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They alreay secured more than 800 orders and options. That mean COMAC will be busy making airplanes for at least next 15 years in full production rates. And China need more than 7,000 new commercial jets in the next 20 years.

If my memory holds, I think this new drydock belongs to another shipyard, namely Hudong Zhonghua 沪东中华. And most likely they will built type 076 at this site. Aicraft carrier 003 is built by Jiangnan Changxing shipyard 江南长兴. I expect them to continue using dry dock #3 for building future...

As a foreigner in China for nearly a decade in 2000s, the levels of corruption in Shenzhen that I personally witnessed made me wonder if it keep on going further, would PRC follows the fate of late Qing dynasty's collapse in 1900s? Then the anti-corruption actions changed my thoughts. And this...

I did not suggest gap difference of 700 tons between FREMM and USS Constellation and any implication of their difference. You wrote: Presumably the new Chinese Frigate (Type 057) be a good enough to keep up with the carrier battle groups. Will it match the capabilities of the USN’ new...

Comparing a 6,700 ton heavy frigate vs a 4,000 tons frigate is like comparing a 12,000 tons large destroyer vs a 8,000 tons destroyer.

1,500km, and 2,000km to 2,500km with aerial tanker support.

Tonight we celebrate. Federal Court upholds Najib’s conviction, ex-PM to go to jail PUTRAJAYA: The Federal Court has affirmed former prime minister Najib Razak’s conviction and sentence in the SRC International case. This means Najib, the Pekan MP, is set to begin serving his jail term...

According to Chinese Wikipedia, 8 ARJ-21 have been delivered this year. Total delivery up to 2022 July 29th is 74 aircraft.

And American billionnaire George Soros who is extreme right wing hawk.

https://www.msn.com/en-my/news/national/lcs-declassified-investigation-report-procurement-of-ships-may-cost-govt-rm11-145b/ar-AA10KsBj?ocid=msedgntp&cvid=5da0d2aec425498f976c054c061dcc7e After paying out US dollar 1.5 BILLION, not a single ship has been delivered. After the world famous 1MDB...

What Mahathir said is true. I still remember that after acquired the FA-18D in 1997, and during a marine strike training exercise, Malaysian airforce pilots were puzzled that they could not lock on surface targets at sea with the targeting radar from their FA-18D. After investigation, they...

Hong Kong is over-populated. Good to know there is a drop in total number of residents. This will put less pressure on housing, in terms of availability of living space and rocket high prices.

Because Taiwan (with all its army/police etc) is the last renmant of Republic of China that has yet surrendered to People's Republic of China since the Chinese civil war of 1949. Regardless of whether it is PRC, ROC, Qing, Ming etc. By whatever anme that they borne, they are all China.

Wow! China Collapse!!! China has been collapsing every years for last 20 years!!! Mr. G Chang where are you???

These are for special forces raids on enemy's strategic positions, especially at night. They kept on flying on safe descinding rates with engines switched off, thus maintaining silence approach to enemy positions across Taiwan straits and surrounding small islands, to achieve surprise attacks...

Weather shelter with temperature control (i.e. air conditioned), to ensure extremely tight tolerance between metal parts are adhered to during fitting of catapults.

Idealy, Z19/UAV should do a scouting round in the operation area to assess danger level on a day or a few hours before Z20 flew, and Z20 are to be escorted by Z10/Z19 or long endurance recon/attack drone. All these assets are available within a combined brigade itself.

The J10CY with Russian AL-31FN engine may be is due to logistic consideration. Since the August 1st acrobacics flying team is equiped with J10AY and J10SY with AL-31FN, any new aircraft inducted into the team should be equiped with the same engine. They could equiped J10CY from existing stock...

Meanwhile from CNBC on USA GDP... The Atlanta Fed’s GDPNow gauge sees the second-quarter running at negative 2.1%. Coupled with the first-quarter’s decline of 1.6%, that would fit the technical definition of recession...

J10C is a multi-role fighter jet. You don't see much of the A-G weapon configuration is because Chinese airforce have more than 800 in total of J16, JH7A dedicated strike jets and H6 bombers for air to ground strike roles, J10A/B/C (and J20) are primary used in air-superiority in PLAAF...