China :: Defence :: Space

The Minister of Defence, Carme Chacon, today in Rota (Cadiz) attended the ceremonies marking the opening of the new pier at the Naval Base, and the delivery to the Navy, by the company Navantia, of the first Maritime Action Ship (BAM), Meteor. Chacon has also chaired the meeting of the Superior Council of the Navy which was held aboard the strategic projection ship 'Juan Carlos I'. During the visit, the minister announced that the Cabinet tomorrow [July 29Ed.] will authorize the award of a contract to build five new Maritime Action Ships. This new program, according to the minister, will secure jobs for 6,000 families in the Bay of Cadiz area for the next five years. Chacon, who made the announcement during as the first Maritime Action Ship, the Meteor, was handed over the the Navy, said that three of the new ships will be configured for patrol missions, one for search and rescue, and the final one for oceanographic research. The program for the construction of the first four B...

As part of a multi-national Airborne Exercise Canadian Paratroopers from 3rd Battalion, Royal 22e Rgiment, parachute out of a Ukrainian IL-76 Ilyushin during Exercise Rapid Trident 2011. Thirty-one Canadian Forces paratroopers have undergone Ukrainian paratrooper training from Ukrainian paratroopers of the 80th Airborne Regiment in Lviv, Ukraine, 2011. From July 19 to 23, Canadian soldiers prepared for Exercise Rapid Trident 2011 where they will use Ukrainian paratrooper equipment and aircraft, a first for any NATO country. Rapid Trident 2011 is an exercise held from July 25 to August 5, 2011, that involves approximately 1,600 personnel from 13 NATO and Partnership for Peace member nations: Belarus, Estonia, Georgia, Latvia, Lithuania, Moldova, Poland, Serbia, Slovenia, Ukraine, the UK, USA and Canada. This year, Exercise Rapid Trident 2011 consists of a multi-national airborne operation and field training exercise that is hosted by Ukraine in support of Ukraine's Annual National P...

Previous photos of China's first aircraft carrier, the refitted ex-Soviet "Varyag", have shown the deck cleared, repainted, and the lights on. Now we see copious amounts of smoke pouring from the funnel. In the recent past, naysayers have described China's carrier as an engineless white elephant that might perhaps be used as a towed training vessel. Now we have definitive proof that there is a great deal of combustion going on inside the ship. While the carrier still hasn't left it's moorings in Dalian, this blogger can conclude one thing from this photo... Smoke means progress!

Standard AA armament layout, PL8+PL11 5th J-10B (1035) Prototype Land Based, Navalized, J-10AH

July 27, Ministry of National Defense announced that China "is using a waste carrier platform for transformation, for research and training." Yesterday, the executive director of China Society of Military Science and Deputy Secretary-General, Major General Luo said China is considering an internal naming of the aircraft carrier, will give you satisfactory answers. He believes that to effectively

The second trial of ArjunMark II, the advance version of Indias main battle tank, has begun in Pokharan firing range. The trial is aimed at testing the range and strength of the tank and other weaknesses pointed out in the first trail. Following the first trial, the Indian Army had highlighted the need of some more technical requirements. Arjuns new version boasts of an improved missile firing range apart from a latest laser system, which can detect explosives on the ground. Following the trial, the Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) will be making suitable changes in the tank on the advice of military experts. This advanced version of the tank is likely to be inducted into the Indian Army by next year. The trial of the advance version of Arjun has started in Pokharan firing range. This is a development trial and the tanks will be handed over to the Indian Army after removing all the faults pointed out by the military experts, Col SD Goswamy, Defence spokesperson, sai...

To learn more about China's first aircraft carrier, my friend Han Bin now joins me within the studio.Q: Han Bin, inform us why it's taken such a long time for China to rebuild this ship? So when will China produce its aircraft service providers?A, Yes, your question pertains to a thing that is much more difficult: to construct a replacement or rebuild from a classic one. From my interviews,

U.S. ignored China's angry protests, insisted on China to continue at or near the reconnaissance flight over, and perhaps both important Chinese military intelligence spy factors, but also to put pressure on China's political motives. Challenged China is fully capable air defense system effective against all types of U.S. reconnaissance aircraft.April 1, 2001, a United States Navy EP-3

An unarmed operational test Minuteman III intercontinental ballistic missile was destroyed by Vandenberg's Western Range officials July 27 after launching from here. Air Force controllers detected a flight anomaly and terminated the flight for safety reasons. When terminated, the vehicle was in the broad ocean area, northeast of Roi-Namur. "At all times public safety is paramount. We plan for situations like this and everything was executed according to the plan," said Col. Matthew Carroll, the 30th Space Wing chief of safety. "Established parameters were exceeded, and controllers sent destruct commands." The launch was an operational test to determine the weapon system's reliability and accuracy. An Air Force team will investigate the cause of the anomaly.

The Minister for Defence Materiel Jason Clare announced in Adelaide today that the $8 billion Air Warfare Destroyer project has taken delivery of three main gun mounts of the Air Warfare Destroyers. The gun mounts, manufactured by BAE Systems in the United States, are valued at $80 million and will be placed into a controlled storage facility in Adelaide until they are installed on HMA Ships Hobart, Brisbane and Sydney. The guns will be able to hit targets on land, air and at sea. They are capable of firing both Royal Australian Navy standard munitions and future extended range munitions, Mr Clare said. Similar gun mounts are installed on the Royal Australian Navys ANZAC Class frigates, the US Navys Arleigh Burke Class destroyers, the Spanish F-100 frigates and on ships within the South Korean, Japanese and Danish navies. More than 1,000 people are currently working on the construction of the ships across three shipyards in Australia; at ASC in South Australia, Forgacs in New South Wal...

Boeing today announced that its Directed Energy Systems (DES) division has signed a teaming agreement with BAE Systems to develop the Mk 38 Mod 2 Tactical Laser System for defense of U.S. Navy ships. The Navy awarded the BAE Systems team an initial contract in March to build a demonstrator unit of the system. Boeing is a subcontractor to BAE Systems under this contract. "Boeing is committed to developing this directed energy system that will significantly enhance ship defense," said Michael Rinn, Boeing DES vice president. "Combining BAE's engineering expertise with the proven directed-energy proficiency of Boeing's DES division creates a team uniquely qualified to integrate directed-energy technology into the Navy's shipboard armaments." The Mk 38 Mod 2 Tactical Laser System couples a solid-state high-energy laser weapon module with the operational Mk 38 Machine Gun System. The addition of the laser weapon module brings high-precision accuracy against s...

China Military: For a long time, people had been holding widely divided guesses about reasons for the development of China's first aircraft carrier. According to information released from an authoritative source, China is refitting the flat-top deck of a disused aircraft carrier mainly for scientific research, experiment and training. Aircraft carriers which came to the fore in as early as the

Beijing 28, 12 am, accompanied with a white spray, our first independent R & D integration of manned submersible dragon in the last 9 hours 14 minutes to complete the 5,000 meter-scale sea trial the third dive After the experiment again showed stability in periods of heavy rain the northeast Pacific sea surface, sea-trial on-site headquarters and Beijing live video connection suddenly burst out burst of applause. Liu gave your country Oceanic Administration in Beijing announced live video connection, the dragon was in this dive in to stop sitting at the end, photographic and acoustic undersea topography measurement and sampling the contents of such experiments, the maximum dive depth of 5188 meters, again invented a new dive depth research of the submersible in the deep environment technology function and performance indicators. Dragon was manned submersible 5000 m sea-level test of scientific investigation and the third dive experimental task is satisfactorily completed. Accordi...

27 at the Chinese Defense Ministry at a regular press conference that China will have the first aircraft carrier. Chinese National Defense University professor, Rear Admiral Zhang Zhaozhong to withstand China news agency reporters Cai Fang and Shi Zhichu, Chinas first aircraft carrier is not on a combat mission, will be used to perform exercises and lab assignments. The 59-year-old has been in the British Royal Navy Rear Admiral College of Military Science, known as the worlds aircraft carried out. He pointed out that the United States is the worlds first aircraft carrier to carry out the country, with more than 200 carriers have, experience of two world wars and hundreds of wars and battles. Japan back in 1922 on the construction of the aircraft carrier, the stability of foreign war, the number of aircraft to reach 25, the stability Ocean Midway, Coral Sea, Leyte Gulf, etc. with the United States launched a protracted battle durable carrier. The Chinese did not build more than a few t...

Li Yan was born in July 1961, Changchun, Guangzhou Naval Academy before entering the flight as squadron leader. After graduating from the South China Sea Fleet, assigned to the ship two driven detachment, beginning in 1995 as a frigate captain. In March 1996, Li Xiaoyan en Kuznetsov Naval Command College, home served as Shenzhen student driven ship captain, captain. Flying to fight the sky, daring ocean ship operation of the compound 49-year-old commander Bo Yaoping Baiyao Ping, the age of 24 is a good fighter pilots, the age of 28 completed works from the ship long, long war, captain captain to change practice, the Navys first flying to fight the sky, daring ocean ship operation of the compound commander. China is modified Kuznetsov was the proof of the audio level by the PLA, Who will command the Chinese navys first aircraft carrier has become a topic of much sought-after foreign media recently. look at the military family, said the aircraft carrier at sea giant , in order to contro...

Raytheon Company's aerostat system Joint Land Attack Cruise Missile Defense Elevated Netted Sensors (JLENS) recently completed a successful endurance test. "Providing long endurance surveillance for cruise missile defense is a very important capability of JLENS," said David Gulla, vice president for Global Integrated Sensors at Raytheon Integrated Defense Systems (IDS). "This recent test demonstrates JLENS' ability to stay aloft for extended periods performing its surveillance mission at lower costs than other systems and in a reliable manner. This test, along with others, is proving JLENS' value as an important component of the larger integrated air and missile defense mission." Raytheon is conducting JLENS flight tests at the Utah Training and Test Range near Salt Lake City. The system is primarily designed to detect, track and support engagements of cruise missiles and other air breathing aircraft, but is fully capable of detecting air, missile and ...

Today, China's Defense Ministry finally admitted to the existence of refitting the Vayarg carrier. Here is the Xinhua link on the subject. Here is a Reuters Article . And here are the highlights of the news conference with Defense Ministry. I wish to get a clip of the news conference and watch it over later, but here are the interesting points. Some anonymous source said 2 more aircraft carriers are being built at JN shipyard in Shanghai. (I'm not 100% on the number or the location, but it sounds quite plausible) Geng did not give an official sea trial date and said that it is not related to South China Sea drama. Geng said the task of training carrier-borne aircraft pilots is under the way. He also said that China is relying on its own effort to train naval pilots. (This is interesting, because I've read that the first Chinese pilots already got to Brazil.) Varyag is used for research, experiment and training. (I think it will have be eventually used for more than ...