Chinese rescue submersible attaches to foreign submarine during exercise

摘要

The second phase of the 'Joint Sea 2017' Sino-Russian exercise conducted the first underwater mating of a People's Liberation Army Navy (PLAN) rescue vehicle with a submarine from a foreign navy. During the exercise, which took place from 18 to 22 September in the Sea of Okhotsk and followed preparatory briefings in the Russian Naval base in Vladivostok, the PLAN'S LR7 rescue submersible attached itself underwater to a Russian submarine simulating a disabled boat on the sea bed, according to Chinese news reports.