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Baotou / parade square — The Type 100 that appeared on 3 September 2025 puts three crew in a hull capsule and the gun in an unmanned turret. That layout is why the vehicle is lighter than the Type 99 family, why a fire-support vehicle can share the same running gear, and why Baotou can […]
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As of 18 September 2026. Northern training area — On 16 September 2026, CCTV News broadcast live-fire footage of the Type 99B main battle tank: crews handling rounds inside the turret, tanks firing from the halt and on the move, including shots to the side and rear. A crew order in the clip called for […]
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As of 17 September 2026. Gulf of Aden / Bay of Bengal — On 14 September 2026 the Ministry of National Defense said the PLA Navy’s 48th escort task group had finished its Gulf of Aden mission and would visit Bangladesh, Myanmar and Malaysia on the way home. The group is the destroyer Tangshan, the […]
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Shanghai / Hudong-Zhonghua — The first two Type 054B frigates entered PLAN service in 2025 with a 32-cell bow vertical launch system. A hull still fitting out at Hudong-Zhonghua in Shanghai looks different. Commercial satellite imagery taken on 28 June 2026 by Vantor, and reported in August by the South China Morning Post, shows a […]
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Xi’an / Pacific approaches — In August 2026, a CCTV documentary marking the PLA’s 99th anniversary showed an H-6N bomber flying with a large air-launched ballistic missile that Chinese state media identified as the Jing Lei-1 (JL-1), with J-20 fighters in escort. The clip was later placed in a joint anti-ship exercise setting. It is […]
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