A Chinese surface group sailed past Japanese islands to enter the Pacific Ocean on Wednesday while a PLAN surveillance ship sailed through the Miyako Strait on Thursday to enter the Pacific Ocean according to the Japanese Ministry of Defense.
On Wednesday the Joint Staff Office (JSO) issued a released stating that at 9 a.m. on the same day, the Japan Maritime Self Defense Force sighted a People’s Liberation Army Navy Luyang III destroyer and a Jiangkai II frigate sailing southeast in an area around 75 miles northwest of Amami Oshima Island.
The two ships were joined by a Yuzhao class Landing Platform Dock and a Fuchi class replenishment ship and the four ships sailed east between Amami Oshima Island and Yokoate Island into the Pacific Ocean. Hull numbers provided in the release correspond to destroyer CNS Xiamen (154), frigate CNS Binzhou (515), LPD CNS Siming Shan (986) while the hull number for the Fuichi class (904) does not correspond to any of the ships in the class but the PLAN has been renumbering several of its auxiliary and support ships.
Russia’s Defence Ministry in a release on Friday announced that the Russian Pacific Fleet has begun exercises in the Pacific Ocean. The exercises involve over 40 warships and support vessels, as well as 20 planes and helicopters and will end on June 10 10, in accordance with the Pacific Fleet’s 2022 training schedule stated the release. The Defence Ministry also added in the release that the exercise would involve task groups together with naval aviation units detecting notional enemy submarines, training in air defense of ship groups along with conducting combat and training exercise involving surface and aerial targets. The exercises will also involve training in technical and logistical support of at sea units.
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