PLAN Anti-Piracy Deployments

Looking great!! I was wondering how China will visit Romania they will have to enter the black sea

But they should have sent in something like Type 052C and not 113, for overseas visits they should stick to Type 052C and Type 054A they are representing China on the international stage and should send their newest and most modern warships abroad it will look very impressive

11th Chinese naval escort taskforce passes through Suez Canal

Excellent photos escobar!

I passed through the Suez canal twice on the USS America (CV 66) in 1981.

passing through the Suez is a very good experience for Navys and even more so for China, its narrow and very shallow, its high profile and anyone who has done it will know that the Commanders of the ships have to be very focused, there are many dangers and also now the threat of pirates as you come out and terrorists along the way

the most challenging is passing a nuclear submarine through the straits, it requires very high level of knowledge and talent, as per the Suez rules submarines have to pass through while surfaced, they are not allowed to dive, and that makes SSNs very vunerable to attacks by armed groups even firing off a RPG

nevertheles this is very good learning experience for China and passing through such a busy shipping lane is exciting, and i hope one day China can pass through a Type 095 SSN or maybe even a aircraft carrier, USN use the strait alot for thier ships and when a SSN is passing they get a escort by the Egyptian army all the way along the canal because a attack on a USN SSN would mean bad news for Egypt so they look after Americans too much

Leaving Romania's Constanta port

Arrival at the Bulgarian Black Sea port of Varna

11th escort fleet arrived in Israel's Haifa Port Monday, starting a four-day goodwill visit.

that is interesting, Haifa is home to the Israeli Navy missiles boats flotilla and a submarine flotilla, but i think i see 2 x Saar 4.5 and 2 x Saar 5 in the background in the second picture

Saar 5 is a good ship, but they have only 3 and when it was required to perform it was hit by a C802 anti-ship missiles in 2006 by Hezbollah, the warhead did not go off, had it, i am sure the light corvette would have sunk

i bet the Israelis had a really good look at the the modern looking Type 054A FFG and i am sure this visit did not go un-noticed by the Americans either