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| steelDUST | Aug 25 2012, 07:49 AM Post #71 |
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BEIJING: Chinese military flaunts state-of-the-art helicopters KENJI MINEMURA/ Chinese General Bureau Correspondent A buzz of rotors from the mountainside heralded the appearance of a fleet of four Z-9WZ helicopters, state-of-the-art Chinese military aircraft. Without disrupting its formation, the fleet ascended abruptly at a 90-degree angle, turned sharply, descended to within a hairbreadth of the ground and flaunted their hovering capability. The date was July 24, and the venue was a base outside Beijing for China's Army Aviation 4th Helicopter Regiment. I was one of the reporters invited from about 70 foreign and Hong Kong media organizations to the occasion ahead of the Aug. 1 Army Day, which celebrates the founding of the People's Liberation Army in 1927. A senior regiment official said the regiment has more than 40 helicopters, whose missions include defense of the capital, reconnaissance and transport of troops. They have engaged in relief activities following the 2008 Great Sichuan Earthquake and the recovery of a manned rocket. I could not believe it when I heard that the Chinese military, renowned for its secrecy, was to offer a showing of one of its elite units to the foreign media. The military has held presentations of its troops to the media around the same time every year since 2008, but they were mostly centered around counterterrorism and military parades, where there was never anything novel. This time around, however, the drills were full of surprises. Ten or so state-of-the-art helicopters were on display at the base. Their cockpits and engines were open so that anybody could peer into them. My heart pounded as I photographed them, but nobody stopped me. Missiles and rockets for operational use were also on display. Pilots were available for media interviews. "This is the best service we have ever provided," said a senior Chinese military official who attended the open base event. "You must have realized that our military has dramatically enhanced its transparency." It certainly is progress and deserves praise that the military presented its state-of-the-art core weapons to foreign media without concealing anything. But the latest drills alone are not enough to convince me that the Chinese military has improved its transparency. That is because, on closer inspection, I sense the presence of other, hidden intentions. To begin with, the Chinese military has presented the helicopters because they constitute the core weapons to be used in the event of advances into marine areas and occupation of remote islands. The Chinese military has drawn up internal plans on grabbing remote islands in the South China Sea, where Beijing is at loggerheads with the Philippines and Vietnam over sovereignty issues. Under those plans, armed helicopters are supposed to attack the islands from the air before landing crafts and amphibious tanks begin their assaults, according to a source at a military think tank. The military appears to be applying pressure on the Philippines and Vietnam by showing off the prowess of its helicopter-operating technologies and skills to audiences both at home and abroad at the very time that tensions are rising between China and its southern neighbors. It also appears certain that the Senkaku Islands in Okinawa, administered by Japan and claimed by China, are also on the minds of the Chinese military. State-of-the-art armed helicopters of the same type as the Z-9WZ, which appeared in the latest show, are in use as carrier-based helicopters and have approached Japan's Maritime Self-Defense Force destroyers in alarming proximity in the East China Sea. That is a strong message, in my opinion, that Beijing wants to hold Tokyo in check. It also came to mind that the timing of the media viewing coincided with Washington's deployment of the MV-22 Osprey transport aircraft to Japan. On the day of the media show, the Global Times, affiliated with the People's Daily, the mouthpiece of the Communist Party of China, ran a front-page article under a headline suggesting that the deployment of the Ospreys is intended to shore up Japan's defense of the Diaoyu Islands. Diaoyu is the Chinese name for the Senkaku Islands. That also indicates Beijing's strong wariness. Over the past several years, the Chinese military has been eager to impress the international community with enhanced transparency--which the lack of has been a target of criticism--by issuing white papers on defense and holding regular news conferences. I think the military has duly brushed up its presentation skills to a much more sophisticated level than ever before. As a news reporter from a neighboring country facing a booming major power, I keep in mind a need to carefully analyze its messages to uncover the nation's true intentions. *** http://ajw.asahi.com/article/views/column/AJ201208230015 Edited by steelDUST, Aug 25 2012, 07:51 AM.
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| astro_boy2005 | Aug 25 2012, 09:40 AM Post #72 |
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yan ang dapat talagang gawin natin, sana nga mag improve na ang weather. Question is ano ang gagawin nila this time pag dating nila sa disputed panatag area? |
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| Parastriker | Aug 25 2012, 07:29 PM Post #73 |
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Patrol, of course. What are other things do you have in mind? Live-fire exercises? |
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Success through information, victory through disinformation. "Good leaders make efficient followers. Great leaders make good followers. But true leaders make leaders out of mere followers." "Measuring the intelligence of a common internet user is as easy as looking at his/her grammar." | |
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| zwahzhal | Aug 26 2012, 02:07 AM Post #74 |
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Ako may sagot...pwedeng pwede live fire exercise. Yung mga nakatayong Chi ang target ng live fire....as in apoy... NANG MARAMDAMAN NILA YUNG SAKIT!.....'di ba? Hay...just enjoying what can be enjoyed. Soon to come na.... ooops.
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| UH 1 Air Crew | Aug 26 2012, 02:23 AM Post #75 |
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Good point. DFA should send a thank you not to the chicoms for setting up a target range for the Philippine Navy. |
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| UH 1 Air Crew | Aug 26 2012, 02:29 AM Post #76 |
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On a more serious note. Philippine Civilians need to prepare for the coming war. Many in the Philippines(at least the ones that can afford it - those that I have seen) are better armed than the Philippine Military. I used to think that there was too much money at risk to start a war. Now, there's too much money at stake To NOT have war. Chicoms want what the Philippines has and are more than willing to take it by force. |
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| UH 1 Air Crew | Aug 26 2012, 02:50 AM Post #77 |
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I read an article recently about a poll conducted in china. The poll asked chinese how many would like to slap a Filipino in the face, and the result was 80% of chinese would like to. Someone should conduct a poll in the Philippines and ask how many would like to punch a chinese in their nuts. What do you think the result of that poll would be? |
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| Samir_Duran | Aug 26 2012, 07:23 AM Post #78 |
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THE GHOST
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Let's do that on the poll page here!
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| astro_boy2005 | Aug 26 2012, 01:09 PM Post #79 |
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Well I was thinking that they will forcibly remove the rope off that area. |
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| Parastriker | Aug 26 2012, 01:37 PM Post #80 |
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The ropes already gave away. |
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Success through information, victory through disinformation. "Good leaders make efficient followers. Great leaders make good followers. But true leaders make leaders out of mere followers." "Measuring the intelligence of a common internet user is as easy as looking at his/her grammar." | |
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