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Chinas First Carrier-Based Early Warning Plane Continues Flight Tests, Report Says © AP Photo / Li Gang Subscribe Sputnik International https://sputniknews.com/asia/202102231082160317-chinas-first-carrier-based-early-warning-plane-continues-flight-tests-report-says/ Chinas first domestically developed fixed-wing early warning aircraft capable of taking off and landing on aircraft carriers recently conducted another successful flight test, state media...

SCI-TECH / AIR & SPACE By Global Times reporter tracking Chinas space programs and cutting-edge science and technology projects. Deng Xiaoci and Fan Anqi Published: Feb 18, 2021 08:13 PM Updated: Feb 18, 2021 11:48 PM Photo: twitter account of NASAs Perseverance Mars RoveFollowing the Hope orbiter from the United Arab Emirates (UAE), and Tianwen-1 Mars probe from China, US NASAs Perseverance rover is homing in on the Red Planet and is expected to perform a "most precise" landing on Earths...

PLA Xinjiang Military Command commissions Z-20 helicopter, vows to safeguard western border Cao Siqi Published: Feb 08, 2021 09:34 PM A Z-20 utility helicopter is on display prior to the 5th China Helicopter Exposition in Tianjin on October 9, 2019. Photo: Xu Luming/GT The Peoples Liberation Army (PLA) Xinjiang Military Command has commissioned Chinas newly developed, plateau-capable utility helicopter, the Z-20. Observers noticed on Monday that the choppers seem to have modified engines that...

China tests its missile interception equipment By ZHAO LEI | CHINA DAILY | Updated: 2021-02-06 07:18 Share China conducted a missile test in Shenyang, Liaoning province on Oct 21, 2020. [Photo/Xinhua]  China conducted a land-based, midcourse missile interception test on Thursday－the fifth land-based, anti-ballistic missile test the country has publicly announced. The Defense Ministry said in a brief statement late on Thursday that the test h...

CHINA / SOCIETY By Fan Anqi Published: Feb 04, 2021 06:20 PM The deep space antenna array system at a ground station in Kashi, Northwest China’s Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region Photo: Xian Satellite Control Center The China-developed 70-meter diameter reflector antenna, the largest in Asia, completed acceptance checks on Thursday and is ready to be put to use for the country’s first Mars mission, Tianwen-1, which is approaching the Red Planet and is expected to enter its gravity soo...

Long March rockets to support exciting phase of China’s space work in 2021 Deng Xiaoci Published: Jan 27, 2021 07:33 PM Updated: Jan 27, 2021 07:54 PM A Mars probe is launched on a Long March-5 rocket from the Wenchang Spacecraft Launch Site in south Chinas Hainan Province, July 23, 2020.Photo:Xinhua Developers of the Long March rocket family have recently disclosed more exciting details of Chinas space endeavors in 2021, which is expected to see more than 40 launch missions including those...

AVIC building twin-seat version of top fighter jet By ZHAO LEI | CHINA DAILY | Updated: 2021-01-12 08:54 Share [Photo provided to chinadaily.com.cn] Aviation Industry Corp of China, the nations leading aircraft maker, is poised to develop a twin-seat version of its J-20 stealth fighter jet－Chinas most advanced combat plane, according to the State-owned conglomerate. In a video clip recently published on AVICs WeChat social media account, the ...

The reported crash of a Boeing passenger jet after departure from Jakarta would not have an impact on its market prospects in China; instead, its sluggish recovery in the lucrative market is much more alarming, Chinese aviation analysts said.

H-6K variant seen at China-Russia strategic patrol By Liu Xuanzun Source: Global Times Published: 2020/12/23 19:38:31 A H-6 strategic bomber attached to a bomber regiment of the naval aviation force under the PLA Southern Theater Command soars into the air during a recent realistic flight training exercise. (eng.chinamil.com.cn/Photo by Gao Hongwei)  A new variant of Chinas H-6K bomber, which experts said on Wednesday is more powerful than the original version, was spotted in the second joi...

Change-5 lands in North China, concludes epic lunar round trip Source: Global Times Published: 2020/12/17 2:17:21 The photo taken on early Thursday morning shows Beijing Aerospace Control Center Photo: Our Space Carrying around 2 kilograms of lunar samples, Chinas Change-5 safely landed at its designated landing area in Siziwang Banner, North Chinas Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region around 2 am Thursday, bringing the crafts epic round trip between Earth and its celestial neighbor located som...