At Future Firepower we always keep the latest breaking news on the newest weaponry available to the United States Military and its allies. On top of following the technological advancements in weapons systems of the US, we also like to introduce the military capabilities of nations throughout the world. The People’s Liberation Army (PLA) of China has some very advanced weapons systems. Ballistic missiles and missile defense programs are paramount in Chinese military planning with the PLA carrying a number of advanced bombs and missiles. Everything from mobile artillery howitzers, to high-tech tanks such as the Type-99 and the lighter Type-96 as seen in the picture below can be found in the Chinese military.
On top of having an array of advanced ground vehicles, China also boasts an advanced naval force with large advanced submarines, and many worthy battleships but lacking aircraft carriers. The PLA also has a capable air-force, although it is nothing that could match the capabilities of NATO forces or the United States Military with the F-22 and many other reliable and proven fighters. The Jian-10, swept-wing fighter has been introduced by the Chinese air-force but the capabilities remain unclear.
There was speculation years back that the “star wars” program would spark a new weapons race and nothing could be more true as, once again, Russia, The US, and China are entering into a weapons space race. The United States militarization of space has caused uneasiness within China and Russia which has caused them to invest in their aerospace programs as well. One very frightening feat that China has been able to attain is the ability to destroy GPS and other military satellites owned by the US. China launched a vehicle into space intending to destroy an old weather satellite 500 miles in orbit and achieved their goal proving that they could indeed take out the ‘eyes’ of the United States military. The US military also admitted that China disabled a satellite while it orbited over China’s land mass using a directive energy weapon of some sort which produced a high power beam into the face of the satellite.
With China only spending 10% of what the United States does on military technology and expenditures, the PLA has some amazingly advanced technology. Some estimates say that Chinese military spending may spike to half that of the U.S in the foreseeable future. This would make the U.S government very uneasy.
Slideshow of Chine Military (PLA) weapons
Currently there is a weapons embargo between the European Union and the US with China. The Federation of American Scientists, a liberal group long known for its opposition to nuclear weapons, has come out against lifting the EU ban on arms sales to China.”Indeed, troubling transfers of Chinese military and dual-use equipment are numerous,” Matt Schroeder of the Federation of American Scientists, wrote recently.
8 Responses
China does NOT have aircraft carriers
Posted on February 4th, 2008 at 12:48 pm
The Americans and the EU will pay for their petty deed to obstruct the inevitable rise of a omnipower. China will rise, and the racists fools shall finally awaken to their pathetic destruction. Our power shall triumph and crush the infidels, and the milestone of our glory shall be the other’s downfall.
Posted on July 3rd, 2008 at 1:45 pm
Ok… That seems just like fascist material that the nazis worked on in WWII.
Posted on July 10th, 2008 at 5:19 am
i agre samuel
Posted on July 20th, 2008 at 12:03 am
The US better know the PLA is not Iraq/Kosovo where US and Nato planes can roam at will. Yes in showdown with the US the Chinese will lose. there is no doubt about that. but is the US prepared to pay the price for regime change in Beijing?
Furthermore the ability of the PLA to inflict unacceptable damamge on the US i s growing every second.OK The the US can destroy China 100 times but the ability of the PLA to wreak
havoc on the US will increase from ,my projection ath moment,20% to 50% by 2010.
What the US want is China that is weak like in the korean war or in 1996 where the US can deploy its aircraft carriers.Then it ican force the Chinese to kowtow.
I believe the PLA has factored in X US carriers in a showdown over the Taiwan.I am confident if the US were to send ten ac into the Tiawan tsraits they will be burning hulk.
So the days when the Chinese are weak like in the opium war are over.
Posted on October 9th, 2008 at 11:25 pm
I think this highlights the hypocrisy of the Americans. The Chinese are merely spending 10% of what US spends on military and yet it is the Chinese who are being painted as villains for even daring to think of upping its spending to half of what the US is spending.
Posted on November 14th, 2008 at 4:23 am
I’m sorry, we are the only current super power, people have already attacked for our ideals, we have had nothing but problems with communism in the past. Yeah your right, we should not worry when the only country in the world that can put forth a million man army increaseases enough defense funding to cover that. Idiot.
Posted on November 18th, 2008 at 12:14 am
If any American cares to turn back the pages of his history he will find out the US has been involved in most of the major wars since 1945. Korea,vietnam ,bosnia,Kosovo,Iraq to name those I know.Well the US didn’t get involved in the recent Georgia war because the logstics were not in their favour. Furhtermore it was Russia not a weak Middle East country like Iraq that can be pushed around. Of course if the US really want it could win but at the cost of a general war which is not worth the price.
If the American people are not careful,their leaders could suck them into war on the pretext of defending US armed forces.If readers care to read about the Tonkin incident they will find out it was manufactured to give Johnson the pretext to attack North vietna,m. 58000 US youth lost their lives.
I’m afraid that in the Taiwan scenario, an ac could be sacrificed to start a war with China. Just imagine 5000 innocent lives lost because the US president wants to destroy China.Of course it aint easy and straight forward. The PLA must be prepared and bf China is almost pulverised they inflict unacceptable damage on the US.
Fortuantely I believe that saner heads will prevail in the Pentagon and such a scenario is a remote possibility.The point is the US can’t attack China without being hit like in the 1954 and 1958 Taiwan crisis. Then Mao’s army was poorly equipped and at most could sink a few US ships. FF to 2008 it’s a different story and the amount of havoc the pla can wreak on the US homeland will increase even with the missile shield,Ineed not say China will be a pile smoke.
Posted on November 20th, 2008 at 11:08 am
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