Tracking Chinese military equipment failure

[jmaxwell_]

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

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

Jan 2026

VT-4 Trunion structure failure in Thailand/Cambodia War​

Dec 2025

Type-90B MLRS Failure in Thailand/Cambodia War​

Dec 2025

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Type 59G Tank Durjoy Baffle Failure​

May 2024

Chinese Type 96B tank Carbon Monoxide Poisoning​

2020

Submarine undersea Trap Failure​

Nov 2023

DF17 Missile Failure​

March 2024

Chinese Nuclear Sub simply sinks!​

Mid 2024

 

[jmaxwell_]

Operation Sindoor Chinese equipment failures​

May 2025

 

[Professor∆Baaz]

Operation Sindoor Chinese equipment failures​

May 2025
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Good thread mate , since china always try to hide their equipment failures , its important we talk about them openly.

 

[jmaxwell_]

 

[jmaxwell_]

YLC-8B failure during Operation Epic Fury

 

[jmaxwell_]

Post in thread 'Israel, US Strike Iran After Weeks Of Warning, Explosions Heard In Tehran' by @Shan Israel, US Strike Iran After Weeks Of Warning, Explosions Heard In Tehran



Media reports in September quoting Abolfazl Zohrevand, a member of the Iranian parliament’s National Security Committee, suggested that Iran received Chinese-made HQ-9B surface-to-air missiles from China.

 

[calutronking]

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.

 

[jmaxwell_]

Cambodia complains that much of the weapons supplied by China were defective​

Dec 2025

 

[jmaxwell_]

Iran unhappy with Chinese HQ-9B in their war with US/Israel​

Mar 2026

 

[jmaxwell_]

Poor performance of Chinese drones during Operation Sindoor​

May 2025


Bonus round: Turkish crap also called out!

 

[jmaxwell_]

Chinese J-20 designer executed by the CCP?​

Mar 2026

 

[jmaxwell_]

Chinese J-20 designer executed by the CCP?​

More confirmation from SCMP:

 

[Ashwin]

https://twitter.com/x/status/2003000851728896390

 

[jmaxwell_]

Chinese ZBD-04A IFV discharges into people - equipment failure or lack of training?​

Mar 2026

https://twitter.com/x/status/2037590538908549459

 

[lmaoxd]

Chinese ZBD-04A IFV discharges into people - equipment failure or lack of training?​

Mar 2026

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https://twitter.com/x/status/2037590538908549459

or just a soldier who didnt really like the guys observing and wanted to blame it on a technical fault

 

[jmaxwell_]

Every four out of five F-7 in the fleet grounded for maintenance, needs to be shipped back to China​

Nov 2020

 

[jmaxwell_]

Chinese-made Dong Feng-15 ballistic missile launched at the Houthis crash lands in civilian areas in Marib, Yemen​

2026

 

[jmaxwell_]

Chinese origin Type 69IIG tank explodes during firing exercise​

2026


Tanker awarded the highest official high jump.

 

[Nithees1]

Chinese-made Dong Feng-15 ballistic missile launched at the Houthis crash lands in civilian areas in Marib, Yemen​

2026

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that does looks like just a booster to me, though i maybe wrong here

 

[jmaxwell_]

that does looks like just a booster to me, though i maybe wrong here

The video may be of the booster but the reporting is that it failed.