Flotilla conducts combat drills

A three-ship flotilla with China's South China Sea fleet has conducted combat drills and patrols off the Xisha Islands, as part of its annual offshore training in the South China Sea, the West Pacific Ocean and the East Indian Ocean.

The flotilla left a military port in South China's Hainan Province on Monday, equipped with amphibious landing craft the Changbaishan and the destroyers Wuhan and Haikou.

An advanced weapon system is equipped on the Changbaishan, China's largest landing ship by gross tonnage. Both destroyers have been through major drills.

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