December 16, 2019 (Google Translation) – On 12/16, four Chinese naval vessels sailed north between Okinawa and Miyakojima and sailed toward the East China Sea. The Ministry of Defense and the Self-Defense Forces will continue to pay close attention to trends in China’s naval vessels in the waters around Japan, and will make every effort to conduct surveillance and surveillance…
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May 2, 2019 (Google Translation) – Today, in accordance with the plan of the bilateral Russian-Chinese naval exercise “Marine Interaction-2019” in the Yellow Sea, the crews of the rescue vessels of the Pacific Fleet and the PLA Navy have worked out an episode to assist an emergency submarine lying on the ground. During the maritime phase of the exercise, the…
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August 7, 2018 (Xinhua) – The plan of China and the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) to conduct a joint maritime exercise in the South China Sea “is very important” to the region, Philippine Foreign Secretary Alan Peter Cayetano said on Tuesday. “The exercise is important,” Cayetano told Xinhua at a press conference. “It’s very important that there are…
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China has mastered air-independent propulsion (AIP) technology, which allows its non-nuclear submarines to reach the advanced level of similar systems in other parts of the world. The Type 039-B submarine serving the People’s Liberation Army (PLA) Navy’s East Sea Fleet has been equipped with the effective AIP system and noise reduction capabilities, allowing it to have increased propulsion performance and…
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Google Translation On Wednesday, January 10 (Wednesday afternoon), the Maritime Self-Defense Force Episode 6 escort ship “Oonami” (Yokosuka) and the fifth flight group affiliation “P-3C” (Naha) are connecting waters in the east-northeast of Miyakojima (Okinawa Prefecture) I confirmed a submarine to go north west. After that, the submarine continued northwestward, and went out of the connected waters of the northern…
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Guided-missile frigate Xuzhou (Hull 530) steam in formation in waters of the East China Sea during a maritime training exercise in late September. They are attached to a destroyer flotilla with the PLA Navy’s East China Sea Fleet. (eng.chinamil.com.cn/Photo by Wen Zidong) [smartslider3 slider=10]
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A Chinese naval flotilla Monday returned to a military port in the city of Sanya in southern China’s Hainan Province after a military exercise with the Russian navy in the Baltic Sea. The formation, comprising missile destroyer “Hefei,” missile frigate “Yuncheng” and supply vessel “Luomahu,” was the first Chinese fleet to ever sail in the region for a military exercise.…
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China’s 26th convoy fleet to Gulf of Aden and Somali waters arrived at Port of Antwerp on Thursday for a five-day friendly visit, marking the first time that a Chinese navy formation visits Belgium. “Even mountains and seas cannot distance people with common aspirations,” fleet commander Wang Zhongcai quoted a Chinese saying at the welcome ceremony, which was attended by…
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The People’s Liberation Army is now able to send its CNS Liaoning carrier battle group farther into oceans thanks to the deployment of the nation’s largest replenishment ship. The CNS Hulun Lake, the first in the Type-901 class, which has a hull code of 965, was commissioned for service in the PLA Navy on Friday at Guangzhou Shipyard International Co…
Read MoreUS Department of Defense has released more photos from RIMPAC 2016 subsequent to printing of our FREE souvenir book. Twenty-six nations, more than 40 ships and submarines, more than 200 aircraft and 25,000 personnel are participating in RIMPAC from June 30 to Aug. 4, in and around the Hawaiian Islands Photo…
Read MoreJanuary 22, 2017 (ChinaMil) – The commissioning ceremony for the guided-missile frigate Ezhou (Hull No. 513) was held at a naval port of the East China Sea Fleet of the PLA Navy in east China’s Fujian province on January 18, 2017. The Ezhou is a new member of the Type 056 corvettes family of the PLA Navy. It is 89…
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