The original Type 054 pair heads out.

The deployment of FFG-525 and FFG-526 marks the first time members of the third Flotilla, East Sea Fleet are being deployed to the Gulf of Aden.The third flotilla is modern by PLAN standards staffed with the imported Russian Sovremenny class DDG and the domestic Type 054 and Type 054A FFG. It made news last November when the DDG138 and FFG 525 passed through the Japanese Tsugaru Strait on their