Manufacturing

Chief of Naval Staff Admiral Noman Bashir was the Chief Guest at the launching ceremony of the 1st Fast Attack Craft (Missile) being built for Pakistan Navy here at Xingang Shipyard, Tianjin, China.

He said that the project of Fast Attack Craft (Missile) construction represents a quantum leap, not only in Defence Production in naval Sector of Pakistan, but also will meet the long standing operational requirement of Pakistan Navy for the Fast Attack Crafts.

AZMAT Class Fast Attack Craft (Missile) has a crew of 12 to 14 sailors which is less than half that of similar FAC(M). Each FAC(M) will cost of around $50 million each.

PNS AZMAT is speculated to be a 500-600 ton, 60-meter Fast Attack Craft (Missile) which will be equipped with eight C-802A/CSS-N-8 Saccade anti-ship missiles.

Tiangong 1 is ready for mission, in China space ship launch field.

China will embark on its first ever unmanned space program at the end of this month, with the launch of the Tiangong-1 (the “Heavenly Palace-1”) space module from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Centre in northwest China's Gansu Province, said state-owned news service Xinhua on Thursday.

Chinese state media reports that the Tiangong-1 will be used as a testing site for a full-fledged space station that the country hopes to deploy by 2020.

"Tiangong - is, I think, primarily a technology test bed," said Joan Johnson-Freese, a U.S.-based expert on China's space program, to AFP.

Toyota Motor will manufacture the Prius hybrid and its key parts in China in a bid to boost sales in the world's largest car market, a company spokeswoman said Sunday.

This will mark the first time the Japanese automaker has produced key components such as motors and batteries for the petrol-electric hybrid in a facility outside Japan.

Toyota manufactured the second model of the Prius in China, with key components exported from Japan, but stopped the operation in 2009.

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