China's Defense/Military Breaking News Thread

dingyibvs

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Those things add a good amount of weight, I hope they train with weights if they don't usually wear them until they're deployed to the front line.
 

Equation

Lieutenant General
Those things add a good amount of weight, I hope they train with weights if they don't usually wear them until they're deployed to the front line.

Probably a little heavier than football shoulder pads. But in all it's not that great of a deal in regards to weight.
 

subotai1

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heavily patrolled by troops, vehicles stopped to examine cell phones & take photo of passports."

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So.... the question is are they looking for people who don't belong or they expecting something to start happening in that area, or both?
 

dingyibvs

Junior Member
Probably a little heavier than football shoulder pads. But in all it's not that great of a deal in regards to weight.

When you're fighting for your life, every ounce matters. Football players practice in their pads too, even when they're not going full contact they still practice in shells most of the time. While I agree that all things considered it's probably not a major issue, I still think it'd be a detail that could improve realism of training.
 

Equation

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When you're fighting for your life, every ounce matters. Football players practice in their pads too, even when they're not going full contact they still practice in shells most of the time. While I agree that all things considered it's probably not a major issue, I still think it'd be a detail that could improve realism of training.

When you are fighting for your life, your training and discipline along with team work will decide one's fate. Not a single equipment with training or without it. There are too many variables and ways that can kill a soldier either in battle or during peace. Bottom line there's only so much realism you can train up to, otherwise the risk of injuries and death will increase for the soldiers and there goes a wast of not only limb, money, but life as well. It's a balance, but a very important one.
 

Blackstone

Brigadier
Something doesn't pass the smell test, and I suspect the so-called "Panda bashers" in Japan and in the US. I say that because Xi's reported primary objective was to establish good personal relations with Trump and smooth the road to address urgent Sino-American issues. Heavy handed demand to disrupt US Navy's high command structure just doesn't seem credible. That's especially the case when you consider Admiral Harris is in the mainstream of US defense establishment, main stream media, and associated NGOs.

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BEIJING – China urged the United States to sack the head of the U.S. Pacific Command in return for exerting more pressure on North Korea amid concerns over its growing nuclear and missile threats, a source close to U.S.-China ties said Saturday.

The Chinese leadership headed by President Xi Jinping made the request, through its ambassador in the United States, to dismiss Adm. Harry Harris, known as a hard-liner on China, including with respect to the South China Sea issue, the source said.

China’s envoy to the United States, Cui Tiankai, conveyed the request to the U.S. side, to coincide with the first face-to-face, two-day meeting between President Donald Trump and Xi in Florida from April 6, but the Trump administration likely rejected it, the source said.

China is a longtime economic and diplomatic benefactor of North Korea.

As the head of Pacific Command, Harris, who was born in Japan and raised in the United States, plays a vital role in the security of the region.

He was responsible in ordering last month the dispatch of the USS Carl Vinson aircraft carrier to waters near off the Korean Peninsula in a show of force amid signs the North was preparing to test-fire another ballistic missile or conduct a sixth nuclear test.

The Trump administration has called for exerting “maximum pressure” on North Korea to prod it to give up its nuclear and missile programs. The administration has said all options — including a military strikes — remain on the table.

Harris has pushed for the U.S. deployment of the advanced Terminal High Altitude Area Defense (THAAD) anti-missile system to South Korea. China has opposed the deployment, saying it could undermine its security interests and the strategic balance of the region.

He has also called for continuing U.S. “freedom of navigation” operations in the contested South China Sea. Overlapping territorial claims, as well as land construction and militarization of outposts in disputed areas in the sea, remain a source of tension in the region.

According to the source, Cui also asked the Trump administration not to label China as a currency manipulator. As per the request, the United States did not label China as such, in light of Beijing’s role in helping Washington deal with the North Korean issue.
 

Franklin

Captain
Is it just me or is the information flow out of China these days just slow. The J-10 thread use to be one of the busiest threads here. But now has been idle for more than a month. We have to presume that new J-10's, J-16's, Z-10's, Type 96/99 MBT's and other weapon systems are constantly being build in China and handed over to PLA and that new PLA units with new weapons are being put to operational use. But we just hear very little of it.
 
Don't know if this has to do with ECS ADIZs, Diaoyus/Senkakus, FONOPs, or the Koreas, or a combination of them, so into the breaking news thread it goes.

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WORLD NEWS | Fri May 19, 2017 | 12:32pm EDT
Chinese jets intercept U.S. radiation-sniffing plane, U.S. says

Two Chinese SU-30 aircraft carried out what the U.S. military described as an "unprofessional" intercept of a U.S. aircraft designed to detect radiation while it was flying in international air space over the East China Sea.

"The issue is being addressed with China through appropriate diplomatic and military channels," said U.S. Air Force spokeswoman Lieutenant Colonel Lori Hodge.

Hodge said the U.S. characterization of the incident was based on initial reports from the U.S. air crew aboard the WC-135 Constant Phoenix aircraft "due to the maneuvers by the Chinese pilot, as well as the speeds and proximity of both aircraft".

"Distances always have a bearing on how we characterize interactions," Hodge said, adding a U.S. military investigation into the intercept was under way.

She said the WC-135 was carrying out a routine mission at the time and was operating in accordance with international law.

China's Defence Ministry, in a short statement, said the U.S. account "did not accord with the facts".

It said that what it described as a U.S. surveillance aircraft was carrying out surveillance activities over the Yellow Sea, and Chinese aircraft went to investigate "in accordance with the law and the rules".

"The relevant action was professional and safe," it said.

The ministry added that U.S. military ships and aircraft frequently carrying out close-in surveillance is the root cause of safety problems between China and the United States at sea and in the air.

"We hope that the U.S. side stops relevant surveillance activities, to avoid this kind of incident happening again."

China says its aircraft acted safely after U.S. complains of intercept
Speaking earlier, Chinese foreign ministry spokeswoman Hua Chunying said: "We hope that the U.S. side can respect China's reasonable security concerns."

On Feb. 8, a U.S. Navy P-3 spy plane and a Chinese military aircraft came close to each other over the South China Sea in an incident the Navy saw as unsafe but also inadvertent.

Reuters reported at the time that the aircraft came within 1,000 feet (305 meters) of each other in the vicinity of the Scarborough Shoal, between the Philippines and the Chinese mainland.

China is deeply suspicious of any U.S. military activity around its coastline, especially in the resource-rich South China Sea, parts of which are disputed by China and its smaller neighbors including the Philippines, Vietnam and Malaysia.

(Reporting by Phil Stewart in Washington and Ben Blanchard in Beijing; Editing by Mark Heinrich)
 
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