PLAN Anti-Piracy Deployments

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UCSDAE said:

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again I will save the translation, since the pictures are worth a thousand words
These are pics of the spec-op team that will accompany the task force.

interesting thing to note is the body armor.

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Excellent photos! Thanks for posting that link. I shall post those photos here and the Chinese pix thread.

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the decision to send these paticular ship could be purely political. It is possible that every captain or admiral in the chinese navy are eager to sign on this cruise because of the publicity. And the competition over the assignment results in those paticular ships being sent.

Imaging how good your resume would look if you were the first chinese captain to be deployed outside of Chinese water in such a long time, this tour of duty will certainly help officers if they want to become future chief of staff of PLA.

Since 170 and 171 are the newest and best ships, their captains are probably rising stars withing the chinese military. This probably gave them more political clouts, and in turn gives them an advantage when everyone is fighting over who gets to go to somalia.

As far as which vessels are "better" at fighting pirates, its probably arent the most important factor in the decisions.

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Deploying these ships makes sense to me, both because this is sort of China's naval coming out party, and the PLAN needs to make a good impression, but also because to properly hunt pirates the ships need powerful radars and helicopters.

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Excellent photos! Thanks for posting that link. I shall post those photos here and the Chinese pix thread.

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i think this mission can offer valuable lesson for the PLA, PLASOFs
i see benefits and not much bad side, of course if the task force proved to be strong as its name and defend well against the pirates

however i want to know why they're wearing that camo for their body armor...don't they have black?
it just doesnt blend in

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Good for Chinese marines and seamen. They get first-time experience in combat against a few guerrilla sea-terrorists.

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according to CCTV4
the displacement of 052B is 5500 ton, 052C is 5909 ton and 887 is 20000 ton, seems like they are talking about standard displacement because we know 052B and 887's max displacement to be higher.

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The PLAN Task Force to Africa has departed! :china: This is a momentous day for the PLAN! Best Wishes to these Sailors and Marines! :china:

Chinese Navy(PLAN) sailors send off a warship for the Chinese Navy's(PLAN) first overseas operation from Sanya, southern China's Hainan province Friday, Dec. 26, 2008. On Friday, warships armed with special forces, missiles and helicopters will sail for anti-piracy duty off Somalia, the first time the communist nation has sent ships on a mission that could involve fighting so far beyond its territorial waters.

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A helicopter that will join the Chinese Navy's first oversea operation flies over a port in Sanya, southern China's Hainan province Friday, Dec. 26, 2008.

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China Navy's destroyers, the Haikou, top left, and the Wuhan, bottom left, and supply ship the Weishanhu, right, are moored at port before leaving for the Navy's first oversea operation from Sanya, southern China's Hainan province Friday, Dec. 26, 2008.

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In this photo released by China's Xinhua News Agency, Chinese Navy's DDG-171 Haikou destroyer is seen in Sanya, capital of South China's Hainan Province Thursday, Dec. 25, 2008. On Friday, warships armed with special forces, missiles and helicopters will sail for anti-piracy duty off Somalia, the first time the communist nation has sent ships on a mission that could involve fighting so far beyond its territorial waters.

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Xie Zengling, a co-leader of the special force on board of Chinese navy's DDG-171 Haikou destroyer, salutes as he poses for the camera in Sanya, Hainan province December 25, 2008.

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In this photo released by China's Xinhua News Agency, Chinese Navy special force members wave on the deck of a warship in Sanya, a coastal city of South China's Hainan Province on Friday, Dec. 26, 2008.

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Sailors check the materials on the decks of a Chinese Navy's supply ship in Sanya, Hainan province December 25, 2008. The fleet - two destroyers and a supply ship - would have about 800 crew, including 70 special operations troops and will join in the multi-national patrolling of the Gulf of Aden and waters off the coast of Somalia, the official Xinhua news agency said. Picture taken December 25, 2008.

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Chinese navy's DDG-171 Haikou destroyer is seen in Sanya, Hainan province December 25, 2008.

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This would be a good time for the ships to visit the pakistan port. It would be a good halfway point and a good publicity stop.

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The news comes from Southern Daily, one of the most circulated newspaper in southern China.

I will just translate a little. The two foreign ports that will be resupplying the task force will be Karachi, Pakistan and Djibouti, Djibouti.

the rest of the article is more or less mumbo jumbo(waste disposal and accommendation for the crew such and such).

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when the boats will arrive in the Gulf of Aden