OSINT disposition · updated daily
PLA Navy Tracker
There is no Chinese equivalent of the US fleet tracker, because Beijing publishes no deployments. So this is built the only honest way — from the disclosers and open sensors: Taiwan's daily activity counts, free satellite imagery over the home berths, and graded press sightings, fused by our Argus engine. Warships run dark and AIS is spoofable, so absence is not evidence of absence.
OSINT inference · not a position feed
PLA Navy — disposition snapshot
No state publishes PLAN deployments. This fuses the disclosers — Taiwan's MND daily tally, Japan's MoD, positional OSINT — and graded press sightings. Warships run dark and AIS is spoofable, so absence is not evidence of absence.
Around Taiwan — daily activity (Taiwan MND, grade A)
6
PLAN vessels
5
coast guard
29
aircraft
Positional fixes: AIS quiet · 3 military aircraft tracked · no active firing zones.
Reported movements & sightings (graded)
How America’s 250-year China dream became its greatest strategic challenge — South China Morning Post
What a helicopter’s flight in the Taiwan Strait says about Beijing’s war plans — South China Morning Post
The Liberation Army crossed off the restricted sea area and told Rubio with live ammunition who was the last name of the Taiwan Strait. — Chinese-language defence news (via Google News)
Amid Hormuz woes, China tests Central Asian land corridors to bypass maritime chokepoints — South China Morning Post
Is China building a new type of attack submarine? Satellite images hint at stealth gains — South China Morning Post
China and Asean eye closer energy cooperation as fighting flares up again in Middle East — South China Morning Post
Lai urges cross-party backing for drone procurement bill — Central News Agency (Focus Taiwan)
South China Sea: Beijing and Manila trade blame on second day of Scarborough Shoal clashes — South China Morning Post
Satellite — latest free imagery over home bases (ESA Copernicus, 10 m)
A carrier or large combatant is countable at a known pier. SAR sees through cloud. Click a base to open the imagery and count hulls.
Method: Argus Layer-1 collection, China-nexus filtered. The fix you can trust least is the one Beijing most wants you to see — the empty berth at Yulin tells you more than any transponder. What this disposition means runs in the Pacific Brief.
The tracker shows the picture. The brief is the judgment.
This page shows what open sources reveal about the PLA Navy. What that disposition means — the assessed read, the rival interpretation, PHIA likelihood language — runs in the weekly Pacific Brief.
Method: Taiwan MND daily PLA-activity counts (official, grade A); free ESA Copernicus Sentinel-1 SAR / Sentinel-2 optical over fixed PLAN bases (10 m — a carrier is countable at a pier); China-area corroborated events from the Argus collection engine; graded press/official sightings filtered to a China nexus. Source grades follow NATO Admiralty reliability. This is inference from reporting, not a live position feed. Full methodology →