When was the first time you visit sinodefence?

In March 2005, I was searching for articles on the new fighter jet that China and Pakistan had jointly developed. I did not even know its name.

So I searched "china pakistan fighter jet" or similar keywords until I stumbled upon sinodefence forum. That was the first time I saw a forum. A thread was discussing FC-1.

There was a tab called Post New Thread, and I clicked on it. It asked for a password and I typed something (I wasnt even a member, but a guest).
Then there was a username field. I thought what should it be ? Since I had posted about the LCA, I chose my username Indianfighter.

My first post was titled : "India's new fighter jet" or " India's new combat jet "
The message was " Hello. Recently India developed its latest fighter jet, the LCA Tejas. I think that it is great. What do you think ?"

Needless to say, that thread was attacked very badly.

Later I came to know a LOT about Chinese defence industry. I came to know that FC-1 is JF-17 in Pakistan, there is a J-10 and J-11, and SD-10 etc.

i came to this site before the old forum is even open. I think i was being linked to here by firearmsmod.net <---hl mod now called firearms2mod.net in their guns section. I think they were talking about the type-81 or 95 back then

I was doing some research about Yue Fei.
So I was looking for a history forum about China in English, so that I could ask questions as I am unable to read Chinese. I used words like ¨Chinese history forum¨ in the search engine and one of the results on Google was Sinodefenceforum.com

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