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February 11, 2021 – A fleet of the People’s Liberation Army Navy on Thursday set off for Pakistan to attend a multilateral joint naval exercise at the invitation of the Pakistani navy, China’s Ministry of National Defense said. The drill, code-named “Peace-21,” is set to be conducted in waters near the city of Karachi, the ministry said in a statement.…
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February 13, 2020 (Google Translation) – Admiral Muhammad Amjad Khan Niyasi, Commander of the Naval Forces of the Islamic Republic of Pakistan, visited the frigate Admiral Grigorovich in the port of Karachi to participate in the AMAN-2021 international exercise. After the solemn ceremony of the meeting of the head of the Pakistani Navy with the participation of the honor guard,…
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February 12, 2021 – A Chinese People’s Liberation Army (PLA) Navy flotilla led by a Type 052D destroyer on Thursday started participating in a multinational exercise in Pakistan, a unique platform experts said that provides opportunities for Chinese and Russian navies to come together with their counterparts from the US and other Western countries. Invited by the Pakistan Navy, the…
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December 16, 2020 (Google Translation) – A detachment of ships of the Baltic Fleet, consisting of the Stoyky corvette, the Kola medium tanker and the Yakov Grebelsky sea tug, went to sea to fulfill the planned tasks of a long voyage. On board the corvette there is a ship-borne Ka-27 helicopter with a crew and specially trained marine units. During…
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December 10, 2020 (Google Translation) – A planning conference on the participation of the Navy in the international exercise AMAN-2021 (AMAN-2021), which will be held in February 2021 in the water area of the Pakistani port of Karachi, was held in Sevastopol online. The initiators of working out joint actions were the Naval Forces of the Islamic Republic of Pakistan,…
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October 25, 2020 – The keel laying ceremony of 2nd MILGEM Class Corvette for Pakistan Navy held at Karachi Shipyard and Engineering Works (KS&EW). Minister of National Defence of the Republic of Turkey, H.E Mr. Hulusi Akar, graced the occasion as Chief Guest. The ceremony was attended by Minister for Defence Production, Ms Zubaida Jalal and Chief of the Naval…
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Sixty years ago this May, Francis Gary Powers was piloting a U-2 on a reconnaissance mission for the Central Intelligence Agency when he was shot down over the Soviet Union. This flight was to be the first U-2 flight across the whole of Russia; it turned out to also be the last. Powers was the most experienced U-2 pilot, having…
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