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  • 2018 PLAN (Chinese Navy) Update by Jeff Head

    03/16/2018 10:15:36 PM PDT · by Jeff Head · 36 replies
    Rising Sea Dragon in Asia ^ | March 14, 2018 | Jeff Head
    Introduction: For the last 14 years I have produced an annual review of the buildup and modernization of the Chinese Navy, the People's Liberation Army Navy, or "PLAN" as it is called. At the time these reviewws started, the PLAN was just embarking on producing more mordern vessels, and had acquired a carrier, the old Soviet Varyag, which was the second in their Kuznetsov class, but which was sitting unfinished in Ukraine due to the fall of the Soviet Union. The Chinese indicated at the time that they were buying it through a private company to make it into...
  • THE RAPID GROWTH & MODERNIZATION OF THE RED CHINESE NAVY

    06/30/2005 11:15:49 PM PDT · by Jeff Head · 317 replies · 3,813+ views
    JEFFHEAD.COM ^ | 1 July 2005 | Jeff Head
    THE RAPID GROWTH & MODERNIZATIONOF THE RED CHINESE NAVY (PLAN) - 2005A Pictorial Collage gathered by Jeff Head, July 2005 This article is not meant to be an indepth technical analysis. It is simply meant to graphically display the enormous amount of building activity that has been going on in the Chinese shipyards for the last fgew years and what they are producing. The pcitures of the shipyard activity speak for themselves. Pictorial sections on current training by the Red Chinese with their new vessels and pictures of the already commissioned vessels are also included. The shipbuilding pictures come...