CHINA TOPIX

11/23/2024 06:59:26 pm

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Power

Chinese Think Tank sees Very Small Prospect for War between US and China over South China Sea

The report said this small prospect for war also holds for the adjacent areas of the South China Sea.

Patents

Chinese Inventors Top World Patent Applications in 2015, but only 4% are Filed Outside China

Patent applications abroad from Japan, Germany and France were each larger than those from China.

They're everywhere

Discovery of 1,445 Viruses in Invertebrates Shows Link between these Animals and Human Diseases

"It's remarkable that invertebrates like insects carry so very many viruses."

World beater?

China Brags its Untested VLRAAM can Defeat US Navy Airpower

This disadvantage means the easily detectible J-16 can be easily engaged at long range by U.S. fighters.

Too expensive

Russia Plans to Develop its First True Fire-and-Forget Anti-Tank Missile

The army is considering a next generation self-propelled ATGM system.

Our best?

Aging T-72 tanks to Lead Russian Attack against NATO; not T-14 Armata

The Russian Army, however, only has some 600 T-72B3 MBTs in service. It's still receiving the T-72B3, its best tank.

Stealth jet

US Marine F-35B Stealth Fighters now Operational from US Navy ‘Small Carriers’

The success in transforming LHDs and LHAs into "small carriers" gives powerful teeth to the new U.S. Navy doctrine of "distributed lethality."

Now in China

Russia Promises to Deliver First 4 Su-35S Fighter Jets to China in December

It's long been known China's main interest isn't the Su-35S itself but the jet's thrust vectoring Saturn 117S engines.

Jawan weapon

India to Acquire 2 Million Modern Assault Rifles and Other Small Arms; Kalashnikov in the Hunt

Most of these small arms are expected to be bought from Indian companies to support the Make in India campaign.

GSOMIA

South Korea and Japan to Accelerate Information Sharing about North Korea under New Pact

"The pact will allow South Korea to directly share information on Pyongyang obtained by Japan without having to go through the United States"

Record year

China Poised to Attain 25 Successful Satellite Launches in 2016; a New National Record for a Single Year

China's latest success was the orbiting on Nov. 22 of the Tianlian 1-04 geosynchronous satellite

Warship killer

New Indian Navy Next Generation Stealth Corvettes to be Optimized for Sinking Chinese Warships

The Next Generation Corvettes will be the first corvettes built to destroy surface warships.

Huge

India’s Rustom-II Aerial Drone to Conduct 24 hour Spying; will Later be Armed with Missiles

Future iterations of Rustom-11, however, will see the drone armed with air-to-ground missiles and smart bombs.

Welcome

Indian Navy Commissions INS Chennai, its Most Modern Guided Missile Destroyer

She is the third and last of the three ship Kolkata-class commissioned into the Navy.

Testing

DARPA Pushes Ahead with VTOL Project to Transform US Navy Warships into Aircraft Carriers

TERN will initially be designed for reconnaissance missions but will ultimately be turned into a weapons system carrying the Navy's full range of air-to-ground missiles and guided bombs.

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