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CV-16 Liaoning (50~60,000 tons) 3 x Type 054A Frigate (4000 tons ea.) 2 x Type 051C (7100 tons ea.) 1 x Type 052C (7000 tons ea.) 1 x Type 071 LPD (17,000 tons ea.) 3 x Type 093G SSN (Unknown tonnage) That's a 103,000 tons minimum CSG. Once operational the Liaoning is expected to host approx...

Chinese frigate Yan Cheng set out on Tuesday for the Mediterranean to escort maritime transportation of Syria's chemical weapons, a Foreign Ministry spokesman said on Thursday. Spokesman Qin Gang told a regular press briefing that the Yan Cheng is currently sailing through the Suez Canal. He...

The delivery of one of the 12 P-3C submarine-hunting aircraft from the United States is behind schedule due to a malfunction in its flight control system, a ROC Air Force official confirmed Thursday. ROC received the first P-3C aircraft last September, and three more were scheduled to be...

Second batch of Apaches arrive in Taiwan Six AH-64E Apache attack helicopters arrived in Taiwan on schedule Thursday, the second batch in a 30-helicopter deal with the United States. The US-made aircraft were shipped to a harbor in the southern city of Kaohsiung, from which they will be...

The Economist published their GDP list for 2013 Here is their list of the top economies in the world (actually they published per capita GDP and per capita GDP PPP and population.) The total GDP and ranking was calculated from those numbers. China, India and Indonesia will have their GDP...

Republic of China Air Force will showcase its new and improved Indigenous Defense Fighters (IDF) Jan. 16, when the Ching-kuo fighter jets will be armed with locally developed Wan Chien weapons systems, the Air Force said Tuesday. Seventy-one out of more than 120 on-duty IDFs saw upgrades by the...

Taiwan to receive six more Apache choppers Thursday A second batch of six AH-64E Apache attack helicopters will arrive in Taiwan on Thursday as scheduled, a military source said Wednesday. The US-made helicopters will be shipped to a harbor in the southern city of Kaohsiung and later sent to...

J-20 is huge. The nippon fighter looks like a midget. :-)

Chang'e 3 landed on Mare Imbrium (Sea of Rains) just east of a 450 m diameter impact crater on 14 December 2013. Soon after landing, a small rover named Yutu (or Jade Rabbit in English) was deployed and took its first tentative drive onto the airless regolith. At the time of the landing LRO's...

4th Prototype of J-20 Mighty Dragon 5th Generation Stealth Fighter Takes off

China's large passenger aircraft ready for assembly in 2014 The Iron Cird, a plane-like fuselage simulator, will mainly test the flying controls, hydraulic pressure and undercarriage systems of the C919 jet. The inauguration of the testing platform for the large passenger aircraft C919...

J-20 stealth fighter fit with air refueling probe: eyewitness An image drawn by a Chinese internet user who claims to have seen the third prototype of the Chengdu J-20 first hand shows that the nation's first stealth fighter is likely to be designed with an external air refueling probe...

Zubr-class LCAC gives PLA quick access to disputed islands After the Zubr-class air-cushioned landing craft was commissioned by the People's Liberation Army Navy, Shenzhen Television reports that China will be able to deploy its troops to the disputed Diaoyutai or Diaoyu Islands...

The United States and China are in a heated race to invent the first cloaking device that would make airplanes invisible to the naked eye and undetectable by radar, reports this week show. One of those countries, China, has funded more than 40 research teams for the past three years to develop...

Beijing “floods the zone with buyers” for smuggled American military gear, leading to a 50 percent spike in arms trafficking cases since 2010, Reuters has found. In its quest to bypass embargoes and obtain the latest U.S. military technology, China isn’t only relying on a cadre of carefully...

China overtook the United Kingdom last year as the country that received the most scrutiny of its US investments, according to the US government. The Committee on Foreign Investment in the US (CFIUS) is charged with reviewing mergers, acquisitions, and other transactions where a foreign entity...

The People’s Liberation Army Air Force has undergone sweeping changes in the last 20 years. Like the Chinese Navy, the PLAAF changed its name to simply “Chinese Air Force.” The introduction of fourth-generation fighters, bombers, unmanned aircraft and advanced cruise missiles has transformed the...

If there's been one consistent theme running through the revelations provided by NSA leaker Edward Snowden, it's that the gulf between what the U.S. says on the global stage and what it does in practice is anywhere from huge to cavernous. None of this is particularly troubling in and of itself...