Chinese, Russian troops conduct maritime blockade drill

[AngryAmish]

This is from the People's Liberation Daily, the Chinese Army's newspaper.



"Chinese and Russian troops participating in a joint military exercise carried out a maritime blockade drill in the sea area to the southeast of the Shandong Peninsula Tuesday.

�@�@A few minutes after 11:00 a.m., Chinese battle planes provided air-cover for a formation of Chinese and Russian warships, and then a Chinese and Russian air force anechelon fought a fierce battle with enemy fighters in the air.

�@�@Chinese fighters blocked enemy battle planes with air-to-air missiles and took the air domination above the sea area. Meanwhile, the joint naval formation sank enemy submarines with deck-landing anti-submarine helicopters and depth bombs.

�@�@At 11:20, Chinese and Russian early warning planes and patrol planes guided the joint fleet to attack and destroy enemy warships. A Russian destroyer launched precision attacks on enemy targets, while Chinese warships fired missiles to destroy the enemy targets, using data and information transmitted by the patrol planes."



It seems that they are practicing for a time when they will attempt to blockade Taiwan. Most likely bluster but it sends a very interesting message to Tiawan and her allies.