China celebrated the 70th anniversary of the founding of the People’s Liberation Army Navy (PLAN) on 23 April. On the occasion, it organised an international fleet review at Qingdao, which was also attended by the Indian Navy’s lead ship INS Kolkata and the tanker INS Shakti.
As The Economist wrote about the event, the PLAN has come a long way from its days as a brown-water navy (riverine warfare) to a green-water navy (which can operate in its own region), and is now on its way to fulfilling its goal of becoming a blue-water navy, which can operate anywhere in the world.
In the last two decades, the PLAN has modernised rapidly. Today’s PLAN is a modern force with at least one foreign base in Djibouti, and is well on its way to becoming a submarine superpower. ThePrint takes a closer look at China’s naval submarine training infrastructure through commercial satellite imagerRead More…
