New from Office of Naval Intelligence (ONI)! 2024 Recognition & Identification Guides for 1) China People’s Liberation Army (PLAN) & 2) China Coast Guard & Government Maritime Forces
Attention, Attention, Attention—This is not a drill! Don’t miss the China government naval/maritime ship recognition Order of Battle (OOB) guides that the U.S. Office of Naval Intelligence (ONI) just released! It’s the first time this unparalleled resource has been publicly updated in 15.5 months… And, for the first time ever, ONI has divided its exquisitely-detailed visual OOB into two separate subcomponents:
- China People’s Liberation Army Navy (PLAN) Recognition and Identification Guide
- China Coast Guard and Government Maritime Forces Recognition and Identification Guide
Graphics combined below for reference:
Bottom line: Unrivaled resource, worth waiting for, must examine now! PRC Navy, Coast Guard, and Maritime Militia forces, etc., all documented authoritatively as nowhere else.
Even a quick glance reveals the sheer scope and scale of Beijing’s three Sea Forces. The only downside to digesting this Open Source/OSINT cornucopia is that you may need to strengthen your eyeglass prescription to discern the dozens of hull forms and hundreds of pennant numbers…
Click here to download cached files:
China People’s Liberation Army Navy (PLAN) Recognition and Identification Guide (Suitland, MD: U.S. Office of Naval Intelligence, 29 April 2024).
China Coast Guard and Government Maritime Forces Recognition and Identification Guide (Suitland, MD: U.S. Office of Naval Intelligence, 29 April 2024).
