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Maritime authorities issue new warning for Yellow Sea military activity; PLA updates on recent live-fire drills

By Global Times Published: Aug 17, 2022 01:07 PM



Photo: PLA Eastern Theater Command

Weihai maritime safety authorities issued a passage warning on early Wednesday morning that military activities will be carried out in parts of the Yellow Sea waters starting from 8:30 am Wednesday to 5 pm Friday, during which vessels are forbidden from entering the waters in question, according to the website of China’s Maritime Safety Administration.

The PLA Southern Theater Command on Tuesday and Wednesday released articles and photos of its recent drills.

According to the PLA Southern Theater Command official WeChat public account on Tuesday, warplanes of some PLA naval air force brigades carried out a late-night confrontational combat training recently.

Training subjects during the training were described as “real combat-oriented” and included air defense combat, cover assault combat and battles to gain air supremacy, according to the official release.

An S-shape rapid turn and big-angle turn were also practiced. The warplanes returned smoothly early morning of the second day, with ground supporting forces standing ready for tasks including check-up and fueling for later deployment of the warplanes, the article said.

Pan Zhiqiang, a military officer with the training brigade, was quoted as saying in the official release that the recent round late-night training was carried out with high intensity, fast-paced tempo and large number of air forces, as well as under multiple kinds of special situations. “It further elevated the pilots’ combat skills and their all-time domain and all-weather combat capabilities.”

On Wednesday morning, the PLA Southern Theater Command continued to update information on another recent live-fire drills, during which PLA troopers practiced battalion tactics.

Pictures attached with the Wednesday release showed that tent building, bunker construction as well as battlefield emergency responding were practiced.

Also, at the real-trooper confrontation stage, the participating battalions conduct reconnaissance through drones. Multiple tactics were verified during the training.

Heavy machine gun shootings, single-man rocket shooting at night and single-man shooting at night were also seen in pictures in the release.

The PLA Eastern Theater Command on Monday has also organized multi-unit joint combat readiness patrols and live-fire drills in the sea areas and airspace around Taiwan island, after five US lawmakers visited Taiwan island just 12 days following House speaker Nancy Pelosi's visit.

The Eastern Theater Command updated on its WeChat public account on Wednesday that recently an air defense force of a coastal defense brigade went to a certain area in the Southeast China to carry out live-fire drills to further test their firepower strike capability.

Pictures show that the air defense force fired missiles and shot down the target enemy aircraft in a precise and rapid fashion.

Global Times

Source Editor Li Jiayao Time 2022-08-17 23:41:46

According to the annual China-Russia military cooperation plan and consensus reached by the two sides, the Chinese People’s Liberation Army will send some troops to Russia to take part in the Vostok (East)-2022 strategic exercise. Countries including India, Belarus, Tajikistan, and Mongolia will also send troops for the exercise.


The Chinese military's participation in the exercise is unrelated to the current international and regional situation, but designed to deepen practical and friendly cooperation with the militaries of participating countries, enhance the level of strategic coordination and strengthen the ability to cope with various security threats.


The Russian Defense Ministry said this will be from August 30 to September 5.

Tank Biathlon round 2 highlight:

After loading up main gun ammo the Russian tank broke down, so they drove back to the starting line to fetch the other tank but didn't unload the ammo. The backup tank went to the ammo spot to pick up the backup ammo and made the shoot but missed one target. As there are no ammo for them to fetch to try to hit the remaining target they end up doing a penalty lap. The rest was uneventful for the Russians and they finished with 30:47 on the clock. Then the Russians fired up their chronosphere which they clearly captured from the Allies and adjusted their time to "compensate" for the tank break down and gave themselves a final time of 22:12. Shilao's comment was "now that's what I call Soviet Revisionism".

For the PLA when they where engaging the helicopter target with the heavy machine gun the commander got off 9 shots without the target showing smoke. He then went screw it I know what I hit and mag dumped the rest of the belt. Afterwards they checked the target and there were 7 holes on it...

PLA ended up coming second with 24:48

China to join Vostok-2022 Russia with other countries; closer China-Russia ties 'crucial to defend global stability to counter US hegemony'

Closer China-Russia ties crucial to defend global stability to counter US hegemony: analysts

By GT staff reporters Published: Aug 18, 2022 09:49 PM



The armored assault group rumbles ahead to launch an assault against the forward position of mock terrorists in the China-Russia joint military exercise ZAPAD/INTERACTION-2021 at a training base of the PLA Army in Qingtongxia City of northwest China's Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region from August 9 to 13, 2021. Photo:China Military

Chinese troops will go to Russia to participate in the joint military exercises Vostok-2022 with Russia and other countries, according to China's Defense Ministry and experts pointed out that one focus of this year's combined training is to deal with potential threat from the direction of the Pacific Ocean. The cooperation in military and other fields between China and Russia will be further improved despite the increasing hype that the US and the West are the only ones committed in the mission of defending regional and global stability.

China's participation in the military exercises was in accordance with the annual plan for cooperation between the militaries of China and Russia and the bilateral agreements. It has nothing to do with the current international and regional situation, China's Ministry of National Defense said in a statement on Wednesday.

The statement also noted that the aim for the PLA to participate in the exercises is to deepen concrete and friendly cooperation with militaries from other countries that also attend the exercises and to improve the strategic coordination and capability in dealing with different security threats. India, Belarus, Mongolia, Tajikistan and other countries will also attend the joint military exercises.

In July, the Russian Defense Ministry announced to hold the Vostok-2022 exercises from August 30 to September 5. And the exercises will practice employing combat groups in ensuring military security in the eastern region and the drills will bring together the airborne force, long-range and military transport aircraft and also military contingents from other countries, according to Russian news agency TASS.

The Vostok-2022 will take place in Russia's eastern region, while Russian troops in the western and southern regions have played a bigger role in the conflict with Ukraine. By holding this year's drills, Russia also wants to show that is has the capability to defend national security in multiple directions, Song Zhongping, a Chinese military expert and TV commentator, told the Global Times on Thursday.

The US and Western media have also paid close attention to the drills against the backdrop of the current Russia-Ukraine conflict. Some even claimed that Russia is allegedly carrying out some mobilization measures. The Russian defense ministry refuted the disinformation and said in a statement in July that only a part of the Russian Armed Forces is involved in the special military operation in Ukraine and the drills will be provided with the required personnel, armaments, military hardware and materiel.


A China-Russia joint naval ships formation sails in the East China Sea on October 23, 2021. Photo: Li Tang

Russia's strategic command and staff drills are very significant and have been held annually for the past four years in different regions. In 2021, Belarus, India, Pakistan, Mongolia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Armenia and Sri Lanka attended the Zapad-2021 drills in Russia's Nizhny Novgorod region, analysts said.

China attended the previous three strategic drills and had reportedly sent a lot of troops to overseas in 2018, according to analysts on military. The Chinese military did not participate in the 2021 edition as in August 2021 China and Russia held joint military drills.

Compared to the previous four drills, which focused more on fighting against separatism, terrorism and extremism, Vostok-2022 will combine exercises in traditional and non-traditional fields and also take target drills on possible threats especially from the US in the Pacific Ocean direction, Song said.

China and Russia, as comprehensive strategic partners of coordination for a new era, have improved cooperation in all sectors and so were exchanges in military, including on military technologies, weaponry and having combined trainings, Song noted.

The Vostok-2022 exercises are first and foremost prescribed drills every year but this year's drills have been used by the US and the West to further hype China and Russia threats under special circumstances, especially in the Russia-Ukraine conflict and the unstable situation across the Taiwan Straits, Cui Heng, an assistant research fellow from the Center for Russian Studies of East China Normal University, told the Global Times on Thursday.

US State Department spokesman Ned Price told reporters Wednesday that Washington is troubled by the "burgeoning relationship in the security realm" between Moscow and Beijing after Russian President Vladimir Putin criticized House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's provocative trip to the island of Taiwan.

In response to the US and West's hyping, Song said that the answer to why China and Russia need to further their cooperation is clear because the world is facing various threats and the two countries with their comprehensive strategic partnership need to strengthen cooperation to defend regional and global stability.

"As the two countries have entered into the comprehensive strategic partnership in the new era, the cooperation between the two militaries will surely be further improved. If the US can rally allies in the EU and in Asia to conduct militaries globally with NATO members, South Korea, Japan, Australia or other countries, why can't China have military drills with Russia?" Song asked. He noted that compared to the those of the US and its allies, China and Russia's drills are restrained, although such joint exercises between the two countries will become frequent and normalized.

The US has conducted multiple military drills with its Asian allies and will do so in the coming months. For example, from August 8 to 14, the US, Japan and South Korea participated in a missile warning and ballistic missile search and tracking exercise during the multinational Pacific Dragon exercise off the coast of the Pacific Missile Range Facility in Hawaii. And From August 22 to September 1, the US and South Korea will have their biggest combine military training with potentially tens of thousands of troops involved, US media reported.

Analysts said that the US and the West have ramped up efforts in demonizing Russia since the Ukraine crisis and compared the situation in Ukraine with the Taiwan Straits to hype "China threats." They have taken China and Russia as a major threat to US' global hegemony and the last thing they want to see is better and closer relations of the two countries.

It is a rational choice for China and Russia to embrace and help each other as they face US' efforts aimed at containing them, Cui said, highlighting that it is also a general trend to strengthen military cooperation between the two countries, which however, has nothing to do with the conflict between Russia and Ukraine but is rooted in the continuous strengthening of hegemony and unilateralism pursued by the US since the 20th century.

Cui said that China and Russia's cooperation is a positive force to defend the international order amid the challenges the US and its allies posed.

Experts also noted that the bilateral cooperation between China and Russia is an indispensable and constructive force for regional security, especially in Eurasia. The US has made a lot of troubles in the region, countries like Afghanistan and Syria are still suffering from the destruction caused by US-inflicted wars, and it is not only the neighboring countries like China and Russia that have to clean up the mess.

On the one hand, the US-led West made up the "China threat" and "Russia threat" to reshape NATO and other alliances, for the sake of forcing them to rely more on the US. On the other hand, the so-called threats from China and Russia have enabled US domestic military-industrial financial groups to ask Congress for more military budgets, Cui said.

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I was looking through that article trying to figure out how they estimate these costs and I'm not impressed.
For example they claim an R-squared adjusted of 0.92 for predicting fixed-wing aircraft but the shown graphs appear to have large residuals and the sample sizes are tiny. They appear be using sample sizes of around 17-20 which doesn't inspire confidence on it's predictive power.

They acknowledge the significant differences between platforms of US and Chinese weapons, but handwave it away in the next sentence by saying they picked the closest physical US analog for their cost analogy. And according to them these analogs were picked based on physical characteristics, no concern given for different production years or industry states.

Further reading yields more of the same. No adjustment made for the vastly different industrial states of the US and China. For example, I would expect the Chinese navy to be significantly cheaper in relation to the other branches than the balance that exists in the US since the US no longer has any civilian shipbuilding. Nor the relative cost differences that must be being imparted by advances in manufacturing techniques such as those in solid-fueled rockets. It's all handwaved away.

Using relative costs is an interesting idea, but the deficiencies in the model and results yields very little of the desired insight into PLA modernization trajectory. Actually tells me more about the US's trajectory than anything else.

Not going to even wade into whether or not their sources are worthwhile.

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hope its capable of delivering more than a couple of MRE's, also giving away your teams position. This seems like a solution searching for a problem.

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hope its capable of delivering more than a couple of MRE's, also giving away your teams position. This seems like a solution searching for a problem.

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It's a drone that can carry stuff, as long as it's within the carriable weight then it shouldn't be a problem. It can also drop stuff much further back like a FOB. Like always, these guys always have questionable/worst takes for the TV. No wonder people always complain about soft power. I sometimes feel like these guys do more harm to our image than anything else, maybe on par with Chinese internet trolls.