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35 mm self-propelled anti-aircraft system China: In service. 2 X 35 mm and optionally 4 X fire-and-forget FN-6 missiles. CS/SA-1 35 mm self-propelled anti-aircraft system China: In service. Low attitude system, capable of engaging cruise missile and mortar round. Export-orientated weapon with unknown military designation within PLA. [64] [65 ...
Pistols. QSZ-11 - 5.8×21mm compact pistol [1] QSZ-92 - 9 mm and 5.8 mm pistol (in service-main) QSZ-193 - 9 mm compact pistol. QX-04 - modular designed pistol. QSW-06 - 5.8 mm silenced pistol, replacing the Type 67 silenced pistol (in service) Type 84 - 7.62 mm small pistol for security and police forces (in service)
China's first completely indigenous anti-ship missile program was the YJ8 series. This missile externally appears similar to the French Exocet and American Harpoon, but is essentially a Chinese designed weapon system. The basic YJ8 appeared in the early 1980s, with a short range of 22 miles (40 or so km).
Republic of China. Developed with elements drawn from both the FN Minimi and T74 machine gun. Used by the military police, marine corps and air force. [citation needed] Type 74 machine gun [zh] 7.62×51mm. General-purpose machine gun. Belgium. United States. Republic of China.
The People's Republic of China has developed and possesses weapons of mass destruction, including chemical and nuclear weapons. The first of China's nuclear weapons tests took place in 1964, and its first hydrogen bomb test occurred in 1966 at Lop Nur. [5] Tests continued until 1996, when the country signed the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban ...
Two Chinese technical papers from December 2012 and April 2013 show that China has concluded that hypersonic weapons pose "a new aerospace threat" and that they are developing satellite directed precision guidance systems. China is the third country to enter the "hypersonic arms race" after Russia and the United States.
In 1996, China imported the technologies of BMP-3M turret and weapon systems with licenses from Russia. [8] After testing, the Chinese military decided to fit the imported weapon systems with indigenously developed turrets, sensors, and chassis.
Launch. platform. Tripod, vehicle, aircraft. The HJ-8 or Hongjian-8 (Chinese: 红箭-8; pinyin: Hóng Jiàn-8; lit. 'Red Arrow-8') is a second generation tube-launched, optically tracked, wire-guided anti-tank missile system which was originally deployed by the People's Liberation Army since the late 1980s.