PLA Navy news, pics and videos

SinoSoldier said:

Latest rumor: Admiral Wu and the entire PLA Naval headquarters were shown a railgun prototype during an inspection tour of the Naval Engineering University.

It seems to be have been developed by a different institute from the one that built the earlier (and smaller) demonstrator.

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中新网7月5日电据国家海洋局网站消息，2016年7月5日，中国海警2307、2151、31241舰船编队在我钓鱼岛领海内巡航。

延伸阅读：

海警31241船的前身是中国海军053H2G型“江卫I”级导弹护卫舰，该舰是中国海军在上世纪80年代借鉴国际先进技术，结合中国国内已有的技术储备，自行研制的一款2000吨级的护卫舰，不过近几年伴随着中国众多054系列护卫舰的服役，053H2G型“江卫I”级护卫舰就显得比较落后了，加上中国海警当前需要大量的执法船，中国就将该机护卫舰改装后交付海警使用，相比较其他海警船，改装后的053H2G型“江卫I”级海警船依然装备有4座高炮系统，是海警执法船中火力最强大的战舰之一

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Our colleagues from Eastpendulum are reporting that the People's Liberation Army Navy (PLAN or Chinese Navy) conducted large scale naval drills in the South China Sea. The naval exercise involved close to 100 vessels, submarine, aircraft from the PLAN air force and coastal defense (land based) units during 4 days (between July 7 and 11, 2016).

Based on the pictures and videos of the exercise released by the PLAN, several vessels and systems can be identified:
» Destroyers: Type 052C Lanzhou (hull number 170), Type 052D Hefei (174), Type 052B Guangzhou (168) Type 051C Shenyang (115) and Sovremenyy-class destroyers Ningbo (139).
» Type 054A Frigates Hengyang (568), Huangshan (570), Yuncheng (571), Sanya (574) and Yueyang (575)
» Type 056 Corvettes Luzhou (592), Chaozhou (595) and Huizhou (596) and Type 056A Corvette Suqian (504)
» Type 039 and Kilo-class diesel-electric submarines (SSK)
» J-10AH, J-11BH, JH-7A and Su-30MKK fighters as well as H-6G bombers
» HQ-9 medium-to-long range air defense missile system
» YJ-62 coastal defence units
» The new YJ-12 supersonic anti-ship cruise missile launched from an H-6G
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According to an official PLAN statement, the objective of this large scale exercise was to evaluate the integrated capability of the various units of the Chinese navy in case of a local conflict. The presence of the Commander of the Chinese navy, Admiral Wu Shengli, and officials of the General Staff throughout the maneuvers demonstrates the importance of this naval exercise.

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asif iqbal said:

News coming out that the order for materials for the first 3 x LHD is in

Steel cutting by years end

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