Thai Navy's frigate Chao Phraya (FFG-455) arrives at a military port in Zhanjiang City in south China's Guangdong Province.
BEIJING, Mar. 26 -- The Thai naval taskforce participating in the China-Thailand Blue Strike-2025 joint naval training arrived at a military port in Zhanjiang City in south China's Guangdong Province on Tuesday morning.
The Chinese side held a welcoming ceremony at the dock. The two sides jointly stressed in their speeches that the joint naval training is a vital practice to implement the consensus between the two countries on strengthening cooperation, and will focus on testing the two navies' capabilities of carrying out joint defensive operations.
The China-Thailand Blue Strike-2025 joint naval training, as the sixth edition of this series, will take place in air spaces and sea areas near Zhanjiang City from late March to early April. The Thai side dispatched the landing platform dock ship Angthong (LPD-791), guided-missile frigates Kraburi (FFG-457) and Chao Phraya (FFG-455), and offshore patrol vessel Prachuap Khiri Khan (OPV-552) to take part in the joint training. The Chinese side formed a naval taskforce consisting of the guided-missile destroyer Kunming (Hull 172), the amphibious dock landing ship Qilianshan (Hull 985), guided-missile frigates Xuchang (Hull 536) and Tianmen (Hull 631), and the comprehensive submarine rescue ship Xiangyanghu (Hull 832), as well as shipborne helicopters and Marines Corps members.