PLA Navy fleet to conduct open sea exercises
Source: Xinhua |
January 31, 2013, Thursday
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A CHINESE People's Liberation Army Navy fleet has set off from a military port in east China's Qingdao City for regular open sea training in the west Pacific, military sources revealed yesterday.
The fleet departed on Tuesday morning and comprises three ships - the missile destroyer Qingdao and the missile frigates Yantai and Yancheng - carrying three helicopters, all from the North China Sea Fleet.
During the voyage, the fleet is scheduled to conduct multi-program training sessions in an area where China has been carrying out regular patrols, according to the sources.
Tian Zhong, the fleet commander, said conducting training in international waters is a normal practice among various navies around the world, as well as part of China's regular efforts to improve the PLA Navy's combat capabilities.
The fleet aims to boost its capabilities in carrying out diversified military missions through the open-sea training, according to Tian.
The fleet will conduct more than 20 types of exercises, including maritime confrontation, open-sea mobile combat, law enforcement missions and open-sea naval commanding.
The training area will include the Yellow, East China and South China seas, the Miyako Strait, the Bashi Channel and in areas east of Taiwan Island.
As part of the ongoing open-sea training, the fleet held a four-hour confrontation drill in the Yellow Sea on Tuesday with another PLA Navy fleet set to depart for escort missions in areas off Somalia.
The missile destroyer Qingdao and the missile frigates Yantai and Yancheng are all domestically produced ships.
The Qingdao, which is among China's second-generation missile destroyers, was commissioned in 1993 and has taken part in more than 50 key missions, including escort missions in the Gulf of Aden. It has a displacement of 4,800 tons. The Yantai was commissioned in 2011 and Yancheng last year. Both have a displacement of 4,050 tons.
The fleet departed on Tuesday morning and comprises three ships - the missile destroyer Qingdao and the missile frigates Yantai and Yancheng - carrying three helicopters, all from the North China Sea Fleet.
During the voyage, the fleet is scheduled to conduct multi-program training sessions in an area where China has been carrying out regular patrols, according to the sources.
Tian Zhong, the fleet commander, said conducting training in international waters is a normal practice among various navies around the world, as well as part of China's regular efforts to improve the PLA Navy's combat capabilities.
The fleet aims to boost its capabilities in carrying out diversified military missions through the open-sea training, according to Tian.
The fleet will conduct more than 20 types of exercises, including maritime confrontation, open-sea mobile combat, law enforcement missions and open-sea naval commanding.
The training area will include the Yellow, East China and South China seas, the Miyako Strait, the Bashi Channel and in areas east of Taiwan Island.
As part of the ongoing open-sea training, the fleet held a four-hour confrontation drill in the Yellow Sea on Tuesday with another PLA Navy fleet set to depart for escort missions in areas off Somalia.
The missile destroyer Qingdao and the missile frigates Yantai and Yancheng are all domestically produced ships.
The Qingdao, which is among China's second-generation missile destroyers, was commissioned in 1993 and has taken part in more than 50 key missions, including escort missions in the Gulf of Aden. It has a displacement of 4,800 tons. The Yantai was commissioned in 2011 and Yancheng last year. Both have a displacement of 4,050 tons.
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