China enhances A2/AD posture in Indo-Pacific with new anti-ship effectors
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02 Dec 2025
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Chinese Forces Battle Dizzying Altitudes to Expand Military Footprint
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05 Dec 2025
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It’s for border security” — China deploys robot-army near to the Vietnam’s frontier . While China braces for this new development, experts have shared potential abilities for the humanoids in the near future. They propose that these machines would take on more surveillance roles. But most importantly, they hope the technology can explore and monitor regions that are beyond human reach or comprehension.
As the technology continues to improve, these robots will soon be able to take on additional tasks like environmental inspections or emergency response systems. However, it is important to note that the goal isn’t to replace human personnel in this field. But instead, it is to reduce risk and limitations associated with and improve overall efficiency.
It’s for border security” — China deploys robot-army near to the Vietnam’s frontier . While China braces for this new development, experts have shared potential abilities for the humanoids in the near future. They propose that these machines would take on more surveillance roles. But most importantly, they hope the technology can explore and monitor regions that are beyond human reach or comprehension.
As the technology continues to improve, these robots will soon be able to take on additional tasks like environmental inspections or emergency response systems. However, it is important to note that the goal isn’t to replace human personnel in this field. But instead, it is to reduce risk and limitations associated with and improve overall efficiency.
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Chinese bombers deployed to Hotan during recent Indian exercises
Synthetic aperture radar (SAR) imagery captured at 1342L on 7 November 2025 continued to show four Xi'an H-6 bombers at the Hotan civil-military airport located approximately 230 km from the Indian border. It is unclear if the aircraft were armed at the time of image capture.
The bombers were parked on the south apron in line with two airborne early warning and control (AEW&C) platforms, a Shaanxi KJ-200 and a Shaanxi KJ-500, and 18 Flanker series fighters. On the north apron, SAR showed 12 Chengdu J-20 stealth fighters and four Xi'an Y-20-series strategic transports of which one was previously identified in electro-optical imagery as a YY-20 tanker variant. Three additional KJ-500s were also parked near the main terminal.
More recently, a pair of H-6s was deployed to Woody Island in September 2025 in response to joint exercises by the Philippines, Japan, and the United States.
Chinese bombers deployed to Hotan during recent Indian exercises
Synthetic aperture radar (SAR) imagery captured at 1342L on 7 November 2025 continued to show four Xi'an H-6 bombers at the Hotan civil-military airport located approximately 230 km from the Indian border. It is unclear if the aircraft were armed at the time of image capture.
The bombers were parked on the south apron in line with two airborne early warning and control (AEW&C) platforms, a Shaanxi KJ-200 and a Shaanxi KJ-500, and 18 Flanker series fighters. On the north apron, SAR showed 12 Chengdu J-20 stealth fighters and four Xi'an Y-20-series strategic transports of which one was previously identified in electro-optical imagery as a YY-20 tanker variant. Three additional KJ-500s were also parked near the main terminal.
More recently, a pair of H-6s was deployed to Woody Island in September 2025 in response to joint exercises by the Philippines, Japan, and the United States.
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^^ Probably done on purpose as a show of strength. The Chinese have enough covered shelters to hide them if required.
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Exposed Undersea: PLA Navy Officer Reflections on China’s Not-So-Silent Service
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24 June 2025
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24 June 2025
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Chinese Fighter Jet Exports Set To Grow Significantly
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24 Dec 2025
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24 Dec 2025
Pentagon report highlights how the trifecta of FC-31, J-10C, and JF-17 is helping China establish itself as an increasingly major player on the fighter market.
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Chinese Cargo Ship Packed Full Of Modular Missile Launchers Emerges
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25 Dec 2025
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25 Dec 2025
China has packed a deck of a medium-sized cargo ship with 60 containerized vertical launch cells, radar, and close-in weapons.
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Very innovative. It is similar to Group Technology.
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Image the number of moving targets their opponents now have to track and hit. This gives them a huge second-strike capabilityRakesh wrote: ↑26 Dec 2025 11:54 Chinese Cargo Ship Packed Full Of Modular Missile Launchers Emerges
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25 Dec 2025
China has packed a deck of a medium-sized cargo ship with 60 containerized vertical launch cells, radar, and close-in weapons.
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They can take out that arsenal ship first.,Manish_P wrote: ↑27 Dec 2025 20:21Image the number of moving targets their opponents now have to track and hit. This gives them a huge second-strike capabilityRakesh wrote: ↑26 Dec 2025 11:54 Chinese Cargo Ship Packed Full Of Modular Missile Launchers Emerges
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25 Dec 2025
i think this is more aligned towards the Taiwan take over " first blow" if it comes to that., they could as well camouflage such ships as "vanilla merchant/cargo "
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IIRC, cargo ships will not be targeted in a full-fledged war, or could they? What are the international laws regarding this, post-WW II? Anybody know?
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Fwiw...
T800 humanoid kung fu kicks its way to mass production
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23 Dec 2025
In fact, the demo looked so slick that the company had to release a behind-the-scenes video to counter online allegations that the demo was created using CGI. Even the EngineAI CEO, Zhao Tongyang – a veteran in the robotics field – posted an Instagram video where the T800 kicked him across the room. Extraordinary commitment to his product!
Matter of time, Chinese robots patrol the border. How would a border clash with Chinese robots look like ?!
EngineAI T800: Born to Disrupt!
T800 humanoid kung fu kicks its way to mass production
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23 Dec 2025
In fact, the demo looked so slick that the company had to release a behind-the-scenes video to counter online allegations that the demo was created using CGI. Even the EngineAI CEO, Zhao Tongyang – a veteran in the robotics field – posted an Instagram video where the T800 kicked him across the room. Extraordinary commitment to his product!
Matter of time, Chinese robots patrol the border. How would a border clash with Chinese robots look like ?!
EngineAI T800: Born to Disrupt!
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YJ-20 hypersonic missile filmed launching from Type 055 large destroyer in Chinese media report
https://www.globaltimes.cn/page/202512/1351645.shtml
28 Dec 2025
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28 Dec 2025
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For that you need to know which is an arsenal ship and which is a regular container ship... so in effect your Recce systems now need to expand their scan to hundreds of ships, identify the arsenal ships and then keep them under watch.
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No, they don't. If container ships are converted, then all container ships become legitimate targets. Even from the above article
Some will take major issue with this as it would supposedly ‘turn every ship into a target’ during a time of conflict, and certainly maritime lawyers would have insightful opinions on it, but the advantage of such a ready-to-go capability is clear.
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That is the point
Instead of tracking 'x' military ships the op-for now has to track, and be ready to attack, x + y ships (where 'y' is much, much larger than x)
That means a much larger amount of op-for hardware and logistical support assets will need to be spread over a much wider geographical footprint thereby reducing their ability to station overwhelming concentration of force at any one point.
And here is the comparison of the chinese commercial shipping vs the US
https://www.twz.com/alarming-navy-intel ... g-capacity
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How China Built an Arms Industry to Rival the West
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21 Dec 2025
^^^ https://x.com/Ignis_Rex/status/2005258178179801272?s=20 ---> The West Invented Military-Civil Fusion, But Fears China’s Scale. The Wall Street Journal’s recent article on China’s defense industry is yet another example of Western double standards. It frames Beijing’s military-civil fusion strategy as a dangerous innovation, as though China has crossed some unprecedented threshold. In reality, the United States pioneered this model decades ago, and its defense giants continue to thrive on it today. What unsettles Western analysts is not the method, but the scale at which China can now apply it.
Military-Civil Fusion: An American Blueprint
The concept of integrating civilian innovation into military projects was not born in Beijing—it was born in Washington. The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) was established in 1958 precisely to harness America’s scientific base for military supremacy. From the internet to GPS, DARPA blurred the line between civilian and military applications long before China adopted similar practices. The U.S. defense industry has always relied on corporate partners to sustain this fusion. Boeing, Lockheed Martin, and Northrop Grumman became extensions of the Pentagon, while newer firms like SpaceX and Palantir have embedded themselves deeply in U.S. military operations. To condemn China for integrating Huawei, AVIC, or other firms into defense projects is hypocrisy. The West wrote the playbook—it simply does not want China to use it.
China’s Scale Advantage
What Western analysts consistently miss is the industrial scale behind China’s defense buildup. China contributes more than 50% of global manufacturing capacity, and in critical sectors like drones and shipbuilding, its share exceeds 80%. This industrial base is not just about producing consumer goods—it creates redundancy and resilience in weapons production that the West cannot match. In a war of attrition, scale matters more than boutique innovation. The U.S. may produce stealth fighters or missile defense systems at high cost and low volume, but China can mass-produce ships, drones, and munitions at a pace that overwhelms adversaries. Western analysts, obsessed with technology gaps, often ignore this fundamental reality: industrial capacity is the ultimate strategic weapon.
Arms Exports and Influence
Western media frets about China’s growing arms exports, but ignores the fact that U.S. and European weapons dominate global conflicts. American arms sales are routinely tied to political conditions and alliance commitments. China’s exports, by contrast, are often framed as affordable tools for sovereignty. This is why many developing nations prefer Chinese systems—they are not instruments of dependency, but of independence.
The Real Anxiety
The West’s anxiety is not about China’s methods—it is about losing monopoly. For decades, the U.S. dictated the terms of global security through its technological edge and industrial dominance. Now, China’s ability to combine military-civil fusion with unmatched manufacturing scale threatens that dominance. Balance, however, is not aggression. It is deterrence.
Conclusion
Military-civil fusion is not a Chinese invention—it is an American one, perfected through DARPA and entrenched in partnerships with Boeing, Lockheed Martin, SpaceX, and Palantir. What makes China different is scale. With more than half of the world’s manufacturing capacity and overwhelming dominance in drones and shipbuilding, China can sustain weapon production in ways the West cannot. This is the reality most Western defense analysts miss: in a war of attrition, industrial capacity—not rhetoric—decides the outcome.
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21 Dec 2025
^^^ https://x.com/Ignis_Rex/status/2005258178179801272?s=20 ---> The West Invented Military-Civil Fusion, But Fears China’s Scale. The Wall Street Journal’s recent article on China’s defense industry is yet another example of Western double standards. It frames Beijing’s military-civil fusion strategy as a dangerous innovation, as though China has crossed some unprecedented threshold. In reality, the United States pioneered this model decades ago, and its defense giants continue to thrive on it today. What unsettles Western analysts is not the method, but the scale at which China can now apply it.
Military-Civil Fusion: An American Blueprint
The concept of integrating civilian innovation into military projects was not born in Beijing—it was born in Washington. The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) was established in 1958 precisely to harness America’s scientific base for military supremacy. From the internet to GPS, DARPA blurred the line between civilian and military applications long before China adopted similar practices. The U.S. defense industry has always relied on corporate partners to sustain this fusion. Boeing, Lockheed Martin, and Northrop Grumman became extensions of the Pentagon, while newer firms like SpaceX and Palantir have embedded themselves deeply in U.S. military operations. To condemn China for integrating Huawei, AVIC, or other firms into defense projects is hypocrisy. The West wrote the playbook—it simply does not want China to use it.
China’s Scale Advantage
What Western analysts consistently miss is the industrial scale behind China’s defense buildup. China contributes more than 50% of global manufacturing capacity, and in critical sectors like drones and shipbuilding, its share exceeds 80%. This industrial base is not just about producing consumer goods—it creates redundancy and resilience in weapons production that the West cannot match. In a war of attrition, scale matters more than boutique innovation. The U.S. may produce stealth fighters or missile defense systems at high cost and low volume, but China can mass-produce ships, drones, and munitions at a pace that overwhelms adversaries. Western analysts, obsessed with technology gaps, often ignore this fundamental reality: industrial capacity is the ultimate strategic weapon.
Arms Exports and Influence
Western media frets about China’s growing arms exports, but ignores the fact that U.S. and European weapons dominate global conflicts. American arms sales are routinely tied to political conditions and alliance commitments. China’s exports, by contrast, are often framed as affordable tools for sovereignty. This is why many developing nations prefer Chinese systems—they are not instruments of dependency, but of independence.
The Real Anxiety
The West’s anxiety is not about China’s methods—it is about losing monopoly. For decades, the U.S. dictated the terms of global security through its technological edge and industrial dominance. Now, China’s ability to combine military-civil fusion with unmatched manufacturing scale threatens that dominance. Balance, however, is not aggression. It is deterrence.
Conclusion
Military-civil fusion is not a Chinese invention—it is an American one, perfected through DARPA and entrenched in partnerships with Boeing, Lockheed Martin, SpaceX, and Palantir. What makes China different is scale. With more than half of the world’s manufacturing capacity and overwhelming dominance in drones and shipbuilding, China can sustain weapon production in ways the West cannot. This is the reality most Western defense analysts miss: in a war of attrition, industrial capacity—not rhetoric—decides the outcome.
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VIDEO: https://x.com/pati_marins64/status/2005 ... 33837?s=20 ---> The Chinese Drone Carrier: Not Just Power Projection, But a New Era in Naval Warfare. The Type 076 is a Chinese Navy amphibious assault ship with a full-load displacement exceeding 40,000 tons. It combines traditional amphibious warfare features with advanced drone operations, making it the world's first to be equipped with an electromagnetic catapult (EMALS) and arresting cables for launching and recovering fixed-wing aircraft, primarily unmanned reconnaissance and combat vehicles. Its amphibious role is similar to the Type 075, but it adds a full-length flight deck, electromagnetic catapult, and arresting gear, enabling operations with heavy, long-range fixed-wing drones that couldn't take off vertically like on the Type 075.
The real Chinese masterstroke is this: Catapult-launched drones provide long-range reconnaissance, real-time intelligence, and suppression of enemy defenses, while constantly searching for, tracking enemy units, and guiding missiles onto targets. All this while unload troops and equipment on beaches. Being amphibious extends its reach into true three-dimensional land operations: Helicopters handle rapid troop transport and close air support; Fixed-wing drones extend the range: surveillance beyond the horizon, strikes on distant targets, target acquisition, missile guidance, and electronic warfare; Well deck vehicles carry out the actual beach landing.
The result is a perfectly coordinated assault across multiple dimensions (air, sea, land), boosting both the efficiency and survivability of the landing force, while maintaining A2/AD through a vast network of airborne drones linked to the operational missile forces. What stands out in the Chinese war machine is the precise integration of everything. There are no gaps between equipment, planning, and execution. It's all extremely well connected. This is the pioneering drone carrier, the Type 076, while the Type 075 remains a more traditional helicopter-focused amphibious assault ship. There are persistent rumors of a future Type 077 or further evolutions, but nothing confirmed yet.
As I said in another article, the heart of Chinese target acquisition are drones, and they will build many of these drone carriers to expand that capability. These are far smaller investments than conventional aircraft carriers and much cheaper to produce. At the same time that China projects overwhelming power with its large ships, it is also building a cheaper fleet structure that's no less potent.
The real Chinese masterstroke is this: Catapult-launched drones provide long-range reconnaissance, real-time intelligence, and suppression of enemy defenses, while constantly searching for, tracking enemy units, and guiding missiles onto targets. All this while unload troops and equipment on beaches. Being amphibious extends its reach into true three-dimensional land operations: Helicopters handle rapid troop transport and close air support; Fixed-wing drones extend the range: surveillance beyond the horizon, strikes on distant targets, target acquisition, missile guidance, and electronic warfare; Well deck vehicles carry out the actual beach landing.
The result is a perfectly coordinated assault across multiple dimensions (air, sea, land), boosting both the efficiency and survivability of the landing force, while maintaining A2/AD through a vast network of airborne drones linked to the operational missile forces. What stands out in the Chinese war machine is the precise integration of everything. There are no gaps between equipment, planning, and execution. It's all extremely well connected. This is the pioneering drone carrier, the Type 076, while the Type 075 remains a more traditional helicopter-focused amphibious assault ship. There are persistent rumors of a future Type 077 or further evolutions, but nothing confirmed yet.
As I said in another article, the heart of Chinese target acquisition are drones, and they will build many of these drone carriers to expand that capability. These are far smaller investments than conventional aircraft carriers and much cheaper to produce. At the same time that China projects overwhelming power with its large ships, it is also building a cheaper fleet structure that's no less potent.
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What some experts, and some posters here, seem to miss, or rather not face up to, is the fact that Quantity and Quality need not be mutually exclusive. Both can be pursued at the same time by the same entity.Rakesh wrote: ↑29 Dec 2025 17:38 ^^^ https://x.com/Ignis_Rex/status/2005258178179801272?s=20 ---> The West Invented Military-Civil Fusion, But Fears China’s Scale. The Wall Street Journal’s recent article on China’s defense industry is yet another example of Western double standards. It frames Beijing’s military-civil fusion strategy as a dangerous innovation, as though China has crossed some unprecedented threshold. In reality, the United States pioneered this model decades ago, and its defense giants continue to thrive on it today. What unsettles Western analysts is not the method, but the scale at which China can now apply it.
The chinese mastered the first (helped by the west for their own selfish reasons) and are single mindedly pursuing the second (despite being hindered by the west again for their own selfish reasons)
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https://x.com/AlexLuck9/status/2005525032701993468?s=20 ---> Terrific high quality images of Type 076 LHA Sichuan docked at the old Hudong facility in Shanghai. I dont think we've seen the hull as clearly before. Via _p2p/Wb.
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At this stage, policy makers in India need to seriously reflect on how far behind India is. But the Govt appears to live in a world where it believes that diplomacy will win the day. Prevailing over China will not occur, as India never invested in her own MIC. A stalemate would be the best outcome for India in a future conflict. Unfortunately, even that bare minimum investment is not being made to reach that goal.Manish_P wrote: ↑29 Dec 2025 18:34 What some experts, and some posters here, seem to miss, or rather not face up to, is the fact that Quantity and Quality need not be mutually exclusive. Both can be pursued at the same time by the same entity.
The chinese mastered the first (helped by the west for their own selfish reasons) and are single mindedly pursuing the second (despite being hindered by the west again for their own selfish reasons)
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China Disguises ICBM Launchers as Construction Cranes
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Admiral sir I would be even more worried if it was the other way round - that the armed forces would believe that the Govt diplomacy alone would save the day while the Govt would believe that the armed forces will win the day with what they have...
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which is actually the whole idea , so the idea flips to cheaper and precise munitions at range