Tracking Chinese military equipment failure

jmaxwell_

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This thread is intended to catalog and discuss Chinese military equipment failures.
The goal is to capture failures reported through accidents, exports, exercises, or battlefield observation to empirically study engineering limitations, procurement culture, and testing philosophy to expose the substandard equipment of the Chinese.
Ridicule is just an added bonus!

Failure of Chinese radars during US Operation Epic Fury in Iran

Feb 2026
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More failure of Chinese radars during US 3-hr Special Military Operation in Venezuela

Jan 2026
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VT-4 Trunion structure failure in Thailand/Cambodia War

Dec 2025
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Type-90B MLRS Failure in Thailand/Cambodia War

Dec 2025
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Type 59G Tank Durjoy Baffle Failure

May 2024
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Chinese Type 96B tank Carbon Monoxide Poisoning

2020
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Submarine undersea Trap Failure

Nov 2023
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DF17 Missile Failure

March 2024
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Chinese Nuclear Sub simply sinks!

Mid 2024
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I wonder if the system sent to Iran was fully operationalized, secondly we have to remember that Mossad has deeply penetrated Iranian leadership including the IRGC. Many Israeli spies (women) even married and had children with a lot of the leadership.