China-defense

p.p1 {margin: 0.0px 0.0px 12.0px 0.0px; font: 15.0px 'Ginto Copilot Variable'; color: #26221f}span.s1 {letter-spacing: 0.1px} Back on May 25th, photos surfaced of several Type 59D / ZTZ‑59D main battle tanks being loaded up for export. And because this is the land of the Forever Type 59, naturally everyone started asking the same question: Alright, who’s buying these things no...

The PLAAF’s 1st Aviation Brigade, under the Northern Theater Command Air Force, is one of those units that has been “elite” for so long it no longer needs to say it out loud. Its lineage runs straight back to 19 June 1950, when it stood up as the 4th Mixed Brigade and promptly became the first PLAAF unit to see combat in the Korean War. Not a bad opening act. But the 1st hasn’t ...

 They are now found on PLAN's latest landing / amphibious assault ships (071/075/076)  Friday, May 08, 2026 Video Of The Day: China's new twin waterjet-powered Landing Craft Mechanized (LCM) in motion  Sunday, November 09, 2025 So, China now has a new class of landing craft mechanized (LCM) The People’s

China’s AWAC fleet has been expanding fast enough that even the public domain can barely keep up, and now we’ve got another one to add to the collection. The KJ‑700 program first surfaced last year with a pair of SLARs — AESA panels mounted behind each wing. The latest variant spotted online now carries four SLAR arrays, with two additional panels mounted ahead of the wings.In o...

Watching the recent China–Mongolia joint training exercise, Steppe Partner 2026, where heavy armor charges around like the final episode of "Dunk and Egg,"got me thinking about the latest round of YouTube‑and‑Twitter silliness. You know the drill: “This U.S. Armored Division could/would/should take on that specific PLA combined‑arms brigade(s) on open plains.”  The fantasy‑...