This is a pretty basic post. It covers a selection of micro-videos that I have collected involving Chinese weapons systems and their use and application. These are pretty short videos. If you want to obtain a more comprehensive study of these weapons systems perhaps you should go to Janes and check out the “official” published data.
You-tube has some videos along these lines of course. Although, it’s limited pickin’s. As such, if you don’t like what is provided herein you can go out to You-tube and see what they have to offer. It will be a little different from what you will see here. Sort of like the difference between McDonald’s and a Howard Johnson’s Automat. Heh heh.
The videos herein are a mixture of official Chinese Navy / military promotional videos, and personal videos created by military enthusiasts in China. It’s the same as the USA. There are also American video productions, as well as videos made by military enthusiasts. Of course, being of a military nature, you will have the obligatory martial music in the background. It goes with the territory, don’t ya know.
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With all that being stated, let’s start with the primary role that the Chinese Navy is involved in…
Convoy Escort Duties
This is understandable. Someone needs to make sure all the cargo ships leave China and arrive in the United States, safe and sound and unmolested. Someone has to do it. Or did you actually believe that the “high seas” are safe and free and don’t need to be patrolled?
The United States doesn’t have the manpower, the time, or the resources to be everywhere.
With the United States busy fighting seven (x7) nations all over the world simultaneously, there just isn’t any resources left for America to combat international piracy on the high seas. So, the “wise ones” in Washington DC have decided that it would be best to be the world’s policeman, and leave the sea patrol duties to others.
The United States government has decided to abrogate this role to other nations.
America’s military is stretched pretty thin, being the world’s policeman, and all that. Like spreading (progressive) “democracy” to rural villages in the hinterlands, and other “important” duties. In fact, from what I gather the Neocons and Neolibs are fixing to get us all into another war. So, we’ve got to set some stuff aside for that “next big thing”.
Venezuela is gonna be the next big thud. You just wait and see.
By the way, can anyone tell me how the war in Yemen improves their lives? I'd really like to know. Heck we are only there because of Saudi Arabia. What have they done for you personally...?
Anyways, back to China.
China is the world’s producer. More than half of all international cargo leaves the ports of China and travels all over the world. With sizable shipments off to Japan, Russia, Europe and even the United States. In fact, the USA remains one of the top export destinations out of China. With a solid 11% of the exports out of China going to the United States. I guess would wouldn’t be able to tell by going to Wal-Mart, eh? </sarcasm>
That’s a lot of cheddar.
The ships that leave China are enormous vessels. Truly, and they are magnificent machines.
But, you know, these ships are often subject to hostile piracy on the high-seas.
The most notable areas are the international waters around Muslim nations. (Hey! It’s true. The piracy around the Philippines are all around the Muslim dominant islands, like the Palawan.) Not to mention, the Gulf, and the coasts of Africa. There, for decades, pirates have seized container ships and held the ships and crew for millions of dollars in ransom.
Millions and millions of dollars. All for a mere few hours of work.
This was a major problem as many shipping companies elected to have their crews on board these ships unarmed. A mystery to me, of course, but there you have it. It’s due to the compassion of the owners, I guess. This should not be a surprise to any one. Especially after Hollywood made a movie about it, and the (very) rare instances where the American Navy got involved.
What happens is that pirates come alongside the ships. They try to board the vessels from multiple entry points simultaneously. Then, once they get on board, they run up to the bridge, and seize the vessel.
Captain Richard Phillips, who was taken hostage by pirates during the 2009 hijacking of the MV Maersk Alabama, the first American cargo ship to be hijacked in 200 years. The film is based on Phillips’s book, A Captain’s Duty: Somali Pirates, Navy SEALS and Dangerous Days at Sea.
Piracy has always been an issue in the South China sea. (As well as other locations.) It goes back centuries with piracy a well-known and dangerous activity.
In the 1980’s it was noticed that huge numbers of unarmed freighters, bulk carriers, and other specialized multi-million dollar vessels loaded with hundred of millions of dollars of cargo was traveling forth from China to the rest of the world.
The pirates heard cash registers dinging, and had visions of mountains of bundles of one hundred-dollar-bills. They knew that the time was right to start taking advantage of the situation. They knew they could get away with it. No one has come after them seriously for many, many decades.
Bandits, and pirates started to ramp up their efforts to take advantage of this situation. They began to hijack these vessels.
Of course, as the hijackings started to increase in intensity, there were some reactions. Indeed. Politicians did what politicians do. There was a number of international summits, and “blue ribbon” teams set up to “study the issue”, yet the hijackings continued. Each time getting bolder and bolder.
The progressive liberal nations in Europe, such as Sweden and Germany, discussed reasoning with the pirates. They suggested such society friendly solutions as dropping leaflets on the pirate strongholds. They suggested training the ship crews in personal defense, such as non-lethal martial arts. They discussed taking turns patrolling the sea lanes.
Well, they really couldn’t agree on anything.
Australia, Japan, the Philippines and Indonesia were asked to patrol the sea lanes. And for a brief period of time, they did so, and the number of instances of piracy decreased. However, budget constraints forced the nations to restrict their activities, and these restrictions opened up “loopholes” that the pirates took advantage of.
While all there “high level” discussions were under-weigh, the hijackings continued unabated. As in all instances of this degree of severity, money talked. Companies started to question whether or not it was worth the cost to manufacture in China with the risk of piracy.
Thus, China started to get involved in fighting piracy on the South China Sea.
Under increasing international pressure, China started to set up bases and way points to “anchor” the zones of operation from which the Chinese Navy would operate within. Using these points they were able to provide maritime rescue and patrol operations at a level that we were previously unable to provide.
They also beefed up their Naval presence in the region.
About five years ago the piracy dropped off quite suddenly. And while you won’t read about what happened in the Wall Street Journal, or the Washington Post (they are too busy worrying about how many scoops of ice cream that Donald Trump gets to eat), the fact is that the primary reason for the reduction in piracy is the Chinese policy of monitoring the shipping lanes and sinking any pirates that are a threat.
Often, the ships travel in Chinese-protected convoys…
So, that’s pretty much the reason for all the Naval activity in the South China Sea. China is the world’s producer of products, and the vast bulk of the products travel by sea, through the South China Sea to their destinations.
For comparison purposes, it would be nice to show some videos or photos of the United States Navy protecting the sea lanes, and blowing pirate ships out of the water, but I have been unable to find any. America is too caught up in maintaining a progressive liberal world order.
Maybe these articles might shed some light on to this matter…
- Is the U.S. Navy Too Small to Protect Convoys?
- Is the U.S. Navy Too Small to Protect Convoys in a War?
- The U.S. Navy Has a Big Problem: It Can’t Do Convoys.
- US: Navy ship on Yemen coast to protect navigation
But why is the once proud United States unable to perform simple… simple convoy and patrol duties? Why, in goodness name?
The focus of our military has shifted from victory to satisfying the whims of politicians. Here’s a troubling thought – if you go to one of the service branches’ War Colleges and poll the faculty and students about America’s greatest strategic threat, as many as 50% of the respondents will tell you it is “climate change.” That’s not an exaggeration. Our military is supposed to be dealing with the Chinese military and its brain trust is obsessing about the weather in 100 years.
-We Are Going To Lose The Coming War With China
Of course, for fairness, we can provide a MSN, CNN, WaPo or FOX narrative. That’s the simple narrative. It provides cover for the Neocons and Neolibs to justify yet another war, and to justify send billions of dollars to Taiwan for their “defense”. LOL.
“China is “saber rattling” and has global ambitions to invade Japan, Indonesia, the Philippines, Taiwan, and Vietnam. Their shipping convoys, their bases on the various atolls, and their aircraft carrier is only to further their desire to engage in world-wide nuclear conflagration so that they can spread Communism around the globe. They need to do it, because soon they will run out of dogs to eat, and all the males will need to find girlfriends somewhere…”
And here’s a map, right from the mainstream American media showing where these “disputed islands” are. Yeah. Right smack dab in the fucking middle of Pirate Central.
Yeah. It’s a pretty silly narrative. You’ve got to admit.
Hey! But don’t believe me. Here’s some further links on the subject;
- Piracy In The South China Sea – SAFETY4SEA
- South China Sea: Pivotal quandaries in controlling piracy
- Piracy in the South China Sea: Petty Theft in Indonesia
- ACTS OF PIRACY IN THE SOUTH CHINA SEA
- The South China Sea and The Threat of Piracy
- Crime on the high seas: The world’s most pirated waters
- Piracy In The South China Sea: Lessons From Gulf Of Aden
- How much trade transits the South China Sea?
Ah, I think that I bet this horse to death. Moving on…
Aerial Refueling using a drogue
Here is a short video showing some Chinese aviation. I love the “Top Gun” feel about it. Naval Aviators all over the world are hard core. Best of the best boys. Enjoy.
Naval close air defense
So, you’ve got this American engineer. He’s been designing Naval Weapons systems for 30 years. Suddenly he gets laid off (on a Friday) and has no severance. No pension, but the company agrees to allow him to collect food stamps if he signs an NDA.
He has a family. He is living paycheck to paycheck. He was not planning to lose his job. It came right out of the blue. He has had years of excellent performance reviews. So what is he going to do? In shock, and surprise, he is told that he must leave.
So he does.
The NDA is a legal American document. Which means that for five years he cannot work for an American competitor.
So, what’s he going to do? Work at McDonald’s? Be at barrister at Starbucks at 50 years old? Go back to school to get reeducated? What can he do?
So what is a weapons scientist going to do? Is he going to bag groceries, end up divorced, and kill himself like the thousands of NASA scientists did when Nixon killed the Apollo Moon exploration program?
What are his options?
Well, many – not all mind you, but many go overseas. The world is hungry for American scientists, American engineers, and American talent. No. We are not talking about an MBA or a “bean counter”. We are not talking about machine operators or punch machinists. We are not talking about a line supervisor, or quality management. We are talking about design and systems engineers with multiple advanced science degrees and years upon years of experience. Both in the theoretical and the actual “hands on” regimes.
We are talking about the guys that invent, the guys that roll up their sleeves, and pick up the wrenches and screwdrivers. We are talking about the CAD geniuses that are equally adept in the test labs as they are filling out reports for their superiors.
We are talking about the engineers that are considered to be disposable by the MBA-lead company leadership.
Many of the weapons systems that you see deployed around the world were developed in part of whole by American engineers. This is most certainly true with China. For while America was downsizing during the Clinton Presidency (anyone remember the “peace dividend“?) the laid off scientists and engineers were being rehired elsewhere.
Elsewhere. Where do you think they went?
So when I read that Chinese weapons systems are substandard because “America has the best”, I have to laugh. They are the same.
The are the SAME.
American weapons systems are designed by Americans and manufactured with Chinese components. And now, you know the secret. So are Chinese weapons systems. Chinese weapons systems are designed by Americans and manufactured with Chinese components also.
It’s not just that some engineers prefer to work in their fields in a foreign land over living off welfare, or manual labor at a construction site. The entire nation of America is up for sale. Anyone with half a brain can see how the Clinton’s packaged and sold the USA for mere a fraction of it’s worth.
As such, foreign companies, not just China just simply buy up American companies for raw hard cash. Then they own the engineers, the design teams, the patents, the blueprints, the test fixtures, and the knowledge inside the skulls of the scientists there.
It’s not theft of American technology, when you actually own the company. Now is it?
Here’s some great footage…
China has 202 of the world’s 500 most powerful supercomputers — 60 more systems than in the United States. The largest radio telescope ever built — a massive, 500-meter, $180 million dish called the Aperture Spherical Telescope that hunts for distant black holes — is in the southern province of Guizhou, where its construction required 9,000 Chinese residents to relocate.
President Trump has directed NASA to return astronauts to the moon. But the moon may be crowded when they arrive: Both China and India are planning to launch landers toward the moon this year. China is collaborating with the European Space Agency on a potential moon base.
Last year, Chinese scientists produced “entangled photons,” light particles linked together on a quantum physics level, aboard a satellite in orbit 300 miles up. The particles were beamed to locations on Earth 750 miles apart and remained linked — which could potentially be a step toward a new form of instant and secure communication.
Also last year, biologists in China became the first to successfully clone a monkey using the technique that created Dolly the sheep. Genetically identical primates, their creators said, would speed medical research because the effects of any drug being tested could be traced to the treatment, not differences in genes.
Chinese leaders recently unveiled plans to become the world leader in artificial intelligence, aiming to turn the field into a $150 billion industry by 2030. Already, China’s artificial intelligence boom has led to advanced facial recognition. At a KFC restaurant in the eastern city of Hangzhou, for example, customers can now pay for their fried chicken using a machine that scans their faces. Baidu, China’s search-engine giant, plans to partner with an airport to roll out facial recognition for airline passengers this year.
-China increasingly challenges American dominance of science
Carrier landings
Check out this video. I’ve always loved carrier landings. As long as you hit the third wire, all is good. There’s some great footage of night landings. These ops are tricky as all get out, I’ll tell you what. Yes, it looks easy. It’s not.
The footage involves air superiority, no shake n’ bakes that I can tell. In fact, I haven’t found any footage of large ordnance load-outs. But, when I do, I’ll post em.
A Compilation of Ordnance Utilization
Just some “old fashioned” saturation fire with rockets. I think that this is 1950’s technology. Good to impress, but not really ideal for surgical operations and procedures.
During the Gulf War, our A-10’s chewed up these launchers in no time flat. They didn’t have much of a chance with the United States had full control of the airspace. They were simple sitting ducks. Oh, they made some nice explosions when targeted, but that’s about it.
Though, knowing what I do know about the Chinese, they would use them for other purposes than what they were designed for, and what everyone assumes on how they will be used. Eh?
Maybe as a snare…?
Chances are that the Chinese will not choose to fight our strengths. In fact, those chances total approximately 100%.
It’s called “asymmetrical warfare” in English. What it’s called in Chinese I have no idea, but Sun Tzu wrote about it. Don’t fight the enemy’s strength; fight his weakness. Strike where he is not. Spread confusion about your intentions; force him to lash out.
It’s all there in The Art of War; it’s just not clear anyone forming our current American military strategy has read it. Maybe they would if we labeled it “Third World” literature and said checking it out would check a diversity box for promotion.
-We Are Going To Lose The Coming War With China
And another…
Surface to Surface Munitions
Here are the weapons systems that will deliver tactical nukes and the “neutron bomb” technology that China has. And, no, they are not afraid to use it. The Chinese military philosophy is based on Sun Tzu’s teachings.
Or in other words, avoid war at all costs. Use every method at your disposal to achieve your goals. If they all fail, then you must engage in war. But, if you do need to engage in warfare then, DO NOT HOLD BACK and use everything at your disposal.
Someone had best shake those Neocons and Neolibs and tell them not to poke the panda.
China is a nation that is tired… tired… TIRED of war. They are not the United States where there all all kinds of wars left and right, but the citizens are protected and kept immune. No. Instead, China has had a front-row seat at war for many, many years.
They have no desire to engage in war if they can help it. Which is way this “saber rattling” mainstream media narrative is so ridiculous. The last war that they were involved in was in the middle 1970’s against Vietnam. Since then, the USA was involved in multiple wars every single year. More wars than I can count.
Can you, dear reader, name all the wars that the United States has fought since 1975?
The former president Jimmy Carter when talking with Donald Trump said he agreed with him. "And do you know why? I normalized diplomatic relations with China in 1979. Since 1979 do you know how many times China has been at war with anybody? None. And we have stayed at war," he said according to WABE.
You must understand that China is not handicapped by [1] an adversarial political party or [2] armies of paid protestors, and [3] a contrary main-stream media. The government enjoys nearly universal support from the population, and has no qualms about using nuclear weapons in the event that it is required.
This is not a surprise. We play wargames against the Chinese all the time, and we lose.
Oh, yes, aside from a handful of dissidents, most Chinese people are traditional, conservative, and fiercely nationalistic. Anyone who thinks otherwise has been smoking too much of that wacky weed, and drinking too much electric cool-aid.
State of the Art Bang-Bang
Here’s a nice video of one of the larger bore sniper rifles in use by the PLA. Ah, wouldn’t ya just love to play with this baby a bit? I certainly would, I’ll tell you what. It’s a wonderful monster.
Convoy Operations – Closure
Here, I want to present another video showing and depicting the convoy operations that the Chinese navy is pretty much involved in. For all the Western media attention on the occupation of various reefs and tiny islands around the Chinese mainland, they sure as heck leave out the context WHY.
(They also leave out the 700+ American military bases, and our militarization of reefs in international waters. Hey does Diego Garcia ring a bell, eh?)
If China wasn’t a global producer of products, they wouldn’t need to protect the shipping lanes. But they are, and so they do. It’s the same as when America was the global leader and America needed to fight off the Barbary Pirates. Different times, different nations, same situation.
Anyways…
China is a Global Power
China is a global power. There are many who are in denial about this, still clinging onto seriously out of date assumptions on everything about China. From their political structure, to their culture, to their intentions, to their society. This ignorance is dangerous.
This ignorance got the Untied States involved in 7 wars that WE ARE STILL FIGHTING. This ignorance got us paying billions of dollars to a NATO complex for a mission that is 50 years out of date. This ignorance is why the Untied States hasn’t any bullet trains, and why Americans are not on the Moon. Ignorance.
Our failure to treasure our conservative and traditional roots, and instead have allowed the crime and corruption of the progressive liberal lifestyle is precisely why America does not have bullet trains. It is why American pay so much in taxes and get so few back in return.
No one likes to be told that they have been lied to, misinformed, or manipulated. But it’s a fact Jack, or do you still believe that Donald Trump is a Russian spy? Do you still think that the media is accurately reporting on how he eats ice cream? Do you think that the mainstream media has your best interests at heart, or consider you simple farm animals to feed every now and again? Eh?
China is a global power and they have a global reach. One of the elements of this is their ability to travel anywhere in the globe and seize people from their safe-havens in Malaysia, New Zealand, the USA, the EU, Iceland, and Argentina.
Treaties have been created to permit the Chinese government to do exactly that. In fact, the United States is one such signer of this agreement. (Um, if you don’t like it, don’t get in my grill. You need to talk to the architect of all that globalism nonsense Mr. Bush and his enabler, Mr. Obama.)
The Chinese do NOT mess around. Look what they did with the missing Interpol chief, Meng Hongwei. Chinese authorities had admitted they were holding Meng under investigation by a new government anti-corruption unit for suspected “violations of the law”.
Or consider what has happened to the most famous actress in China, Bing Bing, when she was residing in Europe (by some accounts) and China wanted her to pay back taxes. Why, they went and seized her. They dragged her back to China, and threw her in prison until she paid. Read about it HERE.
If you want to mess with China, you best realize that they will come after you. They do not mess around. They are a serious, serious nation run by meritocracy. The rulers got there through hard work, not by political appointment and diversity scoring.
You cannot compare them to anything that we Americans are accustomed to. They are a different creature entirely.
Conclusion
Many people find offense in what I have to present. They find it irritating and disgusting. This is simply because it does not fit into the steady carefully crafted narrative that their entire world-view is based upon.
Yes, I know it’s hard. The discovery that Santa Claus is a lie is shocking to a five-year old. The discovery that boys have different ways of looking at girls is shocking to a 16 year old girl. The idea that you have to pay a significant portion of your paycheck in taxes is shocking to a young adult. The idea that the media of both sides of the political spectrum lies is shocking to all adults. Especially ones that believe that they understand how the world works.
Main-stream American / UK Narrative on China
- China is a full-on Communist nation.
- China is backward with rural folk flooding into the cities.
- China’s manufacturing is sub-par and crude.
- China violates “human rights” and has social grading.
- China has stolen, copied and abused to get where they are today.
- China is a threat, only due to their huge population.
- China isn’t full of hard, intelligent workers, it is a nation full of liars and swindlers.
China has changed and evolved rapidly in the last forty years. It is foolish to think that this is not the case, or that they did so in isolation. Their evolution has impacted the world, and it will continue to do so.
It is dangerously foolish to make assumptions. Especially assumptions on a nuclear power with leadership that got there through merit.
Make no mistake. China is a serious nation that does not play around. In their mind, the global stakes are far too serious, to handle lightly. They intend to give their best in the global arena, and they play to win. They view the rest of the world as a friendly-danger and that they must be ever vigilant. They cannot risk failure for it would be catastrophic.
They have seen what happened to the United States, and they do not want that ever to happen to China. They are ready to make sure that the crime, and decay of intense internal corruption will not sully the traditions, and cultural values of China.
A final word
I just have one last thing to say.
Americans today are waking up to the fact that the media lies to us. It is obvious to everyone after the 90% negative coverage of Donald J. Trump since 2016. This has caused liberals to be more circumspect about their news-reading habits, and has resulted in conservatives, saying “I told you so” to their liberal friends.
But, that point that I want to make is this. And, please please listen carefully.
All of the media lies.
All and every single one of them does. And yes, that includes the media outlets that you agree with. These include the outlets that you follow that are not liberal or progressive. Like FOX news for instance. All media lies to you. All of them do.
Do not believe anything that they say. Just don’t.
Americans are the most manipulated, lied to, farmed, subjugated, regulated, observed and taxed people in history. Wake the fuck up! Won’t ya!
The American dream has morphed into the American grift. And we normal people are the marks.
Let’s stop pretending. Let’s stop accepting the ruling class’s lies. And let’s stop lying to ourselves. America has changed. There used to be one standard, one set of laws, one set of rules. Now, there are two.
The one set of rules for normal people is designed to jam us up, to keep us down, to ensure that the power of the powerful never gets challenged.
And the one set of rules for the elite can be summed up like this: There are no rules.
-You’re A Sucker For Not Believing That The System Is Rigged
Best regards, and have fun in the pasture today.
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