Ray Powell
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Indo-Pacific News - Geo-Politics & Defense Ray Powell A Chinese PLA spy/surveillance vessel got as close as 2 nautical miles to U.S. & Philippine ships drilling together in the South China Sea.
Indo-Pacific News - Geo-Politics & Defense A lot of Chinese naval activity in the South China Sea near/within Philippine territory, as 🇵🇭🇺🇸🇦🇺🇫🇷 conduct large-scale, live-fire military exercises. Follow Ray Powell for the latest:
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Updated map with some input from Indo-Pacific News - Geo-Politics & Defense:
🇨🇳 #China 's Dien Ke 1 Hao ship monitoring 🇵🇭🇺🇸🇫🇷Balikatan ships is 'able to conduct all kinds of tests for electronic devices such as radars, drones, unmanned boats and other equipment, as well as work in underwater sound and meteorological exploration'. en.sasac.gov.cn/2020/08/11/c_2…
2x Chinese PLA Navy spy ships are shadowing ongoing Balikatan exercises via Ray Powell. TaiwanPlus reported that one got as close as 2 nautical miles to U.S. & Philippine ships.
At least 5x PLAN surveillance/intel vessels (Japan MOD also identified Dongdiao hulls 791, 795,…
Thank you Ray Powell for another impromptu Q&A.
We appreciate your participation as always.
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🇨🇳 #China 's Dien Ke 1 Hao ship monitoring 🇵🇭🇺🇸🇫🇷Balikatan ships is 'able to conduct all kinds of tests for electronic devices such as radars, drones, unmanned boats and other equipment, as well as work in underwater sound and meteorological exploration'. en.sasac.gov.cn/2020/08/11/c_2…
A Chinese Navy Dongdiao (Type 815) class intelligence collection ship with pennant number 793 was monitored as ships part of BALIKATAN exercise operate in the West Philippine Sea. It is the same ship monitored near Australian waters in Talisman Sabre 2023
news.abs-cbn.com/news/2024/4/27…
#BALIKATAN2024 videos
The first-ever Multilateral Maritime Exercise (MME) between the Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) and the US #IndoPacific Command are underway in the #SouthChinaSea marking a significant step forward in regional cooperation.
🧵 At 0600, People’s Liberation Army Navy vessel 793 — a Chinese surveillance ship — began shadowing PH-US-FR vessels conducting #Balikatan2024 drills some 50 nautical miles from Taytay, Palawan.
Specs on the Tianwangxing (hull number 793), the PLA-N intelligence ship shadowing Balikatan in Rik Glauert's video below. It was originally hull 853 when launched in 2017 (as reported by Ankit Panda, thediplomat.com/2017/01/chines…). From Manfred Meyer's 'Modern Chinese Maritime Forces'.
🚨The 🇨🇳Chinese spy ship reported by Rik Glauert of TaiwanPlus News lurking around the 🇺🇸🇵🇭🇫🇷Balikatan exercise vessels near Palawan is the Dian Ke 1 Hao, called 'scientific research ship' according to Chinese sources (subsites.chinadaily.com.cn/hainan/2022-06…).
🚨🚨🚨(Update/correction here:…