A pair of Chinese navy warships have embarked on another Pacific operation, Japan says.
Japan dispatched a navy patrol plane to monitor a pair of Chinese warships as they approached its territory en route to the Pacific Ocean, its Defense Ministry said on Tuesday.Photographs captured by a P-1 maritime patrol aircraft scrambled from Kanoya, on Japan's southernmost main island of Kyushu, showed the gray hulls of the Chinese navy's Type 054A or Jiangkai II-class frigate the Changzhou and its Type 056 or Jiangdao-class corvette the Luan.
Japan's Joint Staff, which publishes regular reports of Russian and Chinese ship movements near its territory, said its forces first sighted the naval vessels Changzhou and Luan 25 miles south of the Kusagaki Islands. The pair sailed eastward through the Osumi Strait into the Pacific Ocean, it said.
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