Joint Russian, Chinese and South African Naval Exercises

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Interesting naval activity in South Atlantic planned for February.

Second joint Russian, Chinese and South African Naval exercises to be held off the Cape. (First held Nov 2019).

South Africa’s east coast between Durban and Richards Bay is set to be a hive of naval activity for 10 days in February when warships from the Russian Federation Navy (RFN) and China’s People’s Liberation Army Navy (PLAN) exercise with a single SA Navy (SAN) platform.

The exercise carries the same name as the first involving three BRICS (Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa) countries – Mosi (smoke) –held in South African territorial waters between the Cape of Good Hope and Cape Columbine in November 2019.

See - https://www.defenceweb.co.za/featured/a ... x-mosi-ll/

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Russian frigate RFS Admiral Gorshkov docks in Cape Town, South Africa
Note V on funnel, see - https://twitter.com/MrFrantarelli/statu ... 38/photo/1
And - https://twitter.com/MrFrantarelli/statu ... 5616459777