DefenceTalkDefenceTalkChina on Wednesday condemned a Pentagon report for claiming Beijing wants to double its stockpile of nuclear warheads within a decade as it seeks to deter the United States from any intervention linked to Taiwan. The Pentagon’s annual study on China’s military power issued Tuesday said it has already matched or outstripped the US military […]https://www.defencetalk.com/beijing-pillories-pentagon-report-on-chinese-military-ambitions-76233/

DefenceTalkDefenceTalkAmid rising tensions across the Taiwan Straits with the US military’s increasingly frequent operations in the region, the Chinese People’s Liberation Army (PLA) Navy recently held drills in the East China Sea, with the latest, more powerful, anti-stealth aircraft-capable version of the Type 052D destroyer making its first public appearance, according to military reports over […]https://www.defencetalk.com/plas-upgraded-type-052d-destroyer-makes-training-debut-in-e-china-sea-75907/

DefenceTalkChina’s most advanced vehicle-mounted howitzer, the PCL-181, recently entered service with the People’s Liberation Army (PLA) Eastern Theater Command, the theater command confirmed on Thursday. With technical details revealed for the first time, experts say the weapon is one of the best in the world. In the past few days, troops of a brigade under […]https://www.defencetalk.com/chinas-latest-most-advanced-pcl-181-howitzer-enters-service-75359/

The Chinese People’s Liberation Army (PLA) has unveiled its latest edition of the Z-10 attack helicopter, featuring exhaust openings that face upward instead of outward, with experts claiming the chopper’s infrared signal will make it harder to target. The upgrade also indicates that the domestic-made attack helicopter is equipped with stronger engines, experts also said. […]

The opaque Chinese arms industry has made the Asian nation the world’s second largest producer of munitions, a clear shift from a decade ago when China relied on imports, researchers said in a new report Monday. The report by the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI) suggests that China’s weapons production, which has previously been […]

China’s most advanced J-20 stealth fighter jets assigned to an ace unit have been conducting real-combat scenario training together with powerful J-16 and agile J-10C jets, the People’s Liberation Army (PLA) Air Force revealed, as a Chinese expert said Monday the combination can conjure a kaleidoscope of tactics to safeguard the country. In a video […]

DefenceTalkChina’s missile-borne anti-interference antenna for its State-own BeiDou Navigation Satellite System will be delivered to the country’s People’s Liberation Army (PLA) within this year, according to a defense technology firm spokesperson on Thursday. Jin Zhongshu, deputy general manager of the Beijing Li Gong Navigation Technology Co, made the remarks during an interview with the Global […]https://www.defencetalk.com/pla-to-get-missile-borne-anti-jamming-antenna-71708/

DefenceTalkIn the largest exercise of its kind, more than 10,000 troops traveled more than 2,000 kilometers to arrive on Monday at two army training bases in Southwest China’s Yunnan Province and East China’s Shandong Province and begin battle training, China Central Television show Military Report reported. The largest ever trans-regional training of the People’s Liberation […]https://www.defencetalk.com/pla-marine-corps-conducts-massive-ground-breaking-maneuvers-71576/

DefenceTalkChina is upgrading its Western Theater Command in order to confront any threat from India, a Chinese military specialist said after photographs of a J-10 jet flying over the high-altitude plateau in western China were released by the People’s Liberation Army (PLA) during the Spring Festival holiday. The pictures posted on the English version of […]https://www.defencetalk.com/china-upgrades-airspace-defense-in-west-to-counter-threat-from-india-71495/

DefenceTalkThe People’s Liberation Army (PLA) Navy’s South China Sea Fleet deployed a “new type of electronic warfare aircraft” in its recent combat maneuvers, a move to greatly enhance the navy’s capabilities in modern warfare to safeguard the country’s sea rights, said Chinese military experts. The new aircraft is the H-6G bomber developed for 10 years […]https://www.defencetalk.com/pla-navy-deploys-new-type-of-electronic-warfare-aircraft-71120/