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Reportage sur le départ de la 19ème flottille d'escorte anti-piraterie chinoise.



Une introduction des 3 navires de la flottille. Les 2 frégates de Type 054A viennent de la flotte du Nord.



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Le site du Ministère thaïlandais de la défense donne des détails très intéressants sur le missile Mer-Mer chinois C-802A.

http://www.ordn.navy.mi.th/firecontrol/ ... HARAC.html

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[Palmier Dattier]

Effectivement. Presque impossible à contrer avec une recherche radar intermittente.

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Le lancement mystérieux du 2 Décembre 2014 au centre de lancement TSLC serait, selon les Américains, un nouvel essai d'un engin hypersonique Boost-Glide.

C'est le 3ème en 2014.

China Conducts Third Flight Test of Hypersonic Strike Vehicle

Missile-launched Wu-14 glide vehicle designed for nuclear strike against U.S. through missile defenses

BY: Bill Gertz
December 4, 2014 5:00 am

China conducted the third flight test of a new hypersonic missile this week as part of its strategic nuclear program and efforts to develop delivery vehicles capable of defeating U.S. countermeasures, defense officials said.

The flight test of the developmental Wu-14 hypersonic glide vehicle was monitored by U.S. intelligence agencies Tuesday during a flight test in western China.

The latest flight test followed earlier tests of the Wu-14 on Jan. 9 and Aug. 7. The three tests indicate that China’s development of a strike vehicle capable of traveling up to eight times the speed of sound is a high-priority element in China’s large-scale military buildup.

A Pentagon spokesman confirmed the test but declined to provide details.

“We are aware of reports regarding this test and we routinely monitor foreign defense activities,” Marine Corps Lt. Col. Jeff Pool told the Washington Free Beacon.

“However, we don’t comment on our intelligence or assessments of foreign weapon systems,” Pool added, noting that the Pentagon has encouraged China to adopt greater openness with regard to its defense investments and military objectives “to avoid miscalculation.”

Last month in Beijing, the United States and China agreed to a new military accord that called for notifying each country of major military activities. It could not be learned if the Chinese notified the Pentagon in advance of the Wu-14 test.

The Wu-14 was launched atop a Chinese ballistic missile and released along the edge of space.

Past tests of the glide vehicle were clocked as reaching an estimated speed of Mach 10, or 10 times the speed of sound—around 7,680 miles per hour.

Such speeds create difficult aeronautics and physics challenges for guidance systems and place extreme stress on materials used in construction of the vehicle.

The annual report of the congressional U.S.-China Economic and Security Review Commission, made public Nov. 20, reveals China’s hypersonic weapons program is a major development effort.

The report said the People’s Liberation Army “is developing hypersonic glide vehicles as a core component of its next-generation precision strike capability.”

“Hypersonic glide vehicles could render existing U.S. missile defense systems less effective and potentially obsolete,” the report said.

The report said once deployed the Wu-14 “could enable China to conduct kinetic strikes anywhere in the world within minutes to hours.”

China plans to deploy its high-speed glide vehicle by 2020 and a scramjet powered hypersonic vehicle by 2025.

Lee Fuell, technical director for force modernization and employment at the National Air and Space Intelligence Center (NASIC), told the Commission that Chinese glide vehicle is launched on a ballistic missile, dives to hypersonic speed and glides to its target. The weapon currently is assessed to be “associated with [China’s] nuclear deterrent forces.”

“Of great concern would be if [China] was to apply the same technology and capability with a conventional warhead or even just without a warhead because of the kinetic energy that it has in combination with their theater ballistic missiles … in a theater role,” Fuell said.

The intelligence analyst said that hypersonic vehicles “are extremely difficult to defend against because just the time is so compressed between initial detection, being able to get a track, being able to get a fire control solution, and then just being able to have a weapon that can intercept them in some way just because of the speed at which they’re moving.”

“If that is combined with more traditional ballistic missile attacks forcing a target to defend against very high aspect warheads coming in this way at the same time they have to defend against low altitude, very high speed targets coming in [another] way, it makes the defense problem orders of magnitude worse for the defender,” he said.

The commission report stated that China is expanding its strategic nuclear forces “significantly,” with deployment of new missiles, submarines, and multiple-warhead weapons.

Rick Fisher, a China military affairs analyst, said more tests are needed for China to turn the Wu-14 into a working weapon.

“But the real story is that such a program is now well underway,” said Fisher, with the International Assessment and Strategy Center. “For hypersonic systems, all tests, failures, and successes, provide a positive contribution toward the goal of developing a weapon.”

The Wu-14 is part of what military analysts have said in a growing hypersonic arms race involving China, Russia, and the United States.

Russia’s government announced last month that Moscow plans to field hypersonic missiles by 2020.

By contrast, U.S. development of a hypersonic weapons program has been limited.

The Aug. 25 test of the Army’s Advanced Hypersonic Weapon ended in disaster after the booster launching the weapon blew up shortly after launch from a test base on Kodiak Island, Alaska.

Funding for hypersonic weapons development also has been limited to around $360 million dollars, an amount critics say is small compared to estimated investments by China.

“It is now necessary for the United States to substantially increase funding in two areas,” Fisher, the China military analyst said. “First the U.S. must expand and accelerate its own hypersonic weapons program.”

The Pentagon should fund several types of hypersonic systems in a development competition, Fisher said, as well as further research in counter-hypersonic arms.

Past Pentagon research has included development of both guided-but-unpowered glide vehicles, and high-technology scramjet-powered hypersonic vehicles.

A space plane called the X-37 also is being developed as part of a program known as conventional Prompt Global Strike.

U.S. intelligence analysts have said the current Chinese Wu-14 program is currently part of its strategic nuclear program. However, China also could use the Wu-14 as part of its conventional strike program, such as planning attacks on aircraft carriers in the western Pacific.

“While missile based counter-systems may provide an early solution, there is much more potential in the realm of energy weapons,” Fisher said.

“For example, rail guns offer great potential for early solutions to maneuvering hypersonic weapons and this technology deserves much greater funding,” he said.

Fisher also said the United States should increase capabilities for targeting China’s space and high altitude reconnaissance and surveillance systems, to include satellites.

“These will be absolutely necessary for China to successfully employ its long range hypersonic weapons,” he said.

A Chinese Embassy spokesman could not be reached for comment.

Lora Saalman, an expert on China’s hypersonic development at the Carnegie Endowment, said after China’s second Wu-14 test in August that the closeness of the first two tests showed that Beijing is “fast-tracking” the strategic program.

“When compared with the yearly gaps in between its [anti-satellite] and [ballistic missile defense] tests in 2007, 2010, 2013, and 2014, the WU-14 accelerates China’s development timeline exponentially,” she said in an email in August.

Saalman believes the Wu-14 is part of a Chinese version of the U.S. conventional Prompt Global Strike program.

Lora Saalman, an expert on China’s hypersonic development at the Carnegie Endowment, said China’s third test of the Wu-14 in one year is unusual.

“Not only does this third test of the WU-14 in one year indicate that this is a priority program for China, it also suggests that U.S. historical concerns over a Chinese quantitative ‘sprint to parity’ in nuclear weapons are misdirected,” she said.

“Instead, China is racing ahead on qualitatively developing their advanced conventional weapons,” Saalman stated in an email. “Such developments are significant in that the posture guiding use of these weapons is not guided by nuclear taboo or no first use.”

Mark Schneider, a former Pentagon strategic forces specialist, said the latest Chinese hypersonic vehicle test poses “a serious threat.”

“The National Air and Space Intelligence Center has said in open testimony before the China Commission that the vehicle is nuclear and there may also be a conventional version,” Schneider said.

“There is not really a race in hypersonic weapons,” he added. “U.S. programs are small scale due to budget cuts.”

Russia’s announced programs on hypersonics include a high-speed missile for a new stealth bomber, hypersonic warheads for Russian ballistic missiles, and a joint cruise missile program with India, Schneider said. “We are clearly losing our technical edge.”

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Le 4 Décembre 2014, un P-3C japonais a photographié 5 navires chinois en train de traverser la première chaîne d'îles, à 140km à l'Ouest de Yakushima, en direction du Pacifique de l'Ouest.

http://www.mod.go.jp/js/Press/press2014 ... 141204.pdf

Selon un communiqué officiel de la marine chinoise, une flottille de la flotte du Nord part au Pacifique de l'Ouest pour une série d'entrainement et de patrouille.

La flottille est composée d'un destroyer de Type 051C, d'un destroyer de Type 052, de 2 frégates de Type 054A et d'un ravitailleur-pétrolier de Type 903A.













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Exercice d'une unité de DF-15B du 2nd corps d'artillerie.



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Patrouille des avions de surveillance maritime de la flotte du Nord.



Entrainement ASW des vieilles corvettes de la flotte du Nord.



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Entrainement au combat libre d'une unité de l'armée de l'air chinoise.



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Le centre médical de casque bleu chinois au Mali opère les casques bleus des autres pays blessés en mission.



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Exercice de la brigade de lutte anti-aérienne du 65ème groupe d'armées de la région militaire de Pékin. Cette brigade est équipée de SAM HQ-16A.



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Après la traversée de 5 navires de guerre chinois de la première chaîne d'îles il y a 2 jours, les Japonais ont intercepté 3 avions de surveillance et 2 bombardiers de la marine chinoise au dessus des eaux internationales.

Il s'agit d'une avion ELINT / SIGINT de type GX-8, 2 avions de surveillance maritime Y-8J, et 2 bombardiers H-6G. Bien que les H-6G ne sont visiblement pas armés selon les photos des Japonais, on remarquera les pylônes spécifiques pour emporter les missiles anti-navire supersonique YJ-12.

A noter que la dernière fois que l'armée japonaise a photographié un GX-8 c'était en Octobre 2014, mais l'appareil ne volait qu'à l'intérieur de la première chaîne d'îles.

Rapport de l'Etat major japonais - http://www.mod.go.jp/js/Press/press2014 ... 206_01.pdf













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Le navire de sauvetage sous-marin 861 Zhangxingdao de Type 925, en mission actuellement dans l'Océan indien pour supporter les sous-marins chinois qui sont en patrouille sur zone, s'est déplacé au Malé, la capitale des Maldives, pour fournir de l'eau portable. L'usine de dessalement de la ville est tombée en panne et l'île est privée d'eau douce.

http://military.people.com.cn/n/2014/12 ... 60930.html

Le navire peut produire 70t d'eau douce chaque jour.

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Le PDG du groupe AVIC, la maison mère du plupart des bureaux d'études et des entités de production aéronautique chinois, et l'ingénieur en chef du programme FC-31, ont accordé un interview à la chaîne de télévision nationale CCTV pour parler du FC-31.

L'interview sera diffusé demain sur CCTV-2, une chaîne spécialisée dans l'économie et la finance.



Le PDG du groupe AVIC, Zuoming LIN, dans l'interview



L'appareil 31001 du programme FC-31, pendant l'interview. La personne à gauche dans la 2ème photo ci-dessous est l'ingénieur en chef de FC-31, Cong SUN. Il est également l'ingénieur en chef du programme J-15.











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Entrainement des élève-pilotes de chasse de la flotte du Nord.



Reportage de CCTV sur l'envoie d'une flottille de la flotte du Nord dans le Pacifique de l'Ouest.



Un expert de l'armée commente la surveillance des traversées de la première chaîne d'îles par les Japonais



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Exercice d'une unité de la région militaire de Nanjing.



Entrainement d'un régiment du 13ème groupe d'armées de la région militaire de Chengdu



Entrainement d'une unité d'artillerie de la région militaire de Shenyang



Entrainement de pilotage des chars du 39ème groupe d'armées de la région militaire de Shenyang



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