Friday, February 21, 2025

Photo of the day:

Pulse-Doppler fire control radar maintenance of a JH-7A fighter-bomber, also JL-10AG flat panel crack antenna

 


 

Monday, February 17, 2025

Photo of the day: Y-20B landing

Friday, October 04, 2024

High Res Photos Of The Day: Y-20B prototype 7812 with Shenyang WS-20 Turbofan, replacing Turbojet of Y-20 / A veriants

 





Saturday, March 14, 2015

Photo of the day: IL76 with WS-20 tubofan engine

While the pair of  Xian Y-20 prototypes are  powered by 4 Russian Soloviev D-30 turbofan engines each, it is clear that the Chinese prefer to "buy local" and have started on a domestic power-plant solution called the WS-20.

It is ironic isn't  it?  Testing D-30's replacement on a Chinese operated IL-76.


 

 

Friday, February 14, 2025

A collection of QCQ171 photos, the new Chinese 9×submachine gun (SMG), a replacement of Type79

And a new 30 round manazine

 













Sunday, December 13, 2020

CS/LS7 9×19mm parabellum submachine gun in service with the Xinjiang PAP

Details on the CS/LS7 9×19mm (here), more evidence suggesting China is moving away from 9×18mm Makarov for their submachine "policing use cases"




Monday, May 28, 2018

JH16-1, China's new 9×19mm parabellum submachine gun

In a May23rd (link here), Guangdong SWAT drill, they fielded the new JH16-1 9×19mm Parabellum submachine gun which was revealed last year.

JH16-1 by Hubei Jianghua Machinery Co or Factory 9616 before it was transferred as a civilian company in 2002, fires 9×19mm Parabellum but can be adapted to different calibers for export.

Weighting in 2.8 kg and with a rate of fire around 800/minute to effective firing range of 200 meters.  JH16-1 is heavier and slower than the traditional Type79 SWAP submachine gun (1.75kg and 1000 rounds per minutes) but they in the same category over all.   Type79 fires 7.62×25 mm Tokarev.



 9×19mm Parabellum
 JH16-1 and Type 79 together


Pics from the May23rd drill




Other pics from the same SWAT drill




Thursday, February 13, 2025

Wow, a LSM-1-class ship in China

Following WWII, the US transferred 12 LSM-1 (Landing Ship Medium (Transport) (link) to the KMT/Nationalist, and several of them were captured by the PLA during the Chinese civil war of 1949. 

Well, well, well,  one of them is still surviving is still around in Chengdu, here are some pictures of her.








Tuesday, February 11, 2025

Friday, January 24, 2025

福 or fu is "good fortune" in English, also a greeting for Chinese new year. Happy Chinese New Year!

 It also happened to be the 1st of two words for PLAN CV18 Fujian.   Nice word play there PLAN PR Department.