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DF-15 (CSS-6) Short-Range Ballistic Missile
The DF-15 (Dong Feng-15; export name: M-9; NATO reporting name: CSS-6) is a road-mobile, conventionally-armed, single-stage, solid-fuelled short-range ballistic missile (SRBM) system developed by...
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DF-11 (CSS-7) Short-Range Ballistic Missile
The DF-11 (Dong Feng-11; export name: M-11; NATO reporting name: CSS-7) is a road-mobile, conventionally-armed, single-stage, solid-fuelled short-range ballistic missile (SRBM) system developed and...
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DF-16 (CSS-11) Short-Range Ballistic Missile
The DF-16 (Dong Feng-16; NATO reporting name: CSS-11) is a road-mobile, conventionally-armed, solid-fuelled short-range ballistic missile (SRBM) system developed and built by Sanjiang Space Group (Base...
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PLA’s aerial refuelling tanker fleet
Currently the PLA operates two dedicated aerial refuelling tanker aircraft: the Xian HY-6 and the Ukrainian IL-78. The HY-6 represents the very first steps taken by China in developing the aerial...
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PLA Navy commissions new spy ship
Kaiyangxing (pennant number 856), the PLA Navy’s new-generation electronic surveillance ship, was commissioned at Qingdao Naval Base on Tuesday, 10 January 2017. The ship joins the Combat Support...
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Type 001 aircraft carrier Liaoning
China purchased the unfinished ex-Soviet Navy aircraft carrier Varyag from Ukraine in 1998 and finally received the vessel in 2002. After some extensive refurbishments at the Dalian Shipyard in...
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PLA reorganises group armies and airborne corps
As part of its ongoing military restructuring programme, the Chinese People’s Liberation Army (PLA) is reorganising its 18 corps-sized group armies within its Ground Force into 13 new group armies...
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China’s ‘big jet’ takes the sky
The COMAC C919 passenger jet, China’s first indigenously-developed ‘big jet’, successfully completed its maiden test flight on 5 May 2017, marking the first major milestone in China’s effort to break...
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First indigenous Type 001A aircraft carrier launched at Dalian
On 26 April, China’s first indigenously-built Type 001A aircraft carrier was launched in northeast China’s Dalian Shipyard, a major milestone in the PLA Navy’s two-decade aircraft carrier programme....
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PLA Rocket Force test fires new missile in Bohai Sea
The PLA Rocket Force (PLARF) recently test fired a new-type missile in the eastern Bohai Sea, a spokesman of the Chinese Ministry of National Defence (MND) confirmed on Tuesday 9 May. In reply to media...
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Twin-seat FC-1B/JF-17B makes maiden flight
The twin-seat fighter-trainer variant of the Chengdu FC-1 Xiaolong successful completed its maiden flight on 27 April. The FC-1 Xiaolong, currently serving with the Pakistani Air Force (PAF) as the...
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Chengdu FC-1 Xiaolong / PAC JF-17 Thunder
Manufacturer designation: FC-1 Xiaolong PAF designation: Joint Fighter-17 (JF-17) Thunder Type: Multirole fighter Designer: Chengdu Aircraft Design Institute (611 Institute) Manufacturer: Chengdu...
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PLA Navy deploys KJ-500 to Hainan
The PLA Naval Air Force (PLANAF) has deployed two KJ-500 AEW&C aircraft to Hainan Island in southern China, to provide C4ISR support for Chinese naval and air operations in the disputed South China...
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Chengdu J-10
PLA designation: J-10 Export designation: FC-20 Type: Multirole fighter Designer: Chengdu Aircraft Design Institute (611 Institute) Manufacturer: Chengdu Aircraft Industry (Group) Corporation Ltd....
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Type 051 Luda Class
Seventeen Type 051 (NATO designation: Luda class) missile destroyers were built between 1970 and 1991 for the PLA Navy. The class was China’s first independently developed destroyer. Some hulls...
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Type 052 Luhu Class
Type 052 (NATO reporting name: Luhu class) is the PLA Navy’s first ‘true’ multirole missile destroyer. Utilising a mixture of Chinese- and Western-designed weapon systems and sensors, the destroyers...
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Type 051B Luhai Class
Type 051B (NATO reporting name: Luhai class) is the multirole missile destroyer commissioned by the PLA Navy in 1999, with only one hull ever constructed. The first-of-class DDG-167 Shenzhen was the...
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PLAAF Su-30 fighters intercept USAF nuclear sniffing plane
Two PLA Air Force (PLAAF) Su-30MKK Flanker-G fighters conducted an “unprofessional” intercept of a U.S. Air Force WC-135C Constant Phoenix radiation detection aircraft over the East China Sea on...
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Type 052B Luyang class
The PLA Navy received two Type 052B (NATO reporting name: Luyang class) multirole missile destroyers in 2004. Built by the Shanghai-based Jiangnan Shipyard (Group) Corporation, Type 052B is equipped...
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Harbin Z-19E makes maiden flight targeting export market
The Z-19E, an export version of the Chinese indigenous Z-19 helicopter gunship, completed its maiden flight in the north-eastern city of Harbin on Thursday 18 May. The basic variant Z-19, designed and...
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