Tuesday, June 30, 2015

Chinese submarine crosses Arabian Sea and docks at Karachi port


This may come as a shock to many but a Chinese submarine had crossed the Arabian Sea, docked at Karachi port for a week, and returned to Beijing even as Prime Minister Narendra Modi was on his visit to China.
This has been reported in indiatoday.intoday.in dated 27 June 2015.
It was China's Yuan Class 335 submarine, it entered Karachi port on May 22 with a crew of at least 65. The sub and crew spent at least a week in Karachi, refueled, and replenished stocks before returning to China.
The incident happened within a week of Prime Minister Narendra Modi wrapping up his Beijing trip.
This Yuan 335 submarine is believed to be China's deadliest conventional submarine and it had left its base at Hainan Island in the South China Sea on 31st March. The sub is equipped with torpedoes, anti-ship missiles and an air-independent propulsion that improves its underwater endurance.
After leaving China, it entered the Gulf of Aden over a fortnight later but Karachi was its first port of call and, that has caught the South Block unawares. This action of Beijing could be the first step for selling subs to Pakistan by China. Apparently, there are plans to sell some eight Yuan class submarines to Pakistan within the next few years.
(Image courtesy wikimediacommons.org)

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