The Seven PLAN task group led by destroyer 'Shenyang' has arrived at the Vladivostok naval base today for Naval Cooperation 2015 II. Udaloy destroyer, Marshal Shaposhnikov, met the surface detachment and accompanied them to the docking site with pilotage services.
Chinese sailors were met by representatives of the Russian navy command of the Pacific, with Vice-Admiral Alexander Fedotenkov and deputy commander of the Chinese Navy Rear Admiral Wang Hai emphasizing that the upcoming naval exercises will be the most ambitious in the modern history of cooperation between the two navies, and will not be directed against other states during a presentation.
The main objectives of the exercise will be improving the organization to conduct joint operations at sea, on land and in the air. During the active phase of the naval maneuvers from 24th to 27th August sailors will work out issues of practical organization of joint anti-sabotage, anti-submarine, anti-aircraft and anti-ship defence.
In addition, the sailors will spend shooting various types of surface, underwater and air targets. The culmination of the exercise will be a joint amphibious and airborne assault on the range clerk in the Southern Primorye. The joint Russian and Chinese landing of Marines in Russia will be a first.
The joint exercise will involve 22 ships and support vessels, 20 aircraft and helicopters, more than 500 troops of marines and 40 units of equipment from both sides.The exercises will be completed by August 28th, concluding with a sea parade and a farewell ceremony in the Gulf of Peter the Great.
