Media Room | Reports and Publications | Careers and Recruiting | Industry and Contracts | Other Defence Links

Image Gallery: September 2010

24 September 2010
HMAS Warramunga in China

The Australian Naval Frigate HMAS Warramunga is visiting China to participate is a series of activities as part of a week long exercise.

A unique opportunity will be a Live Fire exercise, which has never conducted with a western ship before, where both ships will fire at targets whilst off the Shandon peninsular.

Officers and junior ranks from both the Australians and the PLA-N will visit each others ships and work alongside their national crews.

Additional activities will include a Communications Exercise as well as each ships helicopter landing on the other ship.

HMAS Warramunga will spend several days alongside and exercising in the the southern port city of Qingdoa before transiting to Zhanjiang and then home to HMAS Stirling in Western Australia.