Export of Yuan Submarine
Very recently, an article from Bangkok Post broke the news that China has own the competition to supply 3 submarines to Bangkok Navy. While this is China’s third export deal…
Update to the Chinese carrier project
I have not made much updates recently due to travel and busy work schedule, but I did see this picture today which was really interesting. Edited: It turns out the…
Update on Chinese Navy: MLP and Zubr
Most recently, a new amphibious type of ship entered service with Chinese navy that looks to be similar to US’s Mobile Landing Platform. You can see it from the picture…
Victory Parade and Chinese politics
Most recently, China had a Victory parade to celebrate the 70th anniversary of war against Japan. As part of this parade, China rolled out its latest ballistic missiles, cruise missiles,…
My thoughts on COMAC C919
Most recently, COMAC (Commercial Aircraft Corp. of China) rolled out the first C919 off the assembly line to eagerly awaiting media. The question as we go forward is how successful…
J-20 and more thoughts on 5th generation projects
Most recently, a 7th prototype of J-20 project (No. 2016) appeared and made its maiden flight on September 18th. It’s been 9 months since the last prototype had come out,…
More on Yuan submarine.
Recently, I saw a good article that Chris Carlson posted on USNI regarding Yuan Submarine. Although I have not attempted to do any GE measurement of Yuan that I had…
ASBM program and Su-35 export
I came across a really well down book by Andrew Erickson on China’s ASBM development. The book can be found here. It was written by 2013, but most of the…
052C radar + Aeroengine development
Since the Lunar New Year break started, not much significant news have happened, but there were a couple of story lines in the past month that caught my attention. The…
J-20 and geopolitical implications.
The J-20 project has made some significant progress in the past 2 years with the roll out of prototypes 2011 to 2017 to accelerate the flights testing and development of…