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Topic: Peoples Liberation Army Air Force

	Indian Army News [January 2002]
		Earlier, the Port Blair command was a naval command with elements from air force and army attached to it.
		Chief of Army Staff, General S. Padmanabhan, assured the nation that although there was some tension in the air but people should not be worried and should not get deflected from their normal tasks.
		The Army is probing the fire which while gutting the ammunition trucks set off splinters, missiles and other explosives which hit a number of residential areas and a hospital killing two people and injuring 11 while shattering window panes and damaging two houses.
	www.bharat-rakshak.com /LAND-FORCES/Army/News/2002/02-Jan.html (7335 words)

	Peoples Liberation Army Air Force
		The PLA Air Force underwent reorganization and streamlining as part of the general reduction in military forces begun in 1985.
		In peacetime the Air Force Directorate, under the supervision of the PLA General Staff Department, controls the Air Force through Air Army headquarters located with, or in communication with, each of the seven military region headquarters.
		The army Aviation Corps was established in 1988 by the transfer of utility helicopters from the Air Force to support ground troops as transport a force.
	www.globalsecurity.org /military/world/china/plaaf-intro.htm (2180 words)

	Peoples Liberation Army Air Force
		The primary mission of the PLA Air Force is the defense of the mainland, and most aircraft are assigned to this role.
		Air defense operations are primarily focused on surface to air missiles, with additional emphasis on counterattacks against enemy bases.
		The PLAAF’s primary objectives would be to prevent the enemy from interfering in the PLA ground forces, with second objectives to conduct Close Air Support (CAS) and Interdiction operations.
	www.fas.org /nuke/guide/china/agency/plaaf-intro.htm (1200 words)

	PARAMETERS, US Army War College Quarterly - Winter 1999-2000
		It took the air forces of 13 contributing NATO countries to batter Yugoslavia to the point that Milosevic agreed to withdraw his forces from Kosovo and permit the introduction of a UN peacekeeping force, including Russian troops, into the strife-torn province.
		To end the war without Milosevic's concurrence, his political supporters, the army, and the people would have to come to a consensus that it was more in their interests to accede to NATO demands than it was to continue to resist.
		One Air Force official quipped, "This is not Instant Thunder [the original code name for the air component of Desert Storm]; it's more like Constant Drizzle."[14] Of the 9,300 sorties flown by the end of the third week in April, about a month into the operation, only 2,750 were strike sorties.
	carlisle-www.army.mil /usawc/Parameters/99winter/tilford.htm (6522 words)

	People's Liberation Army - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The People's Liberation Army's insignia consists of a round device with a red star bearing the Chinese characters for "Eight One" referring to August 1 (Chinese:八一, Pinyin: bā yī), the date of the 1927 Nanchang Uprising, surrounded by wheat ears and cog wheels.
		The People's Liberation Army was founded on August 1, 1927 during the Nanchang Uprising when troops of the Kuomintang (KMT) rebelled under the leadership of Zhu De and Zhou Enlai shortly after the end of the first Kuomintang-Communist alliance.
		The People's Republic of China is not a member of the Australia Group, an informal and voluntary arrangement made in 1985 to monitor developments in the proliferation of dual-use chemicals and to coordinate export controls on key dual-use chemicals and equipment with weapons applications.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Peoples_Liberation_Army (5806 words)

	Flight Saftey Vs Combat Readiness
		The first one according to the calculation, is from the Pakistan Air Force (PAF) and the second one from the Chinese Peoples Liberation Army (Air Force).
		Air Commodore (Retd) Jasjit Singh, Director, Institute of Defence Studies and Analyses writes that 'This window of vulnerability needs to be urgently addressed'.
		Air Chief Marshal S K Kaul a formal Chief of the IAF (1993-1995) has been very critical of the 'make shift arrangements' for the IAF procurement programme.
	www.defencejournal.com /feb-mar99/flight-safety.htm (1351 words)

	WorldNetDaily: Comrade Gen. Kui visits U.S.
		In 1993, Kui was taken on a personal tour of Andrews Air Force Base, the FAA air traffic center in Leesburg, Va., and the Boeing plant in Seattle, Wash. He even had dinner with Boeing CEO Frank Shrontz.
		Shi Yuanzhi" of the Chinese air force and "Mr.
		"The separation of the Peoples Armed Police (the Party's internal security army) from the PLA and the regularization of the PLA into a conventional fighting force is another example of the movement away from popularly based communism towards autocratic fascism," states the 1999 Stratfor report.
	www.worldnetdaily.com /news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=20551 (1410 words)

	PARAMETERS, US Army War College Quarterly - Winter 1999-2000
		The Army dragged its feet in response to SACEUR's request for an Apache deployment; the helicopters were deployed at a glacial pace and with a ponderous 5,000-man contingent of support troops, including ground defense forces and MLRS batteries designed to suppress possible Serbian artillery attacks on the Apaches.
		The Army's marginal relevance to the war against Serbia was not ascribable solely to the White House's political unwillingness--strongly supported by the Army--to commit ground forces to combat.
		The Iraqi army was gutted by US air power; the Iranian army's tank park belongs in the Smithsonian; the Russian army remains a joke after Chechnya; the North Korean army is technologically primitive and lacks staying power; and nobody in the Pentagon is planning to fight the Chinese on the ground.
	www.carlisle.army.mil /usawc/Parameters/99winter/record.htm (3045 words)

	Special Operations.Com - China's Special Operations Forces
		Formed in China's Guangzhou military region and known by the nickname "Sword of Southern China", the force supposedly receives army, air force and naval training, including flight training, and is equipped with "hundreds of high-tech devices", including global-positioning satellite systems.
		All of the force's officers have completed military staff colleges, and 60 percent are said to have university degrees.
		While no size for the force has been revealed, there have been Chinese media claims that "over 4000 soldiers of the fore are all-weather and versatile fighters and parachutists who can fly airplanes and drive auto vehicles and motor boats".
	www.specialoperations.com /Foreign/China (498 words)

	Military flags of the Peoples Republic of China
		The flag of the armed forces of the People's Republic of China (the People's Liberation Army [PLA]) is red with a golden star in the upper hoist, but the star is smaller than on the national flag.
		The Ground Force Flag is similar to the PLA Flag, with the lower 40% being grass green.
		There is also a flag for the Chinese air force: similar to that of the People's Liberation Army, but the lower half being air force blue.
	flagspot.net /flags/cn^milit.html (497 words)

	Red Wings Over the Yalu: China, the Soviet Union and the Air War in Korea Armor - Find Articles
		The Chinese or Peoples Liberation Army Air Force (PLAAF), an air force created by the Chinese communists out of the remnants of the old Kuomintang air force (trained by the 14th Air Force under Major General Claire Chennault), fought the bulk of the communist air campaign over the Korea Peninsula.
		Nevertheless, the air battles of Mig Alley provided communist aviators an opportunity to both develop tactics to counter a technologically superior UN air force and prove they were equal in both skill and courage to any U.S. Air Force, Commonwealth, or South Korean pilot.
		In particular, he probes the impact of the Korean War on China's conception of the role of air power, arguing that it was not until the success of the U.S. Air Force during the Gulf War in the 1990s that Chinese leaders engaged in a broad reassessment of the strategy adopted during the Korean War.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m0PAB/is_3_114/ai_n14695519 (930 words)

	Wikinfo \| Air force
		An Air Force is a Military organisation that primarily operates in air-based war.
		between the land-based warfare of an Army, the sea-based warfare of a Navy,
		Peoples Liberation Army Air Force (Peoples Republic of China)
	www.wikinfo.org /wiki.php?title=Air_force (145 words)

	CHINESE AIR POWER - PEOPLE'S LIBERATION ARMY AIR FORCE
		The new PLAAF is updating its inventory of MiG-21 and MiG-19 copies with planned purchases of the advanced Russian made Sukhoi SU-27 FLANKER series and the newly developed J-10 strike fighter.
		The IL-76 four-engine jet is the current front-line PLAAF military transport and the Chinese civil version is frequently armed with a cannon located in a rear turret.
		PLAAF IL-76 transports dropped paratroopers, tanks and artillery directly on to the battlefield during the fall 2000 Chinese military exercises.
	www.softwar.net /plaaf.html (2240 words)

	Air Force Magazine
		On Oct. 11, 1961, President Kennedy directed, in NSAM 104, that the Defense Secretary “introduce the Air Force ‘Jungle Jim’ Squadron into Vietnam for the initial purpose of training Vietnamese forces.” The 4400th was to proceed as a training mission and not for combat at the present time.
		In dispatching the air commandos to South Vietnam, the United States was violating the Geneva Accords of 1954 that established the two Vietnams.
		It is the heritage of the air commandos.
	www.afa.org /magazine/Dec2005/1205farmgate.asp (3101 words)

	Peoples Liberation Army Air Force Uniforms
		With the advent of 2004 a new generation of bedding, clothing and equipment for aircrew including four series and twenty models were developed and passed the test and appraisal of General Logistics Department (GID).
		As the army is being furnished with new models of aircraft, old bedding, clothing and equipment are shown to be dull, oversimplified in function, antiquated and irrational in model design.
		Military dress uniform for the Air Force's male officers
	www.globalsecurity.org /military/world/china/plaaf-uniforms.htm (683 words)

	China's Air Force Equipping for Offensive Role
		Addressing the Millennium Air Power Conference in Singapore yesterday, Gen. Liu said the AF/PLA is shifting from national air defense to defense plus offense, to better implement the goals of active defense.
		Its brief was to cover a range of topics relevant to air power issues, and the impact of technological developments in aviation and aerospace in the 21st century.
		Raymund Ng, Republic of Singapore air force chief; Air Chief Marshal Hanafie Asnan, chief of staff, Indonesian air force; Gen. Jean Rannou, chief of staff, French air force; Air Marshal Errol McCormack, CAS, RAAF; Gen. Patricio Rios Ponce, C-in-C, Chilean air force; Maj. Gen.
	www.aviationnow.com /shownews/00sing2/topsto14.htm (352 words)

	Chinese A-50 in Israel (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		The aircraft, wearing the Russian civil registration RA-78740, differs from the standard variant in having twin angled ventral fins at the extreme rear of the fuselage, whereas the Russian Air Force aircraft have horizontally-mounted aerodynamic surfaces extending from the fuselage sides behind the main undercarriage housing.
		Another noteworthy feature is the absence of the standard A-50's large air intake at the base of the fin, associated with equipment cooling of the type's Shmel' AWACS radar.
		However, the most significant feature of the aircraft, apart from the Phalcon radar to be installed by IAI Elta, is the provision of an in-flight refuelling probe.
	www.aeronautics.ru /nws001/afm109.htm (385 words)

	DEFENDING PAKISTAN - 1
		The Indian Air Force (IAF) is the 4th largest in the world and growing rapidly.
		The short time of missiles to target implies that fixed assets such as air bases, nuclear installations and weapon factories whose defence has been modeled on the assumption of a conventional air attack, will have to be protected with the missile threat in mind.
		Given the fact that there are a total of 10 PAF forward air bases and 9 additional combat capable air bases versus 100 such bases in India, it follows that to keep the enemy on the defensive, the Pakistan armed forces require similar or better strike capability against such targets.
	www.defencejournal.com /may98/defendingpakistan1.htm (2467 words)

	Special Focus: Liberation (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		On June 22, 1944, Soviet forces opened a major offensive that crushed the German forces defending the center of the eastern front in western Belorussia, sweeping the line of the front into central Poland by early August.
		Though the liberation of Nazi camps was not a primary objective of the Allied military campaign, U.S, British, Canadian, and Soviet troops freed prisoners from their SS guards, provided them with food and badly needed medical support, and collected evidence for war crimes trials
		However, the liberation of Nazi camps was not a primary objective of the Allied military campaign.
	www.ushmm.org /museum/exhibit/focus/liberation (1115 words)

	PLAAF - Chinese Aviation in Technology
		The birth of the PLAAF (Peoples' Liberation Army Air Force) brought the rest of the world down in size and military capability owing to the fact that the pure strengh of the PLAAF cannot ever be underestimated or over powered by any one-man country such as its' neighborouring partners, Japan, Korea or Taiwan.
		The PLA (Peoples' Liberation Army) and the PLAAF had studied greatly in this and between the 60's, they began to build missiles of their own including ICMB's (Inter-continental Ballistic Missiles) and their now recent developed project, the Chinese Dong Feng Missiles.
		One of the major achievements made by China, besides the great leap foward, was the formation of the PLA, PLAAF and the newly acquired navy consisting now over 500,000 PLA Marines.
	www.geocities.com /lostbacon2/PLAAF.html (346 words)

	IMPACT OF FOREIGN WEAPONS & TECHNOLOGY ON MODERIZATION OF CHINA'S PEOPLES LIBERATION ARMY (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		While the United States has made clear its desire for peaceful relations with the Chinese people, the government of the PRC is actively preparing for a possible war with democratic Taiwan, as it continues to proliferate dangerous nuclear weapon and missile technologies to rogue regimes.
		With this Sukhoi fleet as the tip of the spear, in combination with PLA missile forces and other air forces, the PLAAF will soon be able to contest air superiority over the Taiwan Strait and maybe over Taiwan itself, perhaps for the first time since the founding of the PRC.
		This task was fraught with difficulty and it does not appear that the PLAAF began to exercise their fighters to their full potential until the later 1990s.
	www.freerepublic.com /focus/f-news/1144402/posts (13863 words)

	MILAVIA - Aircraft - Chengdu J-10
		The J-10 (Jian-10 meaning Fighter-10) built by Chengdu Aircraft Industry Corporation (CAC) is the next generation multi-role fighter for China's Peoples Liberation Army Air Force (PLAAF).
		The J-10 is a capable fighter-bomber, which will be operated alongside China's interceptor fleet of J-11 licensed built Su-27 and the imported Su-30MK Flankers.
		In November 2004 Air Forces Monthly published a recent photograph of the what is believed to be the first two-seat J-10 (believed to be designated J-10S) that has begun test-flying.
	www.milavia.net /aircraft/j-10/j-10.htm (595 words)

	Defenceindia : News : India trip for China army chief
		The chief of the Chinese Peoples’ Liberation Army, General Liang Guanglie, is expected to visit India for four days from May 23 to take forward the military confidence-building measures that were shaped in a protocol signed last month.
		General Liang is here on the invitation of the Indian armed forces and he will be hosted by the army chief, General J.J. Singh.
		He will meet the chiefs of the army, the navy and the air force, and will be given a tour of defence headquarters in Delhi, the para training school and the IAF transport base in Agra, the Southern Command in Pune and the Western Naval Command and its offices in Maharashtra and Goa.
	www.defenceindia.com /16-may-2k5/news21.html (246 words)

	Daily Excelsior... Editorial
		The Chinese, presently engaged in feverishly modernising their antiquated Peoples Liberation Army Air Force (PLAAF), had attached considerable importance to the deal and were visibly annoyed on its abrupt cancellation.
		The forced cancellation of the planned sale have put the Israelis in a quandary since they want the Americans to find out new customers for these two expensive AEW planes.
		If Phalcon with more than eight hours endurance in the air without refuelling is inducted into the IAFandrsquo;s air defence system, it will be able to detect, identify and track airborne enemy forces far from the Indian borders in order to direct fighter-interceptor aircraft on to these enemy targets.
	www.dailyexcelsior.com /00aug06/edit.htm (6322 words)

	CNN.com - PLA revamps with eye on Taiwan - Jul 20, 2004
		Senior officers from China's vastly expanded Second Artillery Corp (or missiles forces division), have recently told the CMC leadership that both the range and precision of their missiles had improved to the extent they could be "effectively used against U.S. aircraft carriers and other naval vessels."
		While PLA headquarters units, including the CMC itself, have been dominated by veterans from the ground forces, budget allocations, particularly for the navy and air force, have increased dramatically in the past few years.
		And at the enlarged CMC meeting due to be called alongside the Fourth Plenary Session of the Communist Party Central Committee this (northern hemisphere) autumn, the commanders of the navy, air force and missiles forces -- respectively Admiral Shi Yunsheng, General Qiao Qingchen and General Yang Guoliang -- are tipped for induction to the CMC.
	edition.cnn.com /2004/WORLD/asiapcf/07/20/willy.pla (927 words)

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