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[dil@w]

Review on China's aircraft carrier's sea trials





http://www.ecns.cn/visual/hd/2012/08-11 ... l#nextpage

[dil@w]

Visite de 3 navires chinois en israel


[video]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QcvWzrRS3AU[/video]
Rear Adm. Eli Sharvit, commander of the Israel Navy’s Haifa Base, and Rear Adm. Yang Junfei, deputy commander of the PLA’s North China Sea.

Three Chinese warships from the People’s Liberation Army Navy (PLAN) docked in Haifa Aug. 13 for a five-day visit here as guests of the Israel Navy.

Led by Rear Adm. Yang Junfei, deputy commander of the PLAN’s North China Sea Fleet, the Chinese contingent will tour multiple sites throughout the country in honor of the 20th anniversary of diplomatic ties between Jerusalem and Beijing.

Last month, Yang met with EU Naval Force (NAVFOR) Commander, Rear Adm. Jean-Baptiste Dupuis, aboard the French command and replenishment ship Marne, which was plying the waters of the Gulf of Aden. At the time of the July 17 visit, an EU NAVFOR spokesman noted the need for enhanced cooperation with the PLAN’s anti-piracy task force operating in the Gulf of Aden and off the coast of Somalia.

“The significant number of actors who are committed in counter-piracy makes regular contact essential [for] de-confliction ... and coordinated actions where appropriate to increase the effectiveness of the various navies present in the area,” according to the EU NAVFOR spokesman.

Israel has hinted at, but has not publicly acknowledged, anti-smuggling and counterterror operations around the Horn of Africa and into the Arabian Sea. In an interview last spring, Lt. Gen. Benny Gantz, Israel Defense Forces (IDF) chief of staff, told Israel’s Yediot Ahronot, “You almost won’t find a point in time that nothing is happening somewhere around the world.”

Gantz spent a week in China last May as guest of PLA Commander Gen. Chen Bindnge. It was the first visit by an IDF chief of staff since 1996 and was aimed to strengthen Sino-Israeli ties in light of Beijing’s growing interests in the Mediterranean and Arabian Gulf regions.

http://www.defensenews.com/article/2012 ... |FRONTPAGE

[dil@w]

photos d'un Shenyang J-15 et d'un Z-8AEW lors des manoeuvres de l'ex Varyag


http://www.flightglobal.com/blogs/asian ... ft-ap.html

[dil@w]

un premier groupe de femmes-pilotes sur J-10

Five female PLAAF fighter pilots went solo on the Chengdu J-10 fighter on July 29 and 30. There are Yu Xu, Tao Jia Li, Li Min He, Xiao Li and Cheng Yi Fei.
There were part of a group of 16 pioneer women fighter pilots who graduated in April 2009.

http://pic.people.com.cn/n/2012/0815/c1 ... 45190.html

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photos d'un Shenyang J-15 et d'un Z-8AEW lors des manoeuvres de l'ex Varyag


http://www.flightglobal.com/blogs/asian ... ft-ap.html

Je vais peut être dire une bêtise mais j'ai l'impression que ces deux appareils sont des maquettes. Deux détails me font douter, le premier sur le J-15, c'est sa verrière. Le second sur le Z-8 ,qui est une copie du super Frelon, c'est sa tête de rotor qui m'a l'air d'être simplifiée à l'extrême. De plus, je viens de comparer la photo du Z-8 avec une qui se trouve dans le très bon bouquin d'Efim Gordon qui traite des appareils Chinois et il manque le redant de coque. Là, c'est flagrant

[Trident]

J'ai le souvenir d'avoir lut - mais je ne sais plus où- que le J-15 embarqué à bord de l'ex Varyag est une maquette, rien lut sur le Z-8 mais je partage ta remarque.

[inconnu]

Itou .... ça m'a l'air d'être des maquettes

[Trident]

Source retrouvée : c'est des maquettes destinés à entrainer l'équipage de l'ex Varyag à manœuvrer les appareils sur le pont.

http://chinesemilitaryreview.blogspot.c ... -with.html

[dil@w]

merci et bravo a vous trois d'avoir été si perspicace, je dois avouer m’être fait berné il n'y a pas à dire j'adore ce forum et surtout ses participants :hadarat:

[mig 29/32]

c'est vrai dil@w ce forum est sans commentaire que du professionnalisme mais on apprécie également ta participation !!!

[dil@w]

La Chine a procédé au test du DF-41 missile balistique intercontinental

China’s military conducted the first flight test of a new long-range intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) that U.S. officials say will be Beijing’s first strategic missile armed with multiple warheads.

The flight test of the DF-41 road-mobile ICBM occurred July 24 and is raising new concerns within the U.S. military and intelligence agencies over China’s long-range missile threat, according to officials familiar with reports of the test.

The DF-41 missile is a first-strike nuclear capability, based on its mobility, estimated range, targeting precision, and multiple warheads.

In addition to shorter-range ICBMs known as the DF-31 and DF-31A, which are believed to target India and Russia, the new ICBM is said by U.S. officials to be designed to hit U.S. targets with multiple nuclear warheads.

China has claimed it will not be the first to use nuclear weapons and that its nuclear forces are designed for a counterstrike against a nuclear attack on its territory.

The DF-41 development has called into question the so-called no-first-use policy, officials said.

The test is also likely to renew debate within U.S. intelligence circles about whether China is seeking only a limited nuclear force, or is secretly building up its nuclear forces to challenge U.S. strategic power.

The new missile bolsters China’s strategic forces, making them among the most diverse in the world, with a variety of short-, medium-, intermediate-, and intercontinental-range missiles.

China also has developed ground-launched anti-satellite missiles and a unique anti-ship ballistic missile with enough accuracy to hit U.S. aircraft carriers at sea.
It is also believed that the DF-41 is part of efforts by China to develop missiles that can defeat U.S. strategic missile defenses. The Pentagon currently has a limited system capable of stopping a few North Korean ICBMs.

Former military intelligence official Larry Wortzel, a member of the congressional U.S.-China Economic and Security Review Commission, said the DF-41′s multiple warheads are expected to include special simulated warheads called “penetration aids” that are designed counter U.S. missile defense sensors.

The DF-41 “is mobile and will be very hard to detect and counter because of that mobility,” Wortzel said. “The warhead array will most certainly include penetration aids.”

A Pentagon spokeswoman declined to comment on the missile test.

Details of the flight test could not be learned.

However, past China flight tests of long-range missiles involved launches from the Wuzhai Space and Missile Test Center that flew west into the far western Chinese desert several thousand miles away. Analysts say such flight tests are often shortened by limiting the time the first stage fires in order to keep the missile within Chinese territory.
“There are credible references to a DF-41 program in the Chinese literature,” said Mark Stokes, a former Pentagon official and specialist on China’s strategic nuclear systems.

“The system appears to incorporate a new, larger solid rocket motor than that used on the DF-31 series of delivery vehicles. Ground tests on the motor have been underway for a couple of years.”

Stokes, executive director of the Project 2049 Institute, said the Chinese military’s Second Artillery Corps, which is in charge of both strategic and non-nuclear missiles, is working to integrate the DF-41 into its operational inventory.

“Tentative indications exist that the Second Artillery force has established an operational test and evaluation unit in southern Henan Province,” he said.

Stokes said it is not clear whether the current DF-41 program is similar to an earlier program in the 1990s that was believed to have been converted into the less-capable DF-31A missile, “but it looks real.”

U.S. intelligence analysts suspect the DF-41 is based on Russia’s long-range mobile missile known as the SS-27 and that Russian missile guidance technology—either purchased or stolen by Chinese spies—is part of the system.

Phillip Karber, a Georgetown University professor who has studied Chinese nuclear programs, said the DF-41 test could signal a major boost in estimates of China’s strategic nuclear forces.
Karber said it is likely the DF-41 will carry three warheads, and if the Chinese follow Russia’s model of building three re-load missiles for each launcher, the number of Chinese strategic warheads could more than double from current levels.

A future DF-41 force of some 32 missiles with reloads and multiple warheads would be enough for China to target every U.S. city with a population over 50,000 people, Karber said.

“If the Chinese end up developing that kind of counter-value posture against American cities, and we do not build missile defenses against it, it spells the end of extended nuclear deterrence for Asia,” Karber said. The result would be a likely nuclear arms race in Asia.

Richard Fisher, a specialist on the Chinese military affairs, said the DF-41 has been under development since 1986, but the U.S. government is only now recognizing it.

“Pentagon reticence to disclose information about this missile is further confused by the fact that Chinese Internet source images of the 18-wheel Transporter-Erector-Launcher (TEL) for this missile have been available since 2007,” said Fisher, a senior fellow at the International Assessment and Strategy Center. “There are now four distinct images of this TEL that show it is a very large mobile ICBM, similar in size to modern Russian mobile ICBMs.”

Fisher said the DF-41 test is probably the missile referenced briefly in the Pentagon’s 2011 annual report on the Chinese military but omitted from this year’s abbreviated report to Congress.

In addition to the DF-31 and DF-31A, “China may also be developing a new road-mobile ICBM, possibly capable of carrying a multiple independently targetable re-entry vehicle (MIRV),” the Pentagon report said.

The website missilethreat.com reported that the DF-41 can be armed with up to 10 MIRV warheads.

The DF-41 “is easily capable of striking the United States and will likely become the core of the PRC’s nuclear strike force,” Missilethreat.com stated in its assessment.

Its maximum range is estimated to be 8,699 miles, enough to reach targets throughout the United States from mobile launchers in eastern or northern China.

China, to date, has not been known to place multiple warheads on its missiles, but obtained technology from the United States in the 1990s for launching multiple satellites on a launcher that U.S. officials say provides a base for MIRV warheads.

China also obtained through espionage details of the U.S. W-88 small nuclear warhead in the 1990s, according to U.S. intelligence assessments. The W-88 is used on U.S. submarine-launched ballistic missiles and is considered suitable for multiple-warhead missiles.

China’s total nuclear warhead force is unknown. U.S. intelligence agencies estimate there are between 300 and 400 warheads in the Chinese arsenal.

However, the actual number could be far higher, based on recent disclosures that China has built 3,000 miles of underground tunnels and nuclear facilities throughout the country.
Fisher said he was told by a foreign military source in 2010 that the new long-range mobile missile could carry as many as 10 warheads, which means U.S. estimates of Chinese warhead stockpiles may be low.

“So if you assume that a PLA Second Artillery contains 18 ICBM size missiles, that could mean an increase of 180 warheads per deployed brigade,” Fisher said.

“Judging from the PLA production rate for the DF-31A ICBM, it appears they could easily produce up to one new brigade per year. So if we assume that testing transitions to continuous production and deployment by 2015, then it is plausible that the DF-41 alone could account for up to 900 warheads by 2020.”

China’s warhead force for long-range missiles could be has high as 1,032, based on the number of submarines and mobile missile brigades China is deploying, Fisher said.

“These are plausible estimates; they may or may not happen, [but] the point is that we don’t know for sure, and the PLA has made crystal clear that it does not want to talk to the U.S. government about its current or future nuclear missile capabilities,” Fisher said.

In addition to China’s refusal to hold strategic nuclear talks, Beijing also may be engaged in a “massive deception” that Fisher says is highlighted by the 3,000 miles of underground nuclear tunnels to support nuclear and military forces.

The flight test of the DF-41 also undermined the analysis of some specialists who have sought to play down China’s nuclear ambitions.

For example, the Federation of American Scientists reported in 2008 that the DF-41 program was canceled.

The trade publication Jane’s Strategic Weapons Systems reported in February that the DF-41 would replace China’s older, silo-based strategic missiles, known as the DF-5 and DF-5A.

“The development for DF-41 is believed to be managed by the China Aerospace Sciences and Industry Corporation (CASIC), Beijing,” Jane’s stated in its report.

“The flight test program is managed by the Second Artillery Corps, based at the Wuzhai test center in Shanxi province. There was one reported ground test and a simulated cold launch in October 1999, but no test flights have been reported.”

Initially, the DF-41 was described as a missile built from the first two stages of the DF-31 with a lengthened third stage.

“But it is now believed that this description referred to the DF-31A, and that the DF-41 is a new design,” Jane’s stated, noting that both road mobile launchers and railroad car launchers could be used.

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http://freebeacon.com/manchu-missile-launch/

[dil@w]

le système SAM Yi-Tian serait destiné à la People's Liberation Army Navy Marine Corps?

The Yi-Tian air defense system is developed by Norinco and was first unveiled in 2005. Mounted on a WZ551 chassis, the system is amphibious and can be further equipped with a 12.7 mm heavy machine gun.
Primary armament is the TY-90 IR missile with guidance from a 3D passive phased array radar that can be folded during travel.

[geronimo]

Chinese carrier seen with J-15 Flanker copy onboard
http://www.flightglobal.com/blogs/the-dewline/

My colleague Greg Waldron from our office in Singapore is reporting that China's "new" carrier--the former Soviet vessel Varyag--has been spotted with a number of aircraft embarked. Among these are a Z-8 airborne early warning helicopter and a Shenyang J-15 copy of the Russian Su-33 carrier-variant of the Flanker.

The version of the J-15 spotted on the former Varyag is significantly different than the original Su-33 or even previous versions of the J-15 that have been photographed. The cockpit canopy is shortened/cut-off, and--at least to me--the forward fuselage and radome looks shorter and fatter.

Why the Chinese would alter the design in such a manner is anyone's guess--it's not like they're going to tell us. But it's standard practice to build flight sciences aircraft to evaluate flying characteristics and separate jets to test the avionics. We do it; the Russians do it; and the Chinese mostly likely do so also. It might be a new radar in there. But designs also evolve as flight testing progresses and problems are found...

Tres belles photos sur le sujet

[AAF 2020]

Un nouveau char de combat chinois
Réservoir Top secret a montré son «visage»

Nous avons déjà parlé du développement de la République populaire de Chine à des combats de chars légers dans les montagnes. Contrairement à la Russie, l'armée chinoise n'a pas cherché à créer une plate-forme unifiée, ils conçoivent technique sous certaines tâches.Par conséquent, pour le Corps des Marines a créé un char léger, en mettant l'accent sur ​​la performance améliorée de mouvement sur ​​la mer, et pour les parties qui sont dans les montagnes, crée une machine de combat complètement différent. Récemment pris connaissance de la création d'un autre réservoir pour Airborne.
Quant à la «montagne du réservoir", les experts disent qu'il devrait remplacer le type désespérément obsolète 62, qui est léger, et une version simplifiée d'un clone du Soviet T-54 avec l'utilisation des technologies appliquées même dans le légendaire T-34.Sur les quelques photos qui ont été publiées sur le Web, il était évident que le châssis shestiopornoe réservoir avec trois rouleaux de support équipé suspension hydropneumatique réglable. Réservoir presque "est en bas" sur un quai de gare. Les experts sont d'avis que cette suspension réglable est très utile dans les montagnes, il permettra d'accroître considérablement la mobilité et même la survie de la cuve dans les combats.
En établissant sa machine militaire, les Chinois ont pris en compte l'expérience des Japonais et les Coréens - dans les pays où un espace à dominante montagneuses sont équipés de réservoirs pour une longue période de suspension telle contrôlée.
Les experts ont également noté que la photo qui est apparu sur le Web, il était clair que le réservoir est bien couvert avec la tour. Et il a été supposé que la voiture est vue panoramique du commandant. Pas exclu que dans le développement du système de lutte contre l'incendie a été utilisé pour créer l'expérience des dernières FCS 99A2 de type bac. Pistolet calibre a été estimée à 105 mm.

Nouvelle photos de qualité médiocre mais a confirmé la justesse de nos experts. En outre, la photo montre que la tour est protégée réservation modulaire. A en juger par le fait que les Chinois ont commencé à porter leurs chars, n'ont absolument aucun en les déguisant, dit que, dans un court laps de temps le réservoir sera sur le convoyeur et de commencer leurs achats en vrac.
Soit dit en passant, au sujet de son désir de créer un "réservoir de roche» et placer ces machines dans les zones frontalières avec la Chine, l'Inde a dit à plusieurs reprises, mais alors que les hindous disent et dépenser de l'argent sur ​​les projecteurs inutiles, comme "Arjun", les Chinois sont activement la mise à niveau de leur armure.

http://translate.googleusercontent.com/ ... hBtEd1Z5aw

[AAF 2020]

La Russie va fournir Chine 55 Mi-171E

Selon le contrat signé en Juillet, la Russie fournira 55 hélicoptères polyvalents Chine Mi-171E, a déclaré mardi le directeur adjoint du Service fédéral pour la coopération militaire et technique, Viatcheslav Dzirkaln, refusant de divulguer la valeur du contrat.

"En Juillet de cette année," Rosoboronexport "a signé un contrat pour fournir à la Chine avec 55 Mi-171E" - a déclaré Dzirkaln, "Interfax"

Il n'a pas précisé le coût et les modalités de livraison d'hélicoptères, mais il dit que ce n'est pas le seul contrat avec la Chine, qui a été signé récemment.

À l'appui de son Dzirkaln dit que déjà signé un contrat pour fournir à la Chine un important lot de moteurs d'avions russes.

Polyvalent hélicoptère de transport Mi-171E appartient à la famille de la Mi-8 est le résultat de la modernisation profonde de la Mi-17. L'hélicoptère a été développé en OKB. Mile, et à partir de 1990 la production en série à l'usine Ulan-Ude Aviation, filiale de la holding "Hélicoptères de Russie". L'hélicoptère peut transporter une version passagers 26 personnes, et dans le transport - jusqu'à 4 millions de kilogrammes de fret dans la cargaison ou la charge externe.

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