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2003 – explosion on board an overcrowded Ming-class diesel -powered submarine, Navy Submarine No. 361, killed 70. [1] [2] "The most startling thing about this episode is that [the government] issued a public report," noted Evan S. Medeiros, then a China specialist at the RAND Corporation. [1] The capacity of the submarine was for 57 men ...
2001. Greeneville in drydock at Pearl Harbor on 21 February 2001 after hitting and sinking Ehime Maru. On 9 February 2001, the American submarine USS Greeneville accidentally struck and sank a Japanese high-school fisheries training ship, Ehime-Maru, killing nine of the thirty-five people aboard, including four students, 10 miles (16 km) off ...
The Hainan Island incident was a ten-day international incident between the United States and the People’s Republic of China (PRC) that resulted from a mid-air collision between a United States Navy EP-3E ARIES II signals intelligence aircraft and a Chinese Air Force J-8II interceptor on April 1, 2001. The EP-3 was flying over the South China ...
A U.S. Navy nuclear submarine that was severely damaged in an accident while submerged in the disputed South China Sea last month struck an uncharted underwater mountain, the Navy said Monday ...
China's military said it had recently held intensive anti-submarine exercises in the strategically important South China Sea as part of efforts to hone its capabilities amid rising maritime ...
The photos and video were released in advance of a soon-to-be issued annual report by the Pentagon on the China’s military power and the security threats it may pose to partners in the Indo-Pacific.
The People's Liberation Army Navy Submarine Force (PLANSF) is the submarine service of the People's Liberation Army Navy. It consists of all types of submarines in operational service organized into three fleets: the North Sea Fleet, the East Sea Fleet, and the South Sea Fleet. Submarines have long been one of the three focuses of the People's ...
Taiwan detected 20 Chinese military planes and seven vessels around the island in the past 24 hours, Taiwan's defence ministry said in its daily report on Chinese military activities on Tuesday ...