China’s ‘Sea Phantom’ Fleet Prowls the Open Waters
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China’s ‘Sea Phantom’ Fleet Prowls the Open Waters
Not long before the destroyer USS Curtis Wilbur recently conducted freedom of navigation operations (FONOPS) off the Chinese-occupied Paracel Islands, an interesting maritime exercise took place in waters off southern mainland China. The images released in the public domain are interesting to note; many of the ships have hull numbers that carry the prefix 湛渔, […]