People’s Liberation Army Navy (PLAN) and Russian Navy warships have made independent transits around Japan over the past few days, the Japanese Ministry of Defense said this week.
Japan spotted a Russian Navy corvette on Friday at 6 p.m. sailing east in an area 50 kilometers from Cape Soya, according to one of three new releases issued by the Joint Staff Office (JSO) of the Ministry of Defense Monday.
The image and pennant number provided in the release identified the corvette as RFS MPK-107 (332). The corvette then proceeded to transit La Pérouse Strait, which separates Hokkaido from Russia’s Sakhalin Island, and sailed into the Sea of Okhotsk. The Japanese MoD said Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force destroyer JS Shiranui (DD-120) monitored the Russian corvette.
A PLAN Luyang III-class destroyer was sighted transiting the Miyako Strait between Okinawa and Miyako Island, at 9 a.m. Saturday, before it sailed into the Pacific Ocean, according to the second JSO news release. The image and pennant number provided identifies the destroyer as CNS Nanjing (155).
A PLAN Jiangkai II-class frigate was sighted sailing south in the waters approximately 80 kilometers west of Uotsuri Island, part of the disputed Senkaku Islands held by Japan and claimed by both China and Taiwan, at 6 a.m. Sunday. The MoD’s provided image and pennant number identifies the ship as CNS Anyang (599). The PLAN frigate sailed south through the waters between Yonaguni Island, which is part of the Yaeyama Islands group, and Taiwan then into the Pacific Ocean.
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