Yuanwang-5, Yuanwang-6 and Yuanwang-7 are currently steaming towards undisclosed locations.
China and Russia have sent their most sophisticated spy ships to keep track of the USS Carl Vinson (CVN-70) and its escorting Carrier Strike Group as this U. S. Navy Nimitz-class aircraft carrier lingers off the eastern coast of North Korea in the Sea of Japan.
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American media citing U. S. Navy sources said both China and Russia appear bent on hounding the USS Carl Vinson even as tensions in the Korean Peninsula remain close to flash point owing to North Korea’s refusal to extinguish its nuclear weapons development program, and the United States’ declaration all options are open — including military — in the effort to eliminate the north’s nuclear program.
While media reports failed to identify the spy ships involved, it’s an incredible coincidence that all three of China’s most modern signals intelligence spy ships are now out at sea at the same time.
And as for the Russians, they have two spy ships attached to the Pacific Fleet based at Vladivostok in the Russian Far East.
The three most modern radar spy ships in the People’s Liberation Army Navy (PLAN) — all belonging to the Yuanwang class — left Chinese ports one after the other from March 27 to April 10 to allegedly keep track of the launch of a new Chinese spacecraft on April 20.
