In a remarkable act of long-range maritime snooping, Navy's reconnaissance aircraft and spy drones detected, tracked and photographed a spanking new Chinese destroyer and a tanker traversing through the Indian Ocean region this weekend.
Sources said the newly-commissioned Sovremenny class destroyer, built for the People's Liberation Army (Navy) at Russia's St Petersburg-based North Shipyard, was "picked up" as soon as it entered the Arabian Sea from the Red Sea.
A Tupolev-142M long-range maritime patrol aircraft, flying from the Goa naval airbase, spotted the Chinese destroyer and the accompanying tanker off Yemen's Socotra Island, located east of the Gulf of Aden, almost 2,300 km away from the Indian mainland.
"The TU-142M, with its long-range cameras, photographed the destroyer carrying out underway replenishment or refuelling from the tanker," said sources.
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