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One example of new Chinese military technology is the DF-21D anti-ship ballistic missile which reportedly has contributed to a quick and major change in US naval strategy. [159] China is developing anti-satellite weapons and plans to make the navigational Beidou system global by 2020. [ 160 ]
Type 90 – 30×130 mm. Type 82 artillery (on a Yanan SX250 6×6 truck) – 30 tube 130 mm multiple rocket launcher replacing the 19 tube 130 mm multiple rocket launcher of the Type 70 (on a YW 531C) and Type 63 (on a 4×4 truck) Type 90 – 40 × 122 mm rockets. Type 81 – 40 × 122 mm rockets. Type 82 – 130 × 130 mm rockets.
The defense spending of China was estimated, in the mid-range estimate, to be 38 billion dollars or 2.3% of China's GDP in 2003. The official figure was 22.4 billion dollars. Nevertheless, Chinese military spending doubled between 1997 and 2003, nearly reaching the level of the United Kingdom and Japan, and it continued to grow over 10% ...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The United States on Wednesday added more than a dozen Chinese companies to a list created by the Defense Department to highlight firms it says are allegedly working with ...
Developed from. Shenyang J-11. The Shenyang J-16 Hidden Dragon ( Chinese: 歼-16 潜龙, Pīnyīn: Jiān-16 Qián Lóng; NATO reporting name: Flanker-N[ 2]) is a Chinese 4.5 generation, [ 3] tandem-seat, twinjet, multirole strike fighter [ 4][ 1] built by Shenyang Aircraft Corporation and operated by the People's Liberation Army Air Force ...
Last month, he convened the military top brass for a political-work conference in Yan’an, a sacred site of Chinese Communist revolution in party history, calling for a deepening of political ...
The People's Liberation Army Rocket Force, [a] formerly the Second Artillery Corps, [b] is the strategic and tactical missile force of the People's Republic of China. The PLARF is the 4th branch of the People's Liberation Army (PLA) and controls China's arsenal of land-based ballistic, hypersonic, cruise missiles—both nuclear and conventional.
Chinese radar installed on an Ilyushin Il-76 airframe: Tanker; Xian Y-20: China Aerial refueling: YY-20: 7 [3] Ilyushin Il-78: Soviet Union Aerial refueling: Il-78MP: 3 [3] Transport; Xian Y-7: China Soviet Union Transport: 48 [3] License built variant of the Antonov An-24: Shaanxi Y-8: China Soviet Union Tactical airlifter: 80 [3] License ...