China’s Sixth-Generation Fighter Refuels: What “Little Six” Reveals — and What It Doesn’t
Air Force Sector – On June 28, 2026, China Military Bugle, the PLA’s official press account, published a video marking...
China’s SLBM Test: A Rare Announcement, an Ambiguous Notice, and What It Signals
Strategic Nuclear Forces Sector – PLA Navy spokesperson Senior Captain Wang Xuemeng announced that at 12:01 p.m. on July 6,...
Serbia’s Chinese Air-Defense Network: Why Performance, Not Just Politics, Is Driving the Choice
Arms Trade & Geopolitics Sector – Serbian President Aleksandar Vučić recently confirmed, during a visit to an air base, that...
China’s Container-Sized Weapons: A Truck-Launched Drone, and What It Really Signals
Strategy & Technology Sector – On June 30, the School of Mechanical Engineering at the Beijing Institute of Technology (BIT)...
Ten Y-20Bs in an Elephant Walk: China’s Strategic Airlift Comes of Age — Almost
Air Force Sector – Chinese state military media recently put a spotlight on the PLA Air Force’s Y-20B heavy transport...
The DF-26’s New Fins: Enhanced Penetration and Remaining Challenges
Strategic Missile Sector – Ahead of the 60th anniversary of the PLA Rocket Force on July 1, Chinese state broadcaster...
Arleigh Burke in the Sand: What China’s Desert Warship Target Really Proves
Strategic Missile Sector – Commercial satellite imagery has revealed a new full-scale target in China’s remote Taklamakan Desert: a detailed...
Liaoning, Anhui, and the Missiles Behind Them: Reading China’s Carrier–Amphibious Exercise
Naval Sector – When China’s Liaoning carrier strike group returned to its home port of Qingdao on June 22, 2026,...
China’s Near-Sailless Mystery Submarine: What the Satellite Images Really Tell Us
Naval Sector – In late May and early June 2026, commercial satellite imagery captured a large, unusual submarine at the...
Tank Hunters in the Gobi: Reading the PLA’s HJ-10 Anti-Tank Drill
Ground Forces Sector – A report aired by the Liberation Army Daily in late June 2026 offered a brief look...
DF-17 Launch Footage Shown Publicly for the First Time: Inside China’s Hypersonic Missile Drill
Strategic Missile Sector – The People’s Liberation Army Rocket Force (PLARF) has, for the first time since the weapon’s 2019...
Dual-Track Modernization: PLA Central Command Synchronizes Tactical MUM-T with Administrative Closed-Loop Mechanisms
Central Strategic Sector – Comprehensive tactical telemetry analyzed in late June 2026 suggests a synchronized structural evolution across primary combat...