 GMT) in waters surrounding the […]https://www.defencetalk.com/japan-tracks-chinese-frigate-near-disputed-isles-71046/

DefenceTalkChina’s second aircraft carrier might conduct its first sea trials in February, military analysts said after Taiwan media reported that China’s first aircraft carrier the Liaoning sailed near the island on Friday. China launched its second aircraft carrier in April 2017 after the Liaoning, a refitted Soviet Union-made carrier that went into commission in 2012. […]https://www.defencetalk.com/chinas-second-aircraft-carrier-to-hold-first-sea-trials-71030/

DefenceTalkA new nuclear submarine has been turned over to the People’s Liberation Army Navy, one of the largest State-owned naval shipbuilding enterprises revealed on Tuesday, but experts believe that this submarine is not the most advanced Type 096, which is China’s next generation strategic nuclear submarine. China Shipbuilding Industry Corporation (CSIC), which also manufactures China’s […]https://www.defencetalk.com/pla-navy-gets-new-nuclear-submarine-70515/

DefenceTalkChinese and Russian navies completed exercises in the first stage of the ongoing joint military drills code-named “Joint Sea 2017” on Thursday. The missile destroyer “Hefei” and missile frigate “Yuncheng” of the Chinese fleet docked at the Lieutenant Schmidt Quai in the Russian city of St. Petersburg in the afternoon local time, following an intensive […]https://www.defencetalk.com/china-russia-complete-phase-one-joint-naval-drills-in-baltic-sea-70192/