#China Navy

[supplyside]

carrier comparison

[usafphantom2]

USN YF-4J Phantom II (BuNo 151473). This aircraft had originally been delivered as a F-4B. It was later converted to an YF-4J prototype. It is here on display at Holloman AFB, NM while in use as an ejection seat testbed by the U.S. Navy Naval Weapons Center (NAWC), China Lake, CA

@perpetuaosombro via X

[enriquemzn262]

Chinese Type 003 aircraft carrier Fujian (福建舰) in sea trials.

She’s the first supercarrier built outside the United States, and the first nom-nuclear powered vessel of this kind built since USS John F. Kennedy.

[jamesfitzjamesdotcom]

Captain Sherard Osborn (with white hat, who went on several Franklin search expeditions) and crew on the quarter deck of HMS Furious in China during the Second Opium War, c.1858. After Fitzjames he became Barrow jr's next bff.

[Barrow bequest, British Library]

[lonestarbattleship]

USS HOUSTON (CA-30) and USS AUGUSTA (CA-31) on the Wusong river (Suzhou Creek) in Shanghai, China. Photographed during the Sino-Japanese Hostilities.

Date: February 1932

University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee Library: pe000035, fr208399, pe001214, fr202530

[nocternalrandomness]

In the pattern at NAWS China Lake - KNID

[carbone14]

Bombardier Mitsubishi G3M Type 96 du Kisarazu Air Group au-dessus du Mausolée de Sun Yat-sen – Guerre sino-japonaise – Nankin – Chine – 1938

[thahxa]

honestly one of the taiwan things is like. if not for taiwan, what's the whole chinese military for? they put an entire 1-2% (or so) of GDP into there! which is like. a totally normal amount of GDP to spend except of course china is so damn big that they get to have lots of cool things like aircraft carriers and stealth fighters and... wait, has anyone figured out what this military is for yet?

like the US spends quite a bit on the military but it has an excuse at least - maintaining military bases in a double-digit number of countries and being europe's army is hard work! occasionally they even decide to go off and fight terrorism or do a coup or whatever

but... the chinese military? their last war was in 1979 (with border conflicts until '91) but since then it's been nothing except occasional border conflicts with india (where, remember, they are not allowed to use guns). china has a state policy of nonintervention in foreign affairs, for any reason (including humanitarian) and wasn't a participant in the war on terror (nor really, had any of their own). in the civil war with burma, a country that it directly borders and whose civil war would have major consequences for china, chinese policy has been to... let some guns fall off the back of PLA trucks to the wa state. it's aiming to have a blue water navy and rival the united states for... what exactly again?

but of course taiwan fixes this! china isn't going to be crossing the yalu to invade south korea or crossing into the jungles and invading vietnam - it has no reason, and honestly no desire to, even though it could probably win if it needed, but at least with taiwan you can justify this force buildup to the beancounters

[prismstonearchives]

チャイナネオンネイビー - China Neon Navy

[mandyorwell]

Arden Hoodie

Navy Blue

Cropped Fit

MH209C-Z225S0720000

80% cotton, 20% nylon

Length 47 cm, Bust 68 cm (elastic)

China

Archived 28 August 2024

[usafphantom2]

Now we’re ready for China!

@Dr Chris Combes via X

[marinesfromaroundtheworld]

Emblem of the People's Republic of China Marine Corps.

[jamesfitzjamesdotcom]

Proofreading my letter transcriptions & oh happy day I've arrived at the 2nd worst Fitzjames letter (21 March 1842 to Barrow jr). What makes it annoying besides the cross writing, is that his letters to Barrow jr are bound into a book, thus obscuring words on the edge of the letters.

Doing pretty well so far...

Fitzjames signed off the letter saying he was in a great hurry. Crosswriting and being in a hurry... awful combination. 🥲

[lonestarbattleship]

USS HOUSTON (CA-30) in Shanghai during the Sino-Japanese Hostilities.

Date:February 1932.

Historical Photos of China: ep01-365, ep01-373, Ep01-408, Ep01-369

[mocksyoucondescendingly]

do other countries even have little shows about their police task forces ???

[carbone14]

Soldats de l'infanterie de marine soviétique à Port-Arthur – Offensive soviétique de Mandchourie – Guerre soviéto-japonaise – Chine – 1er octobre 1945

Photographe : Haldei

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