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delft

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Another anti-piracy project:
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28 July

PIRACY
West Africa: Chinese military will join the international anti-piracy effort in the Gulf of Guinea by (financially and technically) helping littoral states in the region build necessary infrastructure
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1)The site stimulator is very likely for the 002 Aircraft carrier, as the ski ramp has been removed- indicating that 002 would be a flat-top using either CATBOBAR or EMALS.

2)The island's structure has been modified and resembles those of the
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class of carriers.

3)The fact that a)Chinese
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technology has reached maturity, along with b)the completion of the setting up of the site simulator- hints that construction of 002 would begin anytime soon.

4)The 002 AC would be a whole new class and not an improvement of the 001A.
 
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siegecrossbow

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230 fishing boats!!? Is that a typo?

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TOKYO (Reuters) - Japan issued a new protest to Beijing on Saturday after Chinese coastguard ships and about 230 fishing vessels sailed close to what Tokyo considers its territorial waters around disputed islets in the East China Sea, Japan's foreign ministry said.

The latest incident comes amid heightened tensions in Asia, less than a month after an arbitration court in the Hague invalidated China's sweeping claims in the disputed South China Sea, in a case brought by the Philippines.

China has refused to recognize the ruling. Japan called on China to adhere to the verdict, which it said was binding, prompting warnings from Beijing to Tokyo not to interfere.

Three of the six Chinese coastguard ships that were in the so-called contiguous waters on Saturday appeared to be armed, Japan's Coast Guard said.

On Friday, a Japanese foreign ministry official said Chinese coastguard ships and fishing vessels entered what Tokyo considers its territorial waters around the islets.

Beijing claims the uninhabited, Tokyo-controlled East China Sea islands, called the Senkaku in Japan and Diaoyu in China, and occasionally sends its coastguard vessels near them.

A senior Japanese foreign ministry official on Saturday issued a protest to a Chinese embassy official in Tokyo calling on the coastguard ships to leave the area immediately and condemning the action as a unilateral escalation of tensions, the ministry said.

Japanese Vice Foreign Minister Shinsuke Sugiyama on Friday summoned China's ambassador to Japan, Cheng Yonghua, to lodge a strong protest, the ministry said.

Chinese officials could not immediately be reached for comment on Saturday.

China on Friday accused Japan's new defense minister, Tomomi Inada, of recklessly misrepresenting history after she declined to say whether Japanese troops massacred civilians in China during World War Two.

Ties between China and Japan, the world's second- and third-largest economies, have been plagued by the territorial row, the legacy of Japans' wartime occupation of parts of China and regional rivalry.

(Reporting by Kiyoshi Takenaka and Osamu Tsukimori; Editing by Richard Balmforth and Ed Davies)
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FORBIN

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From Henri K blog with a gallery

Exercise of the Eastern Fleet in East China Sea

From 9 to 11 August 2016, several warships to the Eastern Fleet conducted a naval exercise in the East China Sea.

The photos published on the website of the Chinese army show than two Destroyers Flotillas of the Chinese Navy - 3rd and 6th Destroyers Flotillas - participated in the exercise.

You can see at least :
• 1 Type 052C destroyer
• 1 destroyer class 956EM Sovremenny
• 3 Type 054A frigates
• 1 supply tanker Type 903

The exact locations of the naval exercise is not known, no navigation warning is issued to that effect.

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230 fishing boats is accurate.

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According to one article, “China currently has 30,000 iron-hulled mechanized fishing trawlers (each vessel can carry 10 mines), and there are another 50,000 sail-fishing craft (each can carry 2–5 sea mines).

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Chinese Mine Warfare Report
Naval War College

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FORBIN

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Very interesting matter :)

And how many mines, what density for a significant minefield, close coast, ennemy port, straits ?
The more big Minelayers, exist few classes carry about 300 mines.

PLAN had Wolei 2500 t, max 200 mines but transfered to Coast Guards
 
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AndrewS

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The report just talks about Chinese capabilities.

The rest is up to your imagination, but mine warfare has moved on since 2009, and there's all sorts of stuff China could do with smart mines/torpedoes now.
 
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