The Chinese navy has undergone an unprecedented buildup over the last decade. It has deployed an aircraft carrier, launched and recovered airplanes from a carrier flight deck, sent new nuclear submarines to sea and even changed its name from the unwieldy "People's Liberation Army Navy" to...
In the past 20 years, the United States has spent trillions of dollars to create and deploy the world's best military technology. It also has enacted laws and regulations aimed at keeping that technology away from potential adversaries such as Iran, North Korea and the nation that poses perhaps...
China has achieved another breakthrough in its ambitious space program with the development of the Yuegong-1, a lab that simulates the cultivation of plants and micro-organisms on the moon, reports Hong Kong newspaper Wen Wei Po.
The Yuegong — which means "Moon Palace" in Chinese — is one of...
Can maglev propulsion from maglev trains magnetic levitation used to launch aircraft from carriers ?
Chinese developed maglev trains
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Shanghai Maglev train. It is the first commercially operated high-speed magnetic levitation line in the world
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China has recruited six aquanaut cadets, including two women, as a reserve force for its future submersible missions, the State Oceanic Administration (SOA) announced on Tuesday.
The newly recruited cadets, who are between the ages of 23 and 28, have been selected from candidates across the...
China opens space teleoperation center
China's first center designed for teleoperation, or operation from a distance, of deep space missions was formally opened at the Beijing Aerospace Control Center (BACC) following its successful trial use on the country's first moon rover early on Sunday...
Taiwan's Ministry of Foreign Affairs said on Friday it was regrettable that Japan's Foreign Ministry has now posted a propaganda video on the disputed Diaoyutai Islands (known as Senkaku in Japan and as Diaoyu in China) on its website, available in several languages, and urged Tokyo to handle...
The Dong-Feng 21D, said to be the People's Liberation Army Navy's supersonic anti-ship ballistic missile, would present difficulties to any US carrier battle group if conflict between China and the United States were ever to break out in the West Pacific, according to the Moscow-based Russian...
President Ma Ying-jeou attends the official ceremony in Tainan
to mark the delivery of the aircraft on Friday.
The Republic of China Army demonstrated the capabilities of its six newly acquired AH-64E Apache attack helicopters Friday at an official ceremony in southern Taiwan to mark the...
China ready to land robot rover on Moon
The Jade Rabbit, seen in this artist's impression, will be the first wheeled vehicle on the Moon since the 1970s
China is set to land a robotic rover on the surface of the Moon, a major step in the Asian superpower's ambitious programme of space...
China's first lunar probe to land on the moon this weekend
China's first lunar rover is expected to land on the moon on Saturday, less than two weeks after it blasted off from Earth, according to Chinese media reports.
The landing will make China one of only three nations -- after the United...