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.

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gold diamond = PLAN naval base (click for imagery)dot = corroborated event (size = sources, colour = grade)○ = chokepoint

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)

7

PLAN vessels

7

coast guard

0

aircraft

2026-07-057 ships · 7 CCG · 0 air
2026-07-0410 ships · 7 CCG · 8 air
2026-07-037 ships · 5 CCG · 30 air · median crossed
2026-07-026 ships · 5 CCG · 5 air · median crossed
2026-07-0110 ships · 3 CCG · 13 air · median crossed
2026-06-3010 ships · 3 CCG · 2 air

Positional fixes: AIS quiet · 1 military aircraft tracked · no active firing zones.

Reported movements & sightings (graded)

B

China announces joint naval exercise, patrol with Russia — NHK World

F

China expands Taiwan patrols despite rising regional tensions - Daily Times — Unknown / Other

C

Russian warships dock in Chinese port ahead of Joint Sea exercises — South China Morning Post

C

Iran’s new Supreme Leader Mojtaba Khamenei holds ‘positive’ view of China, ambassador says — South China Morning Post

F

Taiwan detects hike in Chinese incursions around its territory - The Tribune — Unknown / Other

C

Beijing sends new coastguard force into waters east of Taiwan — South China Morning Post

C

China’s influence on African ports extends to software, automation and AI: study — South China Morning Post

F

Taiwan Strait risk exposes NZ trade supply chains - B2B News — Unknown / Other

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.

Dalianoptical 2026-07-06 · SAR 2026-06-30Jiangnan / Changxing, Shanghaioptical 2026-07-03 · SAR 2026-06-28Qingdao (Jiaozhou Bay)optical 2026-07-04 · SAR 2026-06-23Yulin (Yalong Bay), Hainanoptical 2026-07-05 · SAR 2026-07-04Zhanjiang, Guangdongoptical 2026-07-05 · SAR 2026-07-04Zhoushan / Ningbooptical 2026-07-03 · SAR 2026-06-28

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 →