Aerial photographs taken from a plane flying over the Shanghai's Jiangnan Changxing shipbuilding base in which 5 Type 052C Guided Missile Destroyers / Type 052D Guided Missile Destroyers are being built.
China's Jiangnan Changxing shipbuilding base is considered as the 2nd biggest shipbuilding base in the world,
Peoples Liberation Army Navy (PLA Navy) has commissioned yet another Type 056 Corvette/Light Frigate, 584 Meishou. Commissioning of the 584 Meishou make it the 6th Type 056 corvette which has joined the 2013 and the 3rd in only one month of July.
Type 052D Luyang II Guided Missile Destroyer has achieved another milestone as China has installed new generation APAR (Active Phased Array Radar) on the first Type 052D Destroyer.
Chinese Y-20 Strategic Military Transport Aircraft Continues its flight testing in July 2013. Y-20 transport aircraft will meet the requirements of the People's Liberation Army Air Force (PLAAF) for large size transport aircraft.