China-Pakistan naval exercise enhances ability to jointly deal with maritime security threats: Wu Qian.

BEIJING -- A Chinese Defense Ministry Spokesperson said that the recently concluded China-Pakistan joint naval exercise off Shanghai had consolidated the traditional friendship between the two countries and the two militaries, and enhanced the ability of the two navies to jointly deal with maritime security threats.

The China-Pakistan joint maritime exercise "Sea Guardians-2" was held from July 10 to 13 in the sea and airspace near Shanghai.

"This joint exercise has consolidated the traditional friendship between the two countries and the two militaries, and enhanced the ability of the two navies to jointly deal with maritime security threats," Senior Col Wu Qian said during his monthly briefing.

The spokesperson said that the two sides dispatched surface ships, submarines, aviation and other arms forces in a joint exercise under complex conditions.

He said that to strengthen the actual combat confrontation, all subjects had fully constructed the actual combat background, focusing on joint tactical maneuvering, joint sea strike, joint anti-submarine, joint air and anti-missile defense, etc. under the conditions of formation attack and defense, which tempered the actual combat capabilities of the troops of both sides.

Col Wu Qian said the two sides had close and efficient coordination of formation tactics and added, during the exercise, the two sides shared a high degree of sharing and cooperated closely, reasonably allocated tasks according to the battlefield situation, gave full play to the technical and tactical performance of different ships, and...

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