Re: Somali pirates and Chinese navy
According to the article below, it did happen but everyone is still unsure about the nationality of the sub.
:china::china::china:
India: Our sub didn’t stalk China ships
By Sridhar Kumaraswami
New Delhi
Feb. 4: Indian defence sources on Wednesday said no Indian submarine had "stalked" any Chinese Navy destroyer in the Gulf of Aden and dismissed reports in this regard published in a section of the Chinese media.
According to Chinese media reports, the two Chinese destroyers — which are on anti-piracy patrols in the Gulf of Aden — were "stalked" by an Indian Navy submarine in the region which they alleged, was trying to track the "electronic signals and sonar data" of the Chinese destroyers.
"There is no question of any Indian submarine being involved in any such incident," Indian naval sources said without revealing any details on operational deployment of Indian submarines. It is believed that submarines of most navies are present in international waters. Officially, the Indian Navy maintains that only one of its ships is on anti-piracy patrols in the Gulf of Aden. There was no word on whether Indian submarines are deployed in the Gulf of Aden.
According to Chinese media reports, the tense stand-off between the Chinese destroyers and the Indian naval submarine lasted half-an-hour and included a chase by the destroyers following which the "cornered" submarine was forced to surface and then sail away. But the worrying aspect are the reports that said the Chinese naval commanders had deployed their torpedo-carrying anti-submarine helicopters and had threatened to use them against the submarine if it did not surface.
According to reports, the Chinese Navy soon identified the submarine as a 70-metre-long vessel armed with 20 torpedoes which tried to "jam" the sonar systems of the Chinese destroyers.
The Indian Navy had begun anti-piracy patrols in the Gulf of Aden last year against Somali pirates in the region. The US Navy, too, had recently welcomed anti-piracy patrolling by the Chinese Navy. With the Indian Navy now stating that its submarine was not involved in any such incident, speculation has been triggered as to whether the submarine belonged to the Navy of a Western country.
