Russia + Yacht + PLA

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(1) Anisimov Sergey and Igor Siletsky, Russia's response to US missile defense plans. Voice of Russia, Oct 15, 2011
http://english.ruvr.ru/2011/10/15/58784848.html
("US Ambassador to Moscow Michael McFaul said during his address to Congress this week that Washington will not sign any agreements to the effect that the American missile defense project is not directed against Russia. Russia got the message")

Note: In fact, Mr McFaul, who has been Pres Obama's top Russia adviser, is a nominee for the ambassadorship, and th eoccasion was his nomination hearing in the Senate Foreign Relations Committee on Oct 12, 2011.

(2) Named SS Jiugang 酒钢号 (游船), a yacht built by City of Lanzhou and worth 17m renminbi or $2.6m sank immediately, upon launch on Sept 29, 2011. The yacht was salvaged, under repair and intended for another lauch soon.
YouTube.com, uploaded by Silveready1 on Oct 12, 2011
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YEaMdUFS750

(3) Bradley Perrett, China Expands Its Military Reach. Aviation Week, Oct 14, 2011.
http://www.aviationweek.com/aw/generic/story_generic.jsp?channel=awst&id=news/awst/2011/10/17/AW_10_17_2011_p52-380817.xml&headline=China%20Expands%20Its%20Military%20Reach

Quote:

"'China’s power-projection capacity is in its early stage of development,' says analyst Andrew Davies of the Australian Strategic Policy Institute in Canberra. 'It reduces rapidly with the distance from China’s coastline.'

"The trump card [of China] held against the island [Taiwan]—short-range ballistic missiles—can fly only about 300 or 600 km and the unrefueled combat radius of Chinese fighters is similar.

"China’s long-range air transport force is slight—just 10 Ilyushin Il-76s.

"One of the key changes will be the rise of the Chinese aerial tanker fleet, currently thought to amount to fewer than 20 H-6Us, adaptations of the bomber with poor transferable fuel capacity. Eight Il-78 tankers were ordered in 2005, along with 30 Il-76s, but the contract has run into trouble. Obtaining those aircraft would be particularly important because they could refuel J-11s, which H-6Us apparently cannot, write Gabriel Collins, Michael McGauvran and Timothy White in Chinese Aerospace Power, a book published in July. No more than a quarter of China’s combat aircraft can be refueled in the air, but the faction is rising.

Note:
(a) Regardintg quotation 2, the narrowest part of Taiwan Strait is 100 miles or 160km.
(b) DH-10  东海-10 (cruise missile; In service 2007)
(c) For H-6D, see Xian H-6
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xian_H-6
(轰-6; a license-built version of the Soviet Tupolev Tu-16 twin-engine jet bomber; section 2.1 Production versions: H-6D)
(d) For C-803K, see C-802
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C-802
(YJ-82 鹰击-82; anti-ship subsonic missile; export name is the C-802; In service 1989- present; Range 120 km)

This Wiki page mentions C-803 just once, in section 2 Variants:
"YJ-83 (C-803): Extended range variant to 150–200 km (255+km air-launched)."
(e) The "CJ" in engine CJ1000 obviously stands for Changjiang.



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