Back in 2022, I made a partial list of villages which were being reconstructed and expanded by Chinese authorities. Chinese term for such villages was “Xiaokang (moderately prosperous) village”. In most such cases, old residential houses were being demolished and people were being forced or coerced in to moving in to new settlement close by […]
Tag: military
PLA’s Xinjiang Military Region Army Divisions structure text draft
This is a long story and I am being brief. Xinjiang Military Region (XMR) under Western Theatre Command (WTC) responsible for military operations in Xinjiang facing India, Pakistan and Central Asia. It has 4 army divisions (4th, 6th, 8th and 11th) which were the last to get a Combined Arms structure, the process for which […]
PLA Army Combined Arms Battalion Structure text draft
I am considering making detailed ORBAT graphics of various military units and trying to get the details right. The details I have shared in past need some updates too. Posting the raw text here before doing all the boring and difficult (for me) drawing work. This is the data I have for a generic PLA […]
Flaws in Chinese Defence Equipment: A Country-by-Country Breakdown
List of faulty exported Chinese defence equipment by countries. This is not a complete list: Pakistan Sri Lanka Bangladesh NepalAlmost all passenger aircraft grounded after a short period of use. Myanmar Nigeria80% of F-7 fighters grounded. KenyaVN-4 armoured vehicles have poor armour. OthersMultiple UAVs sold in the Middle East and Africa performed so poorly that […]
Theaterisation of Indian Military
Pakistani mobs at nuclear storage site.
Whole of Pakistan is in turmoil after arrest of former PM Imran Khan. Pakistani Army has shown restraint against the protestors even as houses of senior officers and cantonments are being burnt and looted. But they fired on protesters only at Rahwali cantt. It is interesting because this is one of bigger sites for storage […]
Chinese Armed Forces ORBAT Part 10: Fuel
This is a list of Chinese assets related to their oil infrastructure. The table below contains locations of military and some civilian oil & storage sites, refineries and a few more. As with other posts in this series, this is a work in progress and more details will be added in time. Raw data is […]
Chinese Armed Forces ORBAT Part 9: All airfields
Data in this post has some overlap with Part 5 of this series which covers PLA Air Force. But that data is a bit old by now. This post has list of all known airfields (680+) in China which include civilian airports, military air-bases of all arms, heliports, helipads, seaplane bases and some closed installations […]