{"id":15826,"date":"2017-08-26T14:49:08","date_gmt":"2017-08-26T09:49:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tns.world\/?p=15826"},"modified":"2017-08-26T14:49:08","modified_gmt":"2017-08-26T09:49:08","slug":"chinese-naval-fleets-live-fire-drill-in-indian-ocean","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tns.world\/?p=15826","title":{"rendered":"Chinese naval fleet\u2019s live-fire drill in Indian Ocean"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>BEIJING, Aug 26 (TNS):<\/strong> A Chinese naval formation consisting of the destroyer Changchun, guided-missile frigate Jingzhou and supply vessel Chaohu conducted a live-fire drill in the waters of the western Indian Ocean, military sources said.<\/p>\n<p>The fleet carried out strikes against &#8220;enemy&#8221; surface ships and completed transverse replenishment of fuel and drinking water during an exercise that lasted for several days, Chinese news agency Xinhua reported.<\/p>\n<p>The drill is aimed at improving the ships&#8217; performance under real combat circumstances, said Chen Denan, chief of staff of the Chinese fleet.<\/p>\n<p>The fleet is on a half-year friendship visit to Asia, Europe, Africa and Oceania and has conducted joint exercises with foreign navies from 10 countries since it started its voyage on April 23.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BEIJING, Aug 26 (TNS): A Chinese naval formation consisting of the destroyer Changchun, guided-missile frigate Jingzhou and supply vessel Chaohu conducted a live-fire drill in the waters of the western Indian Ocean, military sources said. The fleet carried out strikes against &#8220;enemy&#8221; surface ships and completed transverse replenishment of fuel and drinking water during an [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":15829,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[271,19],"tags":[273,108,733],"class_list":["post-15826","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-beijing","category-world","tag-beijing","tag-tns","tag-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15826","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15826"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15826\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15830,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15826\/revisions\/15830"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/15829"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15826"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15826"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15826"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}