Asia Looks Seaward
and equipment. Efforts are being made to improve maritime battlefield capabilities, with emphasis on the construction of relevan ...
last year....’’^21 Jiang justified Beijing’s largest military spending raise since the 19.4 percent augmentation from 2002 by st ...
6,000 nautical miles at 7 kt (with snorkeling). Undersea weaponry is a major priority for the PLAN. Accordingly, the new submari ...
power should it choose to do so. ONI’s Scott Bray states that while the 094 ‘‘will provide China with a modern and robust sea-ba ...
PLAN strategists contend that sea mines are ‘‘easy to lay and difficult to sweep; their concealment potential is strong;their de ...
(sea lines of communication) in the western Pacific area. Indeed, sea mines, used to complement a variety of other capabilities, ...
At 154 meters long and displacing 6,500 tons, the two Type 052BLuyang I- class multi-role missile destroyers commissioned in 200 ...
four hulls of this high-speed (perhaps 45 knots), wave-piercing catamaran, which boasts several features intended to help it eva ...
the Type 071 as ‘‘the PLAN’s largest indigenously designed combat ship to date.’’^49 PLANAF The PLAAF (PLA Air Force) and PLANAF ...
test bed for China’s indigenous WS-10A turbofan engine, and perhaps for the associated, indigenously built radar and fire contro ...
on previous efforts that derived from modified Ilyushin Il-76 and Tupolev Tu-154 variants.^69 It purchased A-50 AWACS (airborne ...
China’s reconnaissance UAVs include Guizhou Aircraft Industry Corporation’s new-generation WZ-9 (WZ-2000); BUAA’s (Beijing Unive ...
Chinaisfieldinganumberofnewstrategic nuclear systems. An upgraded version of China’s DF-5 liquid-fueled ICBM (intercontinental b ...
The combination of range and lethality offered by these missiles has tremendous ramifications for any battle for air superiority ...
China produces increasingly sophisticated microsatellites weighing 10–100 kg, far less than the average satellite. They potentia ...
Beijing previously sought substantial access to Europe’s nascent Galileo system,^109 which Chinese analysts have scrutinized.^11 ...
continues to rise, its aerospace capacities are likely to rise with it, with significant implications for Beijing’s ability to i ...
become a centerpiece of PLAN diplomacy, humanitarian operations, and disaster relief. A small but determined collection of PLA l ...
improvements in ASW, for instance, any PLAN carrier would be an easy target for competently manned diesel-electric or nuclear-po ...
divisions with twenty-seven regiments;^126 8,000–10,000 marines (whose num- ber can reach 28,000 in wartime); and 28,000 coastal ...
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