The peoples liberation army pla general logistics department gld. The peoples liberation army air force plaaf is an aerial service branch of the peoples liberation army, the armed forces of the peoples republic of china. The pla is planning to reduce the number of military regions from seven to five military areas to have joint command with ground, naval, air, and peoples liberation army rocket force forces. This change in how the pla trains for combat and would fight during a conflict has required fundamental changes to pla doctrine. New commanders of the chinese peoples liberation army ground force and air force have taken up their posts. Pla air force plaaf, but also pla naval aviation, army aviation, rockets and missiles, space and satellites, and the civilian infrastructure, including cyber, that supports it. Lin joined the eighth route army to fight in the second sinojapanese war before he turned 11. It will really make a great unity to be your best friend in your lonely. As of 2014, the plaaf has a strength of around 398,000 personnel and is the largest air force. Peoples liberation army air force wikipedia republished. This report focuses on the pla air force s initial steps toward becoming an expeditionary air force, a development that will have important implications for the reach of chinas military and its ability to protect chinas emerging overseas interests.
China reached its critical milestone, as said one russian newspaper, for pekin is important as appolos program. Beijings willingness to rely on the pla as a tool of foreign policy. March 2014 deployment of pla air force, navy, and chinese coast guard. As chinas economic, diplomatic, and security interests continue to expand, the peoples liberation army pla and, in particular, its aerospace forces including its air force, naval aviation, and space capabilities will require more robust power projection and expeditionary capabilities on par with chinas expanding global footprint. For retired aircraft, see list of historic aircraft of the peoples liberation army air force. This file is licensed under the creative commons attributionshare alike 4. As chinas economic, diplomatic, and security interests continue to expand, the peoples liberation army pla and in particular its aerospace forces to include air force, naval aviation, and space capabilities will require more robust powerprojection and expeditionary capabilities on par with chinas increasingly global footprint. Chinas military ambitions in space and americas response. Air force may or may not use these sites as additional distribution channels for department of defense information, it does not exercise editorial control over all of the information that you may find at these locations. Dec 11, 2010 china today is focusing on developing key technological areas while it buys, borrows or steals the technology it needs to integrate into its own defense industrial base. List of active peoples liberation army aircraft wikipedia. Rand project air force rand project air force paf, a division of the rand corporation, is the u. Chinas air force is in the midst of a transformation.
Hard copy and computer files are the property of civil air patrol and must be released and transferred upon termination of duty position. The chinese peoples liberation army at 75 laurie burkitt, andrew scobell and larry m. Lin hu air force general simple english wikipedia, the. The peoples liberation army air force will host a large openhouse activity starting thursday in changchun, capital of northeast chinas jilin province, to mark the 70th anniversary of its founding. Naval aviation provides the plan with its own air capability independent of the pla air force plaaf. Defense minister general cao gangchuan retired as vice chairman of the cmc and as a member of.
Media in category chinese peoples liberation army air force the following 12 files are in this category, out of 12 total. To provide data required to process flight plans with appropriate air traffic service authorities. In war, control of the air force probably reverts to the regional commanders. The chinese air force national defense university press. Photoic the peoples liberation army air force will celebrate its 70th anniversary on monday. Rumors of these tectonic changes had been brewing for months, following decades of periodically aborted discussions about the need to. They implicitly claim that my unit and our cc are doing more than required by maintaining pifs. If the file has been modified from its original state, some details such as the timestamp may not fully reflect those of the original file.
Pla air force to regularize training over first island chain. After the conflict was over, thousands of surplus aircraft were sold on the civilian market. The chinese air force ndu press national defense university. Peoples liberation army air force aviation training at the. However, formatting rules can vary widely between applications and fields of interest or study. Peoples liberation army air force operations over water. The pla air force plaaf, with over 1,700 combat aircraft, is asias largest air force. The plaaf was officially established on 11 november 1949.
This report examines the roles, missions and developments in training within the peoples republic of chinas prc peoples liberation army navys plan naval aviation branch. The pla navys current logistics and strategic delivery capabilities are limited. It has shifted steadily from a force focused on homeland air defense to one capa ble of power. Such links are provided consistent with the stated purpose of this website.
Plaaf peoples liberation army air force plan peoples liberation army navy pok pakistan occupied kashmir ppp purchasing power parity prc peoples republic of china. The chief of staff of the air force chartered the air superiority 2030 as 2030 enterprise capability collaboration team ecct to develop capability options to enable joint force air superiority in the highly contested environment of 2030 and beyond. Photoic the peoples liberation army air force will host a fiveday openhouse activity starting on thursday in changchun, jilin province, to mark the 70th anniversary of its founding. As of 2014, the plaaf has a strength of around 398,000 personnel and is the largest air force in asia. Overview of peoples liberation army air force elite pilots rand. However, chinas leaders employ tactics short of armed conflict to pursue. The peoples liberation army air force plaaf has embarked on a major institutional reform to train and equip a modern, professional aviator corps. The chinese peoples liberation army pla is in the midst of a sweeping reform programme to signi. While many bases are legacy sites from the cold war, a significant proportion of these have been. There is no question which country has made the greatest strides in developing its airpower capability. Following in the footsteps of the peoples liberation army air force plaaf, the plan has recently begun benefitting from domestic combat aircraft production. The pla air force will have a moderate growth of manpower, but will maintain approximately 400,000 personnel. Chinas y20 transport aircraft may enter service in 2016 the appearance on chinese military webpages of the fifth prototype of the xian aircraft corporation xac y20 heavy strategic transport aircraft has prompted suggests that it could enter peoples liberation army air force plaaf service as early as this year. Its research focuses on the peoples liberation army air force.
Allen argues that the pla air force plaaf is undergoing a crucial transition from an obsolete giant with short operational legs and limited allweather capability to an offensiveoriented force with. Exploring the contours of chinas military is the ninth volume in this series published by the strategic studies institute and represents the collective scholarly efforts of those who. The peoples liberation army pla is undergoing significant modernization efforts that began in the mid1980s. That same year, the pla expanded to include the pla navy and the pla air force. The pla remained technologically inferior to western militaries during its early decades, but chinas leaders readily employed pla forces against the united states in korea and vietnam. Annotations must be made on the file plan accordingly. The pla air force was founded on 11 november 1949, and it was soon engaged in the war to resist u. This is planned to change their concept of operations from primarily groundoriented to mobile and coordinated movement of all services. No where is that more evident than in the area of the pla air force, and pla naval air force. Moving toward a smaller, more rapidly deployable, modern combined arms force. Pla air force order of battle plaaf, pla aviation corps.
Air force ranks youll learn everything you need to know about the air force during basic military training, but it never hurts to get a head start on memorizing some of the basics. A file plan is a comprehensive outline that includes the records series, file organization, active file locations, file transfer instructions, file retention and disposition instructions, and other specific instructions that provide guidance for effective management of records, including vital records. On thursday, an h6 bomber, j11 fighter and kj500 reconnaissance plane from the pla air force flew over southwestern taiwan and on to the. After all, the more training you can do now, the less youll have to do later. In carrying out this strategy, the pla will employ each of its four subordinate service branches. This report focuses on pla air force operations over water, a topic. The air power australia peoples liberation army air power pla af pla n capability growth and strategy index page provides easy access to an extensive collection of technical reports, articles and papers describing contemporary and legacy pla military equipment and systems, primarily of russian and chinese origin. The following list of active peoples liberation army aircraft is a list of military aircraft currently in service with three branches of the peoples liberation army. The longawaited pla reorganization has finally arrived james mulvenon on 31 december 2015, ccp supremo xi jinping announced the most sweeping reorganization of the peoples liberation army since the 1950s.
In contrast, the pla air force participated in only one bilateral exercise in 2012 an airborne training exercise with belarus in november. The largest air force organizational unit is the division, which consisted of 17,000 personnel in three regiments. Photo xinhua the peoples liberation army air force will host a fiveday openhouse activity starting on thursday in changchun, jilin province, to mark the 70th anniversary of its founding. Air superiority counterair operations are designed to gain control of the air and wrest such control away from an adversary. Pdf the future force structure of the chinese air force. Composition reform, a very good indicator that the second phase of chinese military reform is about to unfold in 2017. The pla navy includes an air component that is called the pla naval air force, or planaf. It is also important to consider that the pla s projection into space is an integral part of chinas. On thursday, an h6 bomber, j11 fighter and kj500 reconnaissance plane from the pla air force flew over southwestern taiwan and on to the western pacific where they followed a us rc5u electronic reconnaissance aircraft. File photo shows the peoples liberation army pla air force conducting a highsea training mission. A decade ago, it was an antiquated service equipped almost exclusively with weapons based on 1950sera soviet designs and operated by personnel with questionable training according to outdated employment concepts. The pla air force conducted plaaf unprecedented bilateral training during 2011, including its first bilateral air exercise with pakistan and training with air forces in belarus and venezuela. A file is retained by the agency processing the flight plan. Defense intelligence agency, november 1984 15 mb pdf file.
Peoples liberation army chinese intelligence agencies. May 07, 2016 this file contains additional information such as exif metadata which may have been added by the digital camera, scanner, or software program used to create or digitize it. New commanders of the pla take up their positions china. Chinas peoples liberation army pla as cosponsors of the 19th pla carlisle conference from october 68, 2006.
Growing concerns over the peoples liberation army air force plaaf modernization efforts in the fields of fourth generation fighters, near aim120 air to. This force will have separate wings for nuclear and conventional missiles. The pla and contingency planning in china phillip c. An h6 bomber of chinese pla air force flies near a taiwan f16 in this february 10, 2020 handout photo provided by taiwan ministry of national defense. It differs significantly from iiss data in that it is more complete.
Peoples liberation army air force and naval air arm air base. March 2014 deployment of pla air force, navy, and chinese coast guard assets to search for the missing malaysian airlines flight mh370. The chinese air forces first steps toward becoming an. Over the last two decades, chinas air force, the peoples liberation army air force plaaf, has transformed itself from a large, poorlytrained force oper. Handbook of the chinese peoples liberation army, u. In chapter 6, pla air force operations and modernization, kenneth w. The following list of active peoples liberation army aircraft is a list of military aircraft currently in service with all four branches of the peoples liberation army. The focus of the meeting, and of a major speech by xi jinping, was the need to rationalize the size, structure, and organization of the peoples. The military power of china defense intelligence agency.
Pif personnel information file my leadership is under the impression that most of the air force does not use pifs anymore, stating that they are outdated and have been terminated by afi. Air force s federally funded research and development center for studies and analyses. The pla has the most extensive and well developed basing infrastructure in asia, and it competes in numbers with the former soviet and us basing infrastructures. Peoples liberation army air force and naval air arm air. Air superiority is a condition on the spectrum of air control, which ranges from. Peoples liberation army air force and naval air arm air base infrastructure. Chinas military is formally called the peoples liberation army, or pla. Pla navy, or plan also abbreviated as pla n, and its air force is called the pla air force, or plaaf. Two j20 stealth fighter jets of the pla air force performs in this 2018 file photo during the 12th airshow china, in zhuhai, guangdong province.
Any combination of file cabinet and computer files may be used. Pla air force strategic delivery capabilities are currently limited as well. Taiwan scrambles warships as pla navy aircraft carrier. The peoples liberation army air force plaaf is the aerial warfare service branch of the peoples liberation army, the armed forces of the peoples republic of china. It is with pleasure that i present japans national security policy infrastructure. Creation of the pla strategic support force ssf and increased testing of missiles by china in the recent past will enable her to launch a. Today, the peoples liberation army air force plaaf appears to be. Current army force structure 265 military regions regional headquarters 267. Peoples liberation army air power plaafplan capability. 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. China national radio reported that about 190 pilots. Pla air force lends support from the skies photo china. Han weiguo, 61, who was commander of the pla s central theatre command, became. For a relatively early plaaf assessment of the value of coercive air operations, see xie fengliang.
China refers to its ballistic missile force as the pla rocket force plarf. The fleet of comprehensive supply ships and tankers are few and relatively slow, while newer, more capable amphibious assault ships for transportation are few, albeit growing. Its navy is called the pla navy, or plan, and its air force is called the pla air force, or plaaf. At the heart of this reform is an effort to train officers under what the peoples liberation army refers to as actual combat conditions.
Cover image, navy frigate yantai of the 11th chinese naval escort flotilla. In the immediate postwar years they became popular as crop dusters, sports planes, and for aerobatic and wing walking use in air shows. Casis mission is to advance understanding of the capabilities, development, operating concepts, strategy, doctrine, personnel, organization, and limitations. China refers to its ballistic missile force as the second artillery force. Senior fellow, asian military affairs, international. In november 2014, the pla air force plaaf rolled out the new j31. It controls all intercontinental ballistic missiles, medium range and shortrange ballistic missiles. Casi is part of the rand corporations project air force. Annual report on the military power of the peoples republic of china. Get ready for the second phase of chinese military reform.
Plaaf, naval aviation, pla rocket forces, and the chinese militarys use of space. Pla air force demotes 190 senior pilots amid cleanup campaign the pla air force has disqualified more than 190 senior pilots from the posts as leaders and coaches, although they can still fly the warplanes, state media said on friday. Pla air force demotes 190 senior pilots amid cleanup. Peoples liberation army air force operations over water rand. Eleven transport aircraft of the peoples liberation army air force, including six large, domestically developed y20 planes, headed a massive operation to send 1,400 medics and supplies from seven cities to wuhan, hubei province, on thursday. Air force news, the official newspaper of the pla air. Pla air force to regularize training over first island chain september, 2016 peoples daily online several peoples liberation army pla air force aircraft, including h6k bombers, flew over bashi channel toward the western pacific ocean for highsea training on sept. The soviet union helped to establish the air force in 1949. The peoples liberation army air force in the early 21st century morgan j. This report focuses on pla air force operations over water, a topic with important implications for the united states and its allies and partners in the region.
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