GoldenDragonUFOs are just about the only thing that could fly from the Chinese side of the Himalayas, aside from the Y-8.
GoldenDragonThe Chinese language boards (and CDF and CMF) are currently buzzing over model company Trumpeter’s new “J-10A” model. Supposedly it will be released later this year, as early as March. An official unveiling?
According to the posts, the dimensions and details of the model comes from the photos and info on internet not official figures.
GoldenDragonA very interesting and useful synopsis of China’s aviation industry is compiled by the British trade agency.
It gives thumbnails on the companies, agencies and their products. Worth a read.
http://www.trade.uktradeinvest.gov.uk/aerospace/china/opportunities/opportunities.shtml
Aerospace (Civil) Industries in China
The China Aviation Industry Corporations are the lead organisations for manufacturing. AVIC 1 is a diverse organisation with 53 large and medium sized industrial enterprises, 30 research institutes, and 30 specialised companies and institution under its umbrella, employing a total of 260,000 people throughout China. As a general rule, AVIC I is mainly engaged in the development and manufacturing of military aircraft & civil aircraft above 30 seats. It also produces aero-engines, airborne equipment and weaponry system. It has a wide ranging portfolio of non-aviation related products produced by its factories. Partly this is a result of its formation – combing various provincial enterprises into one entity.
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n an attempt to develop “whole aircraft capability” and a viable civil aircraft industry, AVIC I, with Chinese government support has embarked on a programme to develop a 70-seater regional jet, the ARJ21. AVIC I is leading the programme, the basic design is based on technology acquired from the MD82 / MD90 programme. To meet international standards, equipment such as engines and avionics will be purchased from international suppliers. AVIC I is currently setting up a Project Company for the aircraft. Around 15 AVIC companies plan to take work shares in the programme, though it will probably be based in the Shanghai Aircraft Factory. Entry into Service (EIS) date for the aircraft is targeted for late 2006 or early 2007. The current strategy is to announce an engine choice at the Zhuhai Airshow in November (probably a shortlist, rather than a final choice), with a decision on the design of the plane to be made in 2003, and the test flights in 2004/5.
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China Aviation Industry Corporation II (AVIC II) has responsibility for smaller aircraft, with 54 industrial enterprises covering helicopter, aircraft, engine, airborne equipment, 3 institutes, and 22 enterprises under its control. It currently has joint co-operations Egypt and Canada to export 200 Y- 12 aircraft. K-8E jet trainer aircraft is the first whole-set technology export of China’s aero-products. AVIC II is also seeking to get involved in international 30-50 seater regional jet programmes. Subcontract value amounted to USD29 million in 2000.
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Finally, for the practical business of selling to China, China National Aero-Technology Import & Export Corporation (CATIC) owned by AVIC I and AVIC II, is the main procurement organisation, and had completed USD763.41 million of import and export by mid 2001, of which USD130.8 million are for the export of aero products. They also deal in the import and export of non aero products, including ships. Approved by SDPC, CATIC started from17th June to 5th July 2002 to issue loan totalled RMB1 billion for its K-8E aircraft’s export to Egypt.
China Aviation Supplies Import & Export Corporation (CASC) is a trading company specialising in import and export of civil aviation products, with annual import and export of more than 2 billion dollars, ranking number one among the Nation’s Top 500 Enterprises. Since 1980 when it was established, CASC has imported more than 700 commercial aircraft and wide range of ground support equipment, including communications, navigation aids, ATC systems, weather observation and forecast systems and special vehicles etc.
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GoldenDragonA larger pict of the PLAAF JH-7A from wfm
GoldenDragonA 053HT of the Royal Thai Navy, the Kraburi, washed aground by the tsunami.
GoldenDragon30 054s!!!
Also from Warships: 30 054s are ordered!?! and that it is based on the Sawari II?!?
The 30-vessel order had been posted on Chinese boards but there is no confirmation. The Sawari II as a base for the 054 is a new one to me. The Sawari is based on the La Fayette but a bit larger.
The Peoples Liberation Army Navy (PLAN) has ordered 30 new stealthy frigates of the Type 054 Class, of which two are currently under construction at the Hudong Shipyard in Shanghai and the Huangpu Shipyard in Guangzhou.
Originally believed to be a class of eight, these new warships have been chosen to replace Jianghu Class frigates, of which there are still 31 in service.
Two Type 054s are already in commission. Based on the short time it took for the first two to enter service, it is anticipated that the entire class of 30 frigates may have joined the fleet by around 2018, or even sooner, if more production lines are opened.
The 4,000 tons ships, with a length of 125m, are based on the Saudi Sawari II Class design.
However, the Chinese variant has a more advanced Anti-Air Warfare (AAW) capability, although the ships’ primary mission will be ASW and ASuW. The Type 054s are fitted with: The Chinese Giat 100mm/56 stealth gun mount on the forecastle; four Mashzavod AK-630 Close-in Weapon Systems (CIWS); an HQ-7 Surface-to-Air Missile (SAM) launch system; eight C-801 and C-802 SSMs and two Type 87 Anti-Submarine Warfare rocket launchers.
The Combined Diesel and Gas Turbine (CODAG) propulsion gives the ships a maximum speed of 28 knots and an operational range of 2500nm at 18 knots.
GoldenDragonThai OPVs
On the Thai OPVs (from Warships brief page):
http://www.warshipsifr.com/pages/signal.html
The Royal Thai Navy’s first Offshore Patrol Vessel (OPV) has been launched from the China State Shipbuilding Corporation (CSSC) yard in Shanghai. In late 2002 Thailand awarded a contract for the new vessels to the CSSC and Bangkok Naval Dockyard for the construction of two OPVs. The design of the 2,000 tons ship resembles a Chinese F22 Class frigate, but with a shortened forecastle. It retains the superstructure design.
The OPV will be fitted with a 76mm OTO Melara gun and FFBNW 8 Surface-to-Surface missiles. The flight-deck and hangar are suitable for operating a medium-size helicopter. The 85m long vessels have twin shafts and controllable pitch propellers plus are able to maintain a continuous speed of 23+ knots. Their operational range is about 3,500 nm.
GoldenDragonThailand had a submarine project in the 1990s and were supposed to tender for the German Type 209 or the Swedish Gotland.
That fell apart because of the cost overun in the fitting and operations of the carrier Chakri Naruebet and the 1998 Asian financial crisis. With the tsunami and the aftermath, I don’t know if the submarine program will be put off indefinitely. Especially since Thailand had ordered the latest two OPVs from China and there were discussions of another T25 FFG.
I highly doubt the Yuan will be exported to any one soon. If there are any SSKs to be exported ny China, it would be the mothballed Romeos (if anyone wants them.)
GoldenDragonI agree with You …. but are You sure that this is an early JH-7 wind tunnel model …. and if not, what is it then ????
Deino
Well, the shoulder-mounted wings, tailplanes, intakes, canopy and the dogtooth in the leading edges of the wings make it a JH-7 of some sort. The ventral fins are missing though so it is hard to tell whether it is an early model for testing the JH-7 or a later one for testing the JH-7A or something entirely new developed from the JH-7 base design.
GoldenDragonThats because they gave money instead
Actually, among the first and largest shipments of aid came in China Southern 747s to both Sri Lanka and Indonesia.
Xanadu wants to see the PLAN and PLAAF involved and that is something China doesn’t want to do very often outside its borders. Not the least of it has to do with China’s non-interference doctrine and partiallly because of American threat perceptions.
The US complained long and loud about 350 Chinese peacekeepers on Haiti so forget about Chinese warships streaming into the Indian Ocean which is basically an American lake that China had always avoided. They’ve enough trouble with Americans on the Chinese coastline.
GoldenDragon#94 6th January 2005, 00:05
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Fly GoldenDragon Airlines Join Date: Aug 2003
Posts: 2,755Those who think it’s a game will play it like a game. Those who don’t will simply donate money, supplies and rescue personel.
————————————————————————————Havent heard much of those supplies and rescue personel from the Chinese side.
Just go to Yahoo news and do a search, my friend. I’m not going to do a Blackcat here.
GoldenDragonYou mean like the minor technical fault at three mile island? There is covering up and covering up, but either is irrelevant to the fact that the Soviets asked for and were refused help from the west.
The Soviets never asked for help. How could you not know this?
In fact, the US offered and the Soviets rejected. The Russians did try to contact some non-government expertise. But they never asked for equipment, personel or otherwise. Just advice on the sly while continuing to coverup the seriousness of the situation, long after people were dying.
http://www.time.com/time/daily/chernobyl/860512.cover.html
Soviet officials were reluctant to seek much outside assistance while still trying to pretend that not much had happened. Tuesday morning at 8:10, a scientific liaison officer from the Soviet embassy in Bonn appeared, unannounced and without an appointment, at the office of the Atomforum, a nongovernment agency that represents West Germany’s nuclear power industry. He asked Atomforum’s Peter Haug if the Germans knew anyone who could advise his country on how to put out a graphite fire. A similar request went out the same day to the Swedish nuclear authority. The U.S. Government stepped forward to offer assistance, but the Soviets politely rejected it, saying that they had the means to deal with the situation. Moscow did invite Dr. Robert Gale, a UCLA bone-marrow-transplant specialist, to provide medical aid to Chernobyl victims.
GoldenDragonThat ugly JH-7 doesn’t necessarily mean that a plane will look like that.
Note the conical shape of the front of the intakes. Now obviously the intakes can’t possibly be built that way in real life. The intakes are shaped that way to compensate for certain conditions in wind tunnel testing. The same probably goes for the bent nose.
GoldenDragonA hell of a lot of hellfire missiles for the RoC’s Super Cobras and Kiowas. 400 of them, probably envisioned to be used against ships as much as AFVs.
http://www.heraldsun.news.com.au/common/story_page/0,5478,11865961%255E401,00.html
US to sell Taiwan missiles
From correspondents in Taipei
06jan05THE US has agreed to sell air-to-ground Hellfire missiles worth $US50 million ($64.33 million) to Taiwan, US defence giant Lockheed Martin Corporation said today, in a move expected to rile rival China.
“The US Army has executed a letter of agreement with Taiwan, setting the stage for the sale of more than 400 AGM-114M blast-fragmentation Hellfire rounds under a foreign military sales contract,” the company said in a statement.
It would take the company about six months to produce the Hellfire missiles ordered by Taiwan.
The missiles will be mounted on Taiwan’s Super Cobra AH-1W attack and OH-58D Kiowa Warrior scout helicopters.
In line with its practice of not commenting on arms purchase, Taiwan’s defence ministry declined to comment.
“Hellfire’s lethality and combat-proven performance, coupled with its precision-strike capability, provides the Taiwanese armed forces with the best air-to-ground weapon system in the world,” said Mark Stenger of Lockheed Martin Missiles and Fire Control in Orlando.
“In Afghanistan and Iraq, Hellfire not only proved to be superior against buildings, but was extremely effective against ships, light armour and urban targets.”
Taiwan’s decision to purchase Hellfire ensures its military’s interoperability with US armed forces deployed worldwide, the company said.
Despite Washington switching its diplomatic recognition from Taipei to Beijing in 1979, the US has remained the leading arms supplier to the island, which Beijing regards as part of its territory awaiting to be reunified by force if necessary.
China and Taiwan split in 1949 at the end of a civil war.
GoldenDragonCool plastic model! A 1/32?
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