China's aerospace industry
This past week was a huge week for the Chinese aerospace industry. In the past, I’ve always criticized the slow development, low production and inefficiency of the aviation firms in…
Project 17A of Indian Navy
I read this piece of news a few days ago and found it shocking. Here is the article: India has cleared its largest ever indigenous defence contract worth Rs 45,000…
Military cooperations with China & Russia
There was a huge lull in military trades between China and Russia around 2007 to 2008, because of their disagreements over IL-76s contract. Russia wanted more money after the contract…
Top 20 list
Since I’ve followed PLA really closely for the past 4 or 5 years, I’ve decided to compile a list of the top 20 systems that joined service in the past…
China and Russia naval drill
In the last couple of days, the PLAN and RuN fleets held a naval drill next to the Gulf of Aden. You can actually see a video of it here.…
Aerospace Engine situation with the big transport
As you guys all know, the biggest problem that PLAAF have always had is the lack of high performing engine series. J-10 still relies on AL-31FN. We didn’t see any…
New Chinese naval flotilla to Aden
It’s set, they are sending another Flotilla to Aden to replace 529 and 530 according to this article. This is the 4th task force to Aden. ZHOUSHAN, Zhejiang Province, Oct.…
The state of China/Russia military cooperation
Today, I read this article by a Russian paper regarding the military cooperation between China and Russia. I think it really does a great job of explaining why there haven’t…
US/China relations + PLA transparency
I just have some random thoughts from the last couple of days with Obama’s visit to Asia and all the news releases with PLAAF’s 60th anniversary. There have been a…
Why we should cheer for Copenhagen and fight to protect Earth
As many of you have heard by now, there was an eleventh hour deal between US and the major emerging economies like China, India, Brazil and South Africa when I…