Monday, December 22, 2024

China's fleet to Somalia

I haven't had a chance in the last few days to post, because my internet was cut off (I'm moving to a new apartment). I did receive one shocking news over the weekend. The fleet that China is sending to Somalia looks to be far more formidable than orignally thought. It will be sending ships 169, 171 and 887 there from the Sanya sea base. For those who don't know, 169 is one of the two 052B class destroyers in service with SSF, 171 is the latter construct of the 052C class (making it possibly the most advanced destroyer currently in service with PLAN) and 887 is one of the new generation replenishment ship just joined SSF in the past 3 years. And the Sanya base is the one that was reported with alarm as the home of China's new SSBNs. The Chinese version of the news can be found in Xinhua website.

I'm not really sure what is going on here. It seems that PLAN is very confident with these ships and aren't afraid to show them off. And it doesn't look like they are going to send a tug ship along with the fleet like the Russians did.
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