Most recent pictures of the China-made islands on the South China Sea. A pure engineering miracle

[GS Zhou]

Any weapons on the island yet?

I'm not sure about the exact details. But in my view, a radar array like the following is FAR MORE important than any visible missiles or artillery.

 

[Jlaw]

Hopefully VN could attack us first and fight with us.
VN has taken too many islands of China.
This is my wish of new year.

China should be proactive in this case and take the Chinese islands back from Vietnam

 

[Daniel808]

Hopefully VN could attack us first and fight with us.
VN has taken too many islands of China.
This is my wish of new year.

Yes, We beat them in 1974 and again in 1988.

Hope they do something stupid toward Chinese in South China Sea, and expect The Most Powerful Modern Naval Forces in the East come to burn their home.

 

[Viet]

If US knew that China is capable to come up with such achievements, it would never want to provoke and instigate South East Nations against Chine, we have well applied the concept

Crisis = Opportunity

and we're permanently settle in SCS once for good



I was laughing each time when US navy set sail with 12 miles of our islands, Americans people had to shoulder the expensive bill of sending their Navy just to have few minute visit of our Islands while we're there 24/7 and 365 days.

Not really a engineering miracle if you ask me, more a thing by creating lands by sands. Actually every country can do if it has or can buy the expertise and machines. Wait some times. We will create 100 more islands at sea.

 

[Jlaw]

Yes, We beat them in 1974 and again in 1988.

Hope they do something stupid toward Chinese in South China Sea, and expect The Most Powerful Modern Naval Forces in the East come to burn their home.

It was a decade of live fighting training for new Chinese recruits after 1979.

 

[帅的一匹]

Not really a engineering miracle if you ask me, more a thing by creating lands by sands. Actually every country can do if it has or can buy the expertise and machines. Wait some times. We will create 100 more islands at sea.

Our islands won't be washed away

 

[Viet]

Yes, We beat them in 1974 and again in 1988.

Hope they do something stupid toward Chinese in South China Sea, and expect The Most Powerful Modern Naval Forces in the East come to burn their home.

Desperately thinking how to invent a pretext to start a war?

If I was you I would rather spend more times thinking how to take back the Senkakus from the Japanese occupation. We once annihilated Chinese naval fleets with more than 1,000 ships combined when they attacked us in the South China Sea. You can only win against VN when we are in trouble at home.

Pdf is apparently a place when young chinese come to m...

 

[Figaro]

Not really a engineering miracle if you ask me, more a thing by creating lands by sands. Actually every country can do if it has or can buy the expertise and machines. Wait some times. We will create 100 more islands at sea.

That’s both physically, economically, politically, and technologically impossible for Vietnam to do ... for every island it builds, China will counter them with 10. Not a wise investment ... seeking engagement would be smarter. Especially when Vietnam is heavily dependent

 

[cirr]

China's real-time global ocean observation network established

2018-02-07 10:58 Xinhua Editor: Mo Hong'e

Chinese research vessel Kexue, or Science, recently placed the 400th profiling float in the northwest Pacific Ocean since the country joined the forefront ocean monitoring plan Argo in 2002.

It signals the establishment of the first global real-time ocean observation network in China, according to China Science Daily.

So far the network covers regions in the northwest Pacific Ocean, the mid and north Indian Ocean, and the South China Sea along the 21st Century Maritime Silk Road, a co-operational initiative proposed by China.

Argo is an international maritime plan committed to continuously monitoring the temperature, salinity, and velocity of the upper ocean via float array, in order to tackle climate change and enhance ocean-atmosphere forecasting.

China was the ninth country to join the revolutionary plan in ocean observation, following countries like the United States, France, and Japan.

During the past 16 years, China has become a crucial member of Argo, has built and maintained the 100-float-unit Argo ocean observing network, with 204 active floats at its peak, and collected more than 1.8 million pieces of observational data.

The China Argo Real-time Data Center is the hub of data transmission and management. As well as data sharing with other Argo partners across the world, it is also able to exchange its data with the World Meteorological Organization members within 24 hours.

China is building an ocean monitoring network consisting of 100 to 150 floats in the Pacific and the Indian ocean regions to advance its ocean research, development, and management.

In the future, China will deploy more floats equipped with the self-developed BeiDou Navigation Satellite System, China Science Daily said.

This will alter the dominance in satellite float technology by several Western countries, and allow China to build a more independent ocean observation network along the Maritime Silk Road as well as provide more maritime public goods.

http://www.ecns.cn/2018/02-07/291821.shtml

 

[Dungeness]

I'm not sure about the exact details. But in my view, a radar array like the following is FAR MORE important than any visible missiles or artillery.
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It looks like a mushroom farm and gives me goosebumps! What do Chinese need so many radars for?

 

[TaiShang]

So after all those noises about "not letting China build any more islands or military facilities in the SCS"... what happened?

The American government took their people for a ride, they never had any intention of stopping China's construction in the SCS.

The US also badly fooled certain SEA countries that had put big hopes on the US. Rather, the US gave China the perfect opportunity to near-complete SCS build-up for further action, which would not have been quite possible had it not been for that artificially created Kangaroo arbitration case from 2013 till 2016.

There was so much noise that it covered the sound of dredgers China sent to build massive landscapes.

Aquino saw this and tried desperately to save what was left of PH's relative advantages but it was too late I guess, Nonetheless, he has been rewarded with good neighbourhood and investment.

Amazingly, China completed a huge military build-up and now close to signing an ASEAN COC. One stone, two birds.

 

[Cybernetics]

It looks like a mushroom farm and gives me goosebumps! What do Chinese need so many radars for?

Some are likely satellite communication devices. It has many functions: controlling satellites, intercepting signals, tracking and communications. It could also have other direct warfare capabilities Chinese scientists are working on but I'm not sure if that technology is mature yet.

• It's part of a surveillance network for monitoring communications. Civilian and military communications in the region can be intercepted. It is also used for regular communications networks.
• Communication with satellites
• China is building a sensor network in SCS among many other data intensive systems, this data needs to be transmitted. It can be done through satellite and/or physical cables.
• Acquire telemetry from objects in air and space (air traffic control, missile defence, satellite tracking etc)
• Operations in SCS region can be supported through these communication devices. China is moving towards a network eccentric warfare system along side 军民融合/Military-Civilian integration initiatives. One project it will support is the drone network for logistics, surveillance, and strike, among others.

One problem with this location is the small safe radius it has. If the signals are not highly focused, it can be intercepted by others. Unless other measures are taken.

US has facilities like this around the world.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Misawa_Air_Base
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pine_Gap
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ECHELON

 

[Martian2]

It looks like a mushroom farm and gives me goosebumps! What do Chinese need so many radars for?

I think the numerous radars are looking at different radar wavelengths.

Combined, you have radar multi-spectrum coverage.

Notice the different antenna lengths on the chart below.

 

[GS Zhou]

It looks like a mushroom farm and gives me goosebumps! What do Chinese need so many radars for?

What hidden inside the "mushroom", an example.

An additional picture, quite old, at least one-decade, showing the radar installing on an island in the South China Sea.

The radars shown were both developed by the 14th institution of CETC (China Electronics Technology Corp.)

 

[ZeEa5KPul]

I'm not sure about the exact details. But in my view, a radar array like the following is FAR MORE important than any visible missiles or artillery.
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D*mn, that's a lot of radomes!

Desperately thinking how to invent a pretext to start a war?

It's difficult not to. You're so weak yet so annoying and obnoxious that you would try the patience of a saint. You need to get your bell rung. Maybe China should take a page from America's playbook and apply the bug-spray