Type 022 stealth missile boats affiliated with the Chinese People's Liberation Army (PLA) Eastern Theater Command Navy recently held live-fire combat-oriented drills that featured guns being fired, shooting of jamming rounds and the release of smoke, showing what analysts said the ships' new support role in coastal combat.
2020-04-09 20:05A far sea joint training fleet of the Chinese PLA Navy returned to base after sailing 14,000 nautical miles and crossing the International Date Line deep into the Pacific Ocean for the first time.
2020-02-26 21:32A warship fleet of the Chinese PLA Navy recently conducted an air defense exercise in the far seas of the Pacific Ocean, a move experts said on Monday showed the Navy's high capability in the Pacific waters.
2020-02-18 20:54A warship fleet of the Chinese People's Liberation Army (PLA) Navy recently conducted an air defense exercise in the far seas of the Pacific Ocean, a move experts said on Monday showed the Navy's high capability in the Pacific waters.
2020-02-18 09:13The 14th Chinese military medical expert team sent by the Naval Military Medical University of the PLA to Cambodia were awarded the "Peace Knight Medal" by the Cambodian Defense Ministry at a ceremony on the afternoon of January 21.
2020-01-22 18:18Creative products inspired by China's first fully homegrown aircraft carrier, Shandong, were unveiled at a launch event at the Military Museum of the Chinese People's Revolution in Beijing on Tuesday.
2020-01-09 09:02The guided-missile frigate Weifang of the 33rd Chinese naval escort taskforce under the PLA Navy successfully escorted eight fishing boats of to the designated sea area in waters west of the Gulf of Aden at 4 p.m. on January 6.
2020-01-08 15:36The PN-PLAN Bilateral Exercise, code-named Sea Guardians-2020, kicked off at the Pakistan Navy Dock Yard in Karachi, Pakistan on the morning of January 6, local time.
2020-01-06 16:46The Chinese navy's guided-missile destroyer Xining (Hull 117) sailed out of the Chabahar Port in southern Iran on December 30, 2019, local time, after completing the four-day China-Russia-Iran joint naval exercise.
2020-01-02 18:03China commissioned CNS Shandong — its second aircraft carrier and the first such ship wholly designed and built in the country — in Sanya, Hainan province, on Tuesday afternoon.
2019-12-17 18:40The commissioning marked China’s entry into an age of double carriers, an achievement only a few countries in the world have accomplished, experts said.
2019-12-17 18:49President Xi Jinping attended the commissioning ceremony of China's first domestically-built aircraft carrier, the Shandong, here Tuesday afternoon.
2019-12-17 18:34Chinese naval hospital ship Peace Ark on Friday was bestowed the title of "role model of the times" in recognition of its outstanding service.
2019-12-14 01:03Along with local medical staff, the medical team from the PLA Support Base Hospital in Djibouti has successfully completed 10 cataract surgeries at the Peltier Hospital on December 8.
2019-12-09 17:02The missile frigate Weifang from the 33rd escort fleet of the Chinese People's Liberation Army (PLA) Navy arrived at the port of Mombasa, Kenya for technical docking Sunday morning.
2019-12-08 22:42The Taihu, a military supply ship, conducted a replenishment docking with civilian container ship Fuzhou in an offshore area in mid-November amid the PLA exploration of new ways to replenish ships at sea, the PLA Daily reported Monday.
2019-12-03 01:38On November 28, local time, the joint maritime exercise code-named Mosi, which is held by China, Russia and South Africa in waters of southern Africa, entered the sea operation phase.
2019-11-29 16:46The South African navy is hosting the Multinational Maritime Exercise with Russia and China in Cape Town.
2019-11-27 00:29A JL-9 fighter trainer attached to the PLA Naval Aviation University takes off for flight training in Hebei province recently.
2019-11-24 07:16Fiji and China have enjoyed excellent and stable relations with military cooperation in the past and continue to benefit from this.
2019-11-07 16:15Chinese naval training ship Qi Jiguang arrived in Suva, capital of Fiji, for a four-day friendly visit on Monday morning. This is the first time that the vessel visits Fiji after it was commissioned.
2019-11-05 17:47The Chinese naval training ship Qi Jiguang, which is conducting the ocean-going training and nation-visiting mission, arrived in Wellington, capital of New Zealand on October 26.
2019-10-28 17:31The guided-missile destroyer Xining (Hull 117) attached to the 33rd Chinese naval escort taskforce under the PLA Navy docked at the Port of Jeddah of Saudi Arabia on October 25.
2019-10-28 17:06Chinese naval training ship Qi Jiguang (Hull 83), which is carrying out a two-month ocean-going training and visit mission, arrived at the Port Moresby, Papua New Guinea's capital, for a four-day goodwill visit on Tuesday morning, local time.
2019-10-16 16:36Chinese warship expressed its good-intended concerns to the victims of the disaster in Japan. The warship has hung its banners in both Chinese and Japanese on the hull, with the words Best wishes to the people affected by the typhoon and for the early reconstruction of disaster areas.
2019-10-15 17:46Chinese naval training ship Qi Jiguang (Hull 83), which is carrying out a two-month ocean-going training and visit mission, crossed an important strait, the Torres Strait on Sunday.
2019-10-14 17:41The Chinese naval training ship Qi Jiguang (Hull 83) successfully wrapped up its friendly visit to Timor-Leste and left for Papua New Guinea on Thursday.
2019-10-11 17:25A Type 052D missile destroyer of the PLA Navy, Taiyuan, arrived in Yokosuka, Japan on Thursday to take part in an international fleet review of Japan's MSDF.
2019-10-11 10:34Timor-Leste Prime Minister Taur Matan Ruak visited the Chinese naval training ship Qi Jiguang (Hull 83) at the Port of Dili alongside his wife Isabel on Tuesday morning.
2019-10-10 16:43Chinese naval training ship Qi Jiguang arrived at the Port of Dili, East Timor, for a four-day friendly visit on October 6. This is the first time that the vessel visits East Timor, and the third time that Chinese naval vessels visit East Timor.
2019-10-08 17:25China showcased its JL-2 nuclear-capable submarine-launched ballistic missiles (SLBM) for the first time during the National Day parade in Beijing on Tuesday.
2019-10-01 16:31The Chinese naval training ship Qi Jiguang (Hull 83) that is carrying out a two-month ocean-going training and visit mission, made its first port call on Friday morning at the Port of Muara, Brunei, for a three-day friendly visit.
2019-09-29 17:35The Chinese naval training ship Qi Jiguang (Hull 83), carrying 517 sailors and cadets, left a military port in Dalian for ocean-going training at 10 a.m. on September 20.
2019-09-23 17:18China Shipbuilding Industry Corporation and the Royal Thai Navy held the signing ceremony of the shipbuilding agreement on exporting Type 071E landing platform dock in Beijing on Sept 9.
2019-09-11 17:19On the morning of September 7, the Indonesian naval training ship Kri Bima Suci (945), headed by Lieutenant Colonel Waluyo, the commanding officer of the Kri Bima Sicu, dropped anchor at a military port in Wusong, Shanghai for a two-day courtesy call.
2019-09-09 17:31The 33rd fleet from the Chinese PLA Navy on Thursday left the port city of Qingdao in east China's Shandong Province for the Gulf of Aden to escort civilian ships.
2019-08-29 21:43China's first military maritime medical aid simulation training system has made its public debut.
2019-08-23 16:57Sri Lanka Navy held commissioning ceremony at the Colombo port on Thursday for China-gifted frigate "P625", renamed "Parakramabahu".
2019-08-23 08:12The Chinese PLA's first Simulation Training System for Maritime Medical Rescue has been successfully developed recently.
2019-08-22 16:48The Chinese Navy guided-missile destroyer Xi'an completed the four-day technical stop, sailed out of the Port of Alexandria, Egypt on Monday and then conducted a joint exercise with the Egyptian navy ship Arafat on the waters off the north of Alexandria.
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