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The Chinese Navy’s Most Powerful Attack Submarine: The Type-093A
Submarine expert H I Sutton takes a close look at China’s Type 093A class submarine and explains what makes it the most powerful attack submarine…
15 November 2020
Submarine expert H I Sutton takes a close look at China’s Type 093A class submarine and explains what makes it the most powerful attack submarine…
A candid photograph posted on Chinese social media sheds light on a Chinese project to develop a drone-ship similar to the U.S. Navy’s Sea Hunter. The trimaran is remarkably similar to the Sea Hunter in almost every respect.
The Chinese Navy’s newest amphibious warfare asset, the Type-075 LHD (Landing Helicopter Dock) is setting sail for the first time.
China’s first domestically built aircraft carrier, “Shandong” (penant number 17), was delivered and commissioned today in to the People’s Liberation Army Navy (PLAN or Chinese navy) in Sanya, South China’s Hainan Province.
Since 2012, Chinese shipyards have launched 60 Type 056 corvettes and 20 Type 052D destroyers, illustrating once again the incredibly fast growing pace of the People’s Liberation Army Navy (PLAN or Chinese Navy).
Following over a year of work and dock trials at the Wuchang Shipyard, the old landing ship 936 Haiyangshan, transformed into a floating test rig for the Chinese Navy’s new Railgun, descended from the Blue River for to reach the open sea by the end of 2018.
Recent aerial pictures of Jiangnan shipyard are doing the rounds on social media: They show no less than 15 destroyers and 1 aircraft carrier at various stage of construction.
For the first time ever, two People’s Liberation Army Navy (PLAN or Chinese Navy) aircraft carriers got underway and were at sea, at the same time. This took place on February 27, 2019.
China’s Liaoning aircraft carrier returned on a new sea trial on Monday after more than half a year’s maintenance and modification, our colleagues from East Pendulum unveiled yesterday.
