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Chinas new aircraft carrier

Posted on12. Oct, 2012 by .

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Should South East Asia be concerned? By S. M. Hali China joined the exclusive club of navies operating aircraft carriers with the unveiling of Liaoning, a former Soviet Union carrier. The vessel was commissioned in the last years of the Soviet Union, where it was known as the Varyag, before being sold to Chinese buyers by the [...]

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Chinese Aircraft Carrier-US Concerns

Posted on19. Aug, 2011 by .

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By S. M. Hali:
Analysts are claiming that they have not seen any catapult or arrester wire system on board from satellite photographs thus they are speculating that China will use its aircraft carrier only for helicopters. Without catapults or arrester wires, the carrier will not be able to operate any airborne early-warning aircraft needed to provide comprehensive radar coverage for fleets.

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China’s J-20 Stealth Fighter

Posted on01. Jan, 2011 by .

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By Bill Sweetman:
One question that may go unanswered for a long time concerns the degree to which cyberespionage has aided the development of the J-20. U.S. defense industry cybersecurity experts have cited 2006—close to the date when the J-20 program would have started—as the point at which they became aware of what was later named the advanced persistent threat (APT), a campaign of cyberintrusion aimed primarily at military and defense industries and characterized by sophisticated infiltration and exfiltration techniques.

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