{"id":39226,"date":"2024-07-26T20:21:00","date_gmt":"2024-07-26T18:21:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/marineforum.online\/?p=39226"},"modified":"2025-09-29T21:05:31","modified_gmt":"2025-09-29T19:05:31","slug":"chinese-task-force-in-the-baltic-sea","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/marineforum.online\/en\/chinesische-einsatzgruppe-in-der-ostsee\/","title":{"rendered":"Chinese task force in the Baltic Sea"},"content":{"rendered":"

On 20 July 2024, two units of the Chinese People's Liberation Army Navy (PLAN), the destroyer \"Jiaozuo\" (type 052D, hull number 163) and the battle group supply ship \"Honghu\" (type 093A, hull number 906), entered the Baltic Sea on their way to Saint Petersburg and passed through the Danish Straits.<\/p>\n

\"Chinese
Chinese destroyer Type 052D \"Jiaozuo\". Photo: Michael Nitz<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Destroyer<\/h4>\n

The 7,500-tonne destroyer \"Jiaozuo\", which was built at the Jiangnan shipyard in Changxingdao and will not enter service until 2022, is - together with its sister ship \"Lushui\" - the latest ship in the Luyang class, according to the Janes Fighting Ships fleet manual. The PLAN is already deploying 25 units of this type in three variants, while a further seven ships of the latest batch 052D have been ordered from Chinese shipyards or are currently under construction.<\/p>\n

Provider<\/h4>\n

The 178.5 metre long and 23,000 tonne displacement Fuchi-class battle group supply ship \"Honghu\" is comparable in size to a task force supply ship of the German Navy. The unit was commissioned in 2016 and, like the \"Jiaozuo\", is assigned to the PLAN's South Sea Fleet.<\/p>\n

\"Chinese
Chinese battle group supply ship \"Honghu\". Photo: Michael Nitz<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Lead time<\/h4>\n

Prior to the transfer to the Baltic Sea, both ships made a five-day supply stop in Casablanca (Morocco) from 10 to 15 July 2024. The two units are part of the PLAN's 46th Naval Escort Task Force, which patrols the Arabian Sea and the Gulf of Aden. The task force left the naval port of Zhanjiang in the southern province of Guangzhou on 21 February.<\/p>\n

Saint Petersburg<\/h4>\n

The deployment of the two modern PLAN units to the Russian Navy's birthday celebrations in St. Petersburg on 28 July 2024 can be seen as a sign of Beijing's solidarity with Moscow. With the unexpected redeployment of the larger units of the Russian Northern Fleet, these two ships are likely to be the \"thickest lumps\" in the roadstead of St Petersburg in 2024. Despite the slimmed-down parade, India will also be present alongside China with the Talwar-class frigate \"Tabar\" (125 metres, 4,000 tonnes) and Algeria with the training ship \"La Soumman\".<\/p>\n

\"German
German Coast Guard Potsdam class: Bad D\u00fcben (sister ship of the \"Bamberg\"). Photo: Michael Nitz<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Accompaniment<\/strong><\/h4>\n

As usual, the two visitors were accompanied by patrol boats from the Royal Danish Navy from the moment they entered the Baltic Sea at Skagen. After passing through the Langeland Belt and into the Pomeranian Bay, the German Federal Police Sea Unit deployed one of its newest units, the \"Bamberg\", to monitor the passage of the Chinese duo from the Fehmarn Belt through the Bay of Mecklenburg and the Kadet Channel.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Am 20. Juli 2024 liefen zwei Einheiten der chinesischen People\u2019s Liberation Army Navy (PLAN), der Zerst\u00f6rer \u201eJiaozuo\u201c (Type 052D, Hull-Nummer 163) und der Kampfgruppenversorger \u201eHonghu\u201c (Type 093A, Hull-Nummer 906), auf ihrem Weg nach Sankt Petersburg in die Ostsee ein und passierten die D\u00e4nischen Meerengen. Zerst\u00f6rer Der auf der Jiangnan Werft in Changxingdao gebaute und erst […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":39234,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_oasis_is_in_workflow":0,"_oasis_original":0,"_oasis_task_priority":"2normal","footnotes":""},"categories":[45,486,42,50],"tags":[7765,96,5725,3898,2219,4125,196,5030,3802,2808,936],"class_list":["post-39226","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-marinen-aus-aller-welt-news","category-headlines","category-news","category-sicherheitspolitik-news","tag-bamberg","tag-china","tag-flottenbesuch","tag-flottenparade","tag-marinegeburtstag","tag-marineparade","tag-ostsee","tag-plan","tag-sankt-petersburg","tag-versorger","tag-zerstoerer"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/marineforum.online\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39226","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/marineforum.online\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/marineforum.online\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marineforum.online\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marineforum.online\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=39226"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/marineforum.online\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39226\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":49580,"href":"https:\/\/marineforum.online\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39226\/revisions\/49580"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marineforum.online\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/39234"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/marineforum.online\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39226"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marineforum.online\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39226"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marineforum.online\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39226"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}