people's liberation army navy

As someone who followed the various published Western assessments of Soviet Military Power avidly throughout the Cold War I am all too aware of the risks in such evaluation. As various Chinese capabilities are asserted regularly in a range of threads I think it would be timely to discuss the...

https://navalpost.com/china-type-052d-destroyer-suzhou-132/ From back in March, via the Wikipedia entry on the Type 052D family: https://www.janes.com/defence-news/news-detail/more-stretched-type-052d-destroyers-join-the-pla-navy...

From; Авиаколлекция 2010 № 8. Штурмовик Q-5 (A-5)

The growth of the Soviet Navy was symbolised by Admiral Gorshkov and a global maritime exercise (Okean 70). I was wondering if any clue was emerging to Chinese naval doctrine?

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The project started in 1958 and ended in 1960. There was no prototype, only a fourteen-meter long test ship（Lead-acid batteries，speed 9 knot） Planned displacement 400~500 tons，four torpedo tube，speed 25knot with zinc-silver battery and deltaic diesel engine China built a new 032 submarine in...

Hi! Here is an unbuilt early design of Type 054 frigate. Using 3K95 Klinok short range surface to air missile.

http://www.tboverse.us/HPCAFORUM/phpBB3/viewtopic.php?f=6&t=24028&sid=b7e24d3d66bb62445c21929f8886c97e https://www.janes.com/article/83201/aad-2018-csoc-reveals-details-of-armed-usv-concept

"Will China's Next-Generation Supply Ship be Nuclear-Powered?" "On September 6, 2018, China’s comprehensive supply ship Hongzehu (Hull 881) was honorably retired, marking that the Chinese Navy has entered a new era of modernization. With its retirement, perhaps the country’s next-generation...

Several images have surfaced (of which this is one) from Shanghai CSSC shipyard. Images show what appears to be a large module of a possible aircraft carrier. Said shipyard was rumored to have started building China's next carrier, first Catobar one, since a few years ago.

"China has opened the bid to construct its first nuclear-powered icebreaker support ship, a move to prepare for the construction of a nuclear-powered aircraft carrier, military observers said. China National Nuclear Corporation on Thursday opened public bidding for the nuclear-powered...

A PLAN destroyer, 173 Changsha , of Type 052D , broke down in the Indian Ocean on the way to the Sino-Russian naval exercise "Joint Sea 2017". She is one of China's latest destroyers Another destroyer, the 174 Hefei, of the same class has replaced it. Destroyer 173 Changsha , frigate 571...

Lots of chatter over the last few days about a newly revealed Chinese R&D project that may be moving ahead for a semi-submersible high speed arsenal ship.

Finally a model of China's new LHD project, the Type 075. Said to displace 36,000 tonnes and operate 28 helicopters, under construction at Shanghai' Hudong-Zhonghua shipyards since late 2016.

IDEX 2017: Chinese Navy to acquire new trimaran hull frigate Richard D Fisher Jr, Abu Dhabi - IHS Jane's Defence Weekly 21 February 2017 Source: http://www.janes.com/article/67930/idex-2017-chinese-navy-to-acquire-new-trimaran-hull-frigate

Found some weeks ago at the same testsite at Wuhan, where also the Liaoning and other ships EW's systems were tested ... Now a few more interesting high-resolution photos from that new Chinese DDG ... said to be a test-stand for the Type 055 DDG: Since ships are really...

Hi, here is a Chinese amphibian flying boat aircraft,the AVIC TA-600 or AG600. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AVIC_TA-600

Published on Aug 7, 2015 2015 People's Liberation Army Navy (PLAN or Chinese Navy) official recruitment video. The video shows a large part of the vessels, planes and equipment currently deployed in China's PLAN inventory. https://youtu.be/c-yGcCq1H5Y

"China submarines outnumber U.S. fleet: U.S. admiral" Source: http://news.yahoo.com/china-submarines-outnumber-u-fleet-u-admiral-231854613--finance.html

This thing looks like a modern re-interpretation of the WWII Mulberry Harbor. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mulberry_harbour In this case, the harbor can go wherever you go and doesn't tie you to a politically undesirable piece of land or force you to defend your supplies (from hungry mobs)...