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The People's Liberation Army Navy (PLAN) is the naval arm of the People's Liberation Army (PLA), the military of the People's Republic of China. Until the early 1990s, the navy performed a subordinate role to the PLA land forces. The PLAN also includes 35,000 Coastal Defence Force and 56,000 Naval infantry/Marines, plus a 56,000 PLAN Aviation operating several hundred landbased aircraft and shipbased helicopters. The original strategy of the PLAN was a combination of Maoist guerrilla warfare and the Soviet young officers school. Image File history File links The naval jack of the Peoples Republic of China. ...
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Alternate meaning: Shining Path The Peoples Liberation Army (PLA) (Traditional Chinese: 人民解放軍, Simplified Chinese: 人民解放军, pinyin: Rénmín Jiěfàng Jūn), which includes an army, navy, air force, and strategic nuclear forces, serves as the military of the Peoples Republic of China (PRC). ...
Jump to: navigation, search Flag of the Peoples Liberation Army Ground Force The Peoples Liberation Army (PLA) deploys over 8,000 tanks, 4,000 armoured vehicles, and 25,000 artillery pieces. ...
The Peoples Liberation Army Marine Corps is the amphibious arm of the Peoples Liberation Army Navy. ...
The Peoples Liberation Army Naval Air Force (PLANAF) (解放军海军航空兵) is the naval aviation branch of the Peoples Liberation Army Navy. ...
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History In 1949, Mao Zedong asserted that "to oppose imperialist aggression, we must build a powerful navy." The Naval Academy was set up at Dalian in March 1950, mostly with Soviet instructors. The Navy was established in September 1950 by consolidating regional naval forces under General Staff Department command in Jiangyan, now in Taizhou, Jiangsu province. It then consisted of a motley collection of ships and boats acquired from the Guomindang forces. The Naval Air Force was added two years later. By 1954 an estimated 2,500 Soviet naval advisers were in China--possibly one adviser to every thirty Chinese naval personnel--and the Soviet Union began providing modern ships. With Soviet assistance, the navy reorganized in 1954 and 1955 into the North Sea Fleet, East Sea Fleet, and South Sea Fleet, and a corps of admirals and other naval officers was established from the ranks of the ground forces. In shipbuilding the Soviets first assisted the Chinese, then the Chinese copied Soviet designs without assistance, and finally the Chinese produced vessels of their own design. Eventually Soviet assistance progressed to the point that a joint Sino-Soviet Pacific Ocean fleet was under discussion. Jump to: navigation, search Mao Zedong [▶] (December 26, 1893 – September 9, 1976; Mao Tse-tung in Wade-Giles) was the chairman of the Politburo of the Communist Party of China from 1943 and the chairman of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China from 1945 until his death. ...
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Jump to: navigation, search 1950 was a common year starting on Sunday (link will take you to calendar). ...
Jiangyan is a city in the prefecture of Taizhou in Jiangsu province, China. ...
Taizhou is a central city in Jiangsu province, China. ...
Jiangsu (Simplified Chinese: 江è‹; Traditional Chinese: 江蘇; pinyin: ; Wade-Giles: Chiang-su; Postal System Pinyin: Kiangsu) is a province of the Peoples Republic of China, located along the east coast of the country. ...
The Kuomintang (KMT) or Nationalist Party of China (Traditional Chinese: 中國國民黨; Simplified Chinese: 中国国民党; pinyin: Zhōngguó Guómíndǎng; Wade-Giles: Chung-kuo Kuo-min-tang; Tongyong Pinyin: Jhongguo Guomindang; literally the National Peoples Party of China) is a conservative political party currently active in the Republic of China (ROC) on...
The word admiral comes from the Arabic term amir-al-bahr meaning commander of the seas. ...
Through the upheavals of the late 1950s and 1960s the Navy remained relatively undisturbed. Under the leadership of Minister of National Defense Lin Biao, large investments were made in naval construction during the frugal years immediately after the Great Leap Forward. During the Cultural Revolution, a number of top naval commissars and commanders were purged, and naval forces were used to suppress a revolt in Wuhan in July 1967, but the service largely avoided the turmoil affecting the country. Although it paid lip service to Mao and assigned political commissars aboard ships, the Navy continued to train, build, and maintain the fleets. Jump to: navigation, search // Events and trends and events and trends and events and trends The 1950s in Western society was marked with a sharp rise in the economy for the first time in almost 30 years and return to the 1920s-type consumer society built on credit and boom...
Jump to: navigation, search The 1960s in its most obvious sense refers to the decade between 1960 and 1969, but the expression has taken on a wider meaning over the past twenty years. ...
Lin Biao Lin Biao (Chinese: 林彪; pinyin: ; Wade-Giles: Lin Piao) (December 5, 1907 - September 13, 1971) was a Chinese Communist military and political leader, once known as Mao Zedongs comrade-in-arms and likely successor, but later discredited as a traitor. ...
Jump to: navigation, search The Great Leap Forward (Simplified Chinese: 大跃进; Traditional Chinese: 大èºé€²; pinyin: ) was a campaign by the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) of the Peoples Republic of China from 1958 to early 1960 aimed at using mainland Chinas plentiful supply of cheap labor to rapidly industrialize the country. ...
Jump to: navigation, search A poster during the Cultural Revolution. ...
Location within China Modern and ancient Wuhan (Simplified Chinese: æ¦æ±‰; Traditional Chinese: æ¦æ¼¢; pinyin: ) is the capital of Hubei province, and is the largest and most populated city in central China. ...
1967 was a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ...
In the 1970s, when approximately 20 percent of the defense budget allocated to naval forces, the Navy grew dramatically. The conventional submarine force increased from 35 to 100 boats, the number of missile-carrying ships grew from 20 to 200, and the production of larger surface ships, including support ships for oceangoing operations, increased. The Navy also began development of nuclear-powered attack submarines and nuclear-powered ballistic missile submarines. Source: http://www. ...
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In the 1980s, under the leadership of Chief Naval Commander Liu Huaqing, the Navy developed into a regional naval power with some blue-water capabilities. Naval construction continued at a level somewhat below the 1970s rate. Modernization efforts encompassed higher educational and technical standards for personnel; reformulation of the traditional coastal defense doctrine and force structure in favor of more blue-water operations; and training in naval combined-arms operations involving submarine, surface, naval aviation, and coastal defense forces. Examples of the expansion of China's blue-water naval capabilities were the 1980 recovery of an intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) in the Western Pacific by a twenty-ship fleet, extended naval operations in the South China Sea in 1984 and 1985, and the visit of two naval ships to three South Asian nations in 1985. In 1982 the Navy conducted a successful test of an underwater-launched ballistic missile. The Navy also had some success in developing a variety of ship-to-ship, ship-to-shore, shore-to-ship, and air-to-ship missiles, improving basic capabilities. Jump to: navigation, search Liu Huaqing (劉è¯æ¸…, pinyin liu2 hua2 qing1) (b. ...
A Minuteman III missile soars after a test launch. ...
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Strategy, Plans, Priorities In recent years, the PLAN has become more prominent owing to a change in Chinese strategic priorities. The new strategic threats include conflict with the United States and/or a resurgent Japan in areas such as Taiwan or the Spratly Islands.
As part of its overall program of naval modernization, the PLAN has a long term plan of developing a blue water navy; there has also been interest on the part of the PLAN in building or acquiring an aircraft carrier. However the carrier idea appears to have a lower priority than other efforts to upgrade and expand the PLAN's aircraft, submarine and smaller ship forces. Most naval analysts believe that, without significant overall naval modernization, a PLAN aircraft carrier at present would be militarily useless and would take resources away from other parts of the military. This assessment appears to be shared by the Chinese military and political leadership. Few navies of the world can be considered to be blue water navies. ...
An aircraft carrier is a warship whose main role is to deploy and recover aircraft—in effect acting as a sea-going airbase. ...
In June 2005, it was reported by boxun.com that China would build a 30 billion yuan (US$362 million) carrier with a displacement of 78,000 tons, to be built by the Jiangnan Shipyard in Shanghai. The rumor was dismissed by defense official Zhang Guangqin. 2005 : January - February - March - April - May - June - July - August - September - October - November - December- → Deaths in June June 27: Shelby Foote June 27: John T. Walton June 26: Richard Whiteley June 25: John Fiedler June 25: Chet Helms June 24: Paul Winchell June 21: Jaime Cardinal Sin June 20: Jack Kilby...
Jump to: navigation, search Shanghai (Chinese: 上海; pinyin: ; Shanghainese IPA: ), situated on the banks of the Yangtze River Delta, is Chinas largest city. ...
Major Upgrades in the 21st Century China has made serious headway in just the last few years by increasing the strength of its Navy with the purchase of Sovremenny class destroyers and Kilo class submarines. The first two destroyers were equipped with the deadly SS-N-22 missile that has been dubbed an "aircraft-carrier killer" by many Western defence analysts. Furthermore, two improved versions of the destroyer are equipped with more numerous, improved versions of the missile called the Yakhont, and several more of those ships are being built. The Sovremenny Class destroyer is the main anti-surface combatant of the Russian Navy. ...
The Yunes, an Iranian submarine of the Kilo class Kilo class is the NATO reporting name for a type of military diesel-electric submarines that are made in Russia. ...
SS-N-22 Sunburn (Russian designation: Moskit) is the NATO reporting name for two unrelated Soviet anti-ship missiles. ...
China's submarine fleet has also made major strides. The Kilo-class subs are very quiet, and are also equipped with two next-generation weapons: the Klub anti-ship cruise missile, and the VA-111 Shkval torpedo. Both weapons are extremely deadly and there are currently no Western defences available against them. Furthermore, many subs in the fleet including the Kilo are thought to have air-independent propulsion which would allow them to lie in wait underwater for long periods of time to surprise enemies. The VA-111 Shkval torpedo and its descendants are supercavitating torpedoes, developed by the Russian Navy. ...
Air-Independent Propulsion (AIP), is a term that encompasses technologies which allow a submarine to operate without the need to surface or use a snort mast to access atmospheric oxygen. ...
By 2006, it is expected that China will have three to four Song-class submarines, four old-generation Kilos, eight new-generation Kilos, and at least four Chinese-made Kilos of the new version. This would be combined with the four destroyers mentioned above, plus at least two Chinese-made Sovremenny destroyers. The acquisition of this submarine and destroyer production technology is a huge advantage for China and will likely positively affect other areas of naval construction as well.
Activities Chinese warships cruise near gas field claimed by Japan "on Sept. 9 near the Chunxiao gas field in the East China Sea — the site of a fierce Sino-Japan territorial dispute, Tokyo military officials said."
The warships included:
- 23,000-ton replenishment vessel
- 7,940-ton Sovremenny-class missile destroyer
- 6,000-ton missile observation support ship
- 1,702-ton Jianghu I-class missile frigate
- 1,702-ton Jianghu I-class missile frigate
Fleets The People's Liberation Army Navy is divided into three fleets. - the North Sea Fleet, headquartered in Qingdao, Shandong Province, patrols the Bohai Bay and the Yellow Sea. Its flag ship is DDG Harbin.
- the East Sea Fleet, headquartered in Ningbo, Zhejiang Province, patrols the East China Sea, which is called the Eastern Sea in Chinese. Its flag ship is J302 Chongmingdao.
- the South Sea Fleet, headquartered in Zhanjiang, Guangdong Province, patrols the South China Sea, or the South Sea in Chinese. Its flag ship is AOR/AK Nanchang.
Qingdao listen? (Simplified Chinese: é’å²›; Traditional Chinese: é’島; pinyin: ; Wade-Giles: Ching-tao; Postal System Pinyin: Tsingtao) is a port sub-provincial city in the Shandong province of China, a naval base, and a major industrial city located at the southern tip of the Shandong Peninsula, in Jiaozhou Bay, facing the...
Shandong (Simplified Chinese: 山东; Traditional Chinese: 山東; pinyin: Shāndōng; Wade-Giles: Shan-tung) is a coastal province of eastern Peoples Republic of China. ...
Bohai Bay is one of the three bays forming the Bohai Gulf, the innermost gulf of the China. ...
The Yellow Sea (in North and South Korea, it is also called the West Sea (strangely not disputed like East Sea) is the northern part of the East China Sea, which in turn is a part of the Pacific Ocean. ...
Ningbo (Simplified Chinese: 宁波; Traditional Chinese: 寧波; pinyin: ; Wade-Giles: Ning-po; literally Tranquil Waves) is a seaport sub-provincial city in the Zhejiang province of China. ...
Zhejiang (Chinese: 浙江; pinyin: Zhèjiāng; Wade-Giles: Che-chiang; Postal System Pinyin: Chehkiang or Chekiang) is a eastern coastal province of the Peoples Republic of China. ...
The East China Sea, showing surrounding countries. ...
Location of Zhanjiang Zhanjiang (湛江) is a city in Guangdong province, in southeast China. ...
Guangdong (Simplified Chinese: 广东; Traditional Chinese: 廣東; pinyin: Guǎngdōng; Wade-Giles: Kuang-tung; Kwangtung in older transliteration; Cantonese: gwong2 dung1), is a province on the south coast of the Peoples Republic of China. ...
Jump to: navigation, search The South China Sea, showing surrounding countries and neighbouring seas and oceans The South China Sea is a marginal sea, part of the Pacific Ocean, encompassing an area from Singapore to the Strait of Taiwan of around 3,500,000 km². It is the largest sea...
Destroyers The Peoples Republic of China destroyer Harbin (DD 112) pulls into San Diego, Calif. ...
The Peoples Republic of China destroyer Harbin (DD 112) pulls into San Diego, Calif. ...
The Anshan-class destroyers of the Peoples Liberation Army Navy (PLAN) were the first destroyer units of China. ...
The Luda class (Type 051) missile destroyer were the first anti-ship oriented vessel ever designed and built in China, and the first Chinese ship to be fitted with a integrated combat direction system. ...
PLAN Harbin (112), a Type 052 Luhu-class destroyer, on manuevers during a fleet exercise. ...
The Type 051B Luhai-class is a class of destroyer built by the Peoples Republic of China. ...
Jump to: navigation, search Type 052C Haikou (171) The Type 052C Lanzhou-class is a class of destroyer built by the Peoples Republic of China. ...
The Type 052B Guangzhou-class is a class of destroyer built by the Peoples Republic of China. ...
The Sovremenny Class destroyer is the main anti-surface combatant of the Russian Navy. ...
The Sovremenny Class destroyer is the main anti-surface combatant of the Russian Navy. ...
Frigates - Type 054 - 2 ships + 2 ships building
- 'Jiangwei II' class - 10 ships
- Anqing ('Jiangwei') class - 4 ships
- Zigong ('Jianghu V') class - 6 ships
- Siping ('Jianghu IV') class - 1 ship
- Huangshi ('Jianghu III') class - 3 ships
- Xiamen ('Jianghu I/II') class - 21 ships
- Zuhai class - 1 ship (retired)
- Jinan class - 15 ships (retired)
Submarines - Type 091 Han class - 5 ships
- Type 092 Xia class - 1 ship
- Type 093 - 2 ships
- Type 094 - 1 ship building
- Type 033 Romeo class - mostly retired, ~20 remain in service
- Type 035 Ming class - version of Romeo, 17 ships
- Type 039 Song class - 7 ships + 3 under construction
- Kilo class - 9 ships with 3 more ordered from Russia
- Yuan class - version of Kilo, 1 ship + 1 under construction
The 4,500/5,500-ton Type 091 (US Dept of Defense designation Han-class) was the first nuclear-powered submarine class (SSN) deployed by the Peoples Liberation Army Navy starting in 1974. ...
The Xia-class submarine was the first ballistic missile-carrying, nuclear-powered submarine class (SSBN) deployed by the Peoples Liberation Army Navy, and is also known as the Type 92. ...
The Type 093 is a nuclear powered attack submarine class (it is also referred to by the NATO reporting name Shang-class) deployed by the Chinese navy, the PLAN. These boats are expected to replace the older Type 091 (Han-class) SSNs currently in service. ...
Jump to: navigation, search A submarine of the Romeo class The (NATO reporting name) Romeo class is a class of military patrol submarines that were built in the Soviet Union, the Peoples Republic of China, and North Korea. ...
A submarine of the Romeo class The Romeo class is a class of military patrol submarines that were built in the Soviet Union, the Peoples Republic of China, and North Korea. ...
The Yunes, an Iranian submarine of the Kilo class Kilo class is the NATO reporting name for a type of military diesel-electric submarines that are made in Russia. ...
See also Varyag was to be a Kuznetsov-class multirole aircraft carrier. ...
The Republic of China Navy (ä¸è¯æ°‘國海è»; pinyin: ZhÅnghuá MÃnguó HÇŽijÅ«n) is the maritime branch of the armed forces of the Republic of China (Taiwan). ...
See also Chinese military Ranks of the Peoples Liberation Army Categories: Military ranks by country | Military of the Peoples Republic of China ...
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