On that day, Chinese state broadcaster CCTV showed a new episode of its documentary programme Focus Report…
Three years of patience and drip-feeding of information is about to be rewarded, with the launch of the first 055 class destroyer from Jiangnan Changxing shipyard…
By now, military analysts and pundits of all stripes and prejudices have become relatively familiar with CV-16 Liaoning, the Chinese Navy’s…
I haven’t made any updates to this website for quite a while, but now that the academic year is over I hope to make some more consistent contributions over the next few weeks and months.
The Chinese Air Force’s current standard Short Range Air to Air Missile is the PL-8, a license production version of the Israeli Python 3 missile. Upgrades to the PL-8 have kept it relatively competitive since its initial entry into…
When clear pictures confirmed the existence of the J-20 in early 2011, questions began to circulate challenging just “how stealthy” the J-20 actually was, with much of this scepticism originally directed from English language defence media and…
Since CAC prototype no. 2001 made its first flight on the 11th of January, 2011, the Chengdu J-20 has been a source of great speculation and discussion in the defence community and general media (Waldron, 2011). The emergence of…
The Chengdu Aircraft Company (CAC) J-20 5th generation stealth fighter made its first flight on 11th of January, 2011. Since then, the aircraft had come under immense scrutiny by Chinese military watchers, general military watchers, defence media, and…