This past week, there was an article on People’s daily called China’s J-15 fighter superior to Russian Su-33 I had a couple of thoughts reading through it. My first thought…

One of the things that I’ve been really focusing on in the past few months is the recent dramatic expansion of China’s civilian maritime force. Much of this is caused…

In light of the recent entry by Galrahn on the issue of China’s expanded map, I want to just put my thoughts on this. I was originally thinking of writing…

With the recent induction of 056, a lot of comparison has been made between 056 and LCS. The comparisons are understandable. Both are just entering services. Both are expected to…

I did a little write up today for Type 056 and here it is. The first 056 class No. 582 was officially handed over to PLAN on the 25th of…

I was contacted recently about this article on YJ-8 series of anti-ship missiles. I read it and found it to be very well written on the proper designations of different…

We’ve known about this class for a while, but it has now been officially unveiled as shown in image below. For those who don’t know, this is the super class…

In the past week, there have been a lot of speculations regarding a deal where Russia would export 24 Su-35s and 4 Ladas to China. Now, there have been official…

Over the past 5 years, we can see the dramatic improvement in the hardware of Chinese navy from all of the really nice new ships that have come out. As…

In a surprise to many PLA followers, this news of China winning the Turkish Air Defense competition came out today. A lot of us had followed the competition, but thought…