⚓️🌊Spotted! The French vessels 🇫🇷 the POM Teriieroo a Teriierooiterai (P780) and the Tranape (P782), the BSAOM Bougainville (A622), and the Cook ship MSU Te Kukupa II 🇨🇰 left Papeete harbour yesterday morning for #MARARA26. The FS Prairial (F731) 🇫🇷 also sailed the day before.
🇨🇳⚓️Remember the Liaoning? It conducted 170 sorties in 3 days in the Philippine Sea, according to the JDMSF, shortly after the USS George Washington 🇺🇸(CVN-73) operated in the area. Its deployment with a Jianghai III-class frigate's first mission, underscored 🇨🇳's expanding role.
🇹🇼⚓️Do you remember the Hai-Kun submarine?
After facing difficulties, it departed from Kaohsiung port on Monday where it conducted its latest round of sea trials. If the tests are successful, the delivery could take place between July and September.
#IndoPacific#Submarines
Taiwan’s indigenous submarine Hai Kun (Narwhal) conducted its 15th sea trial on June 1, including its 9th submerged-navigation test. According to CNA, upcoming evaluations will include seaworthiness and deep-diving trials, among the most significant remaining milestones before delivery to the ROC Navy.
Shipbuilder CSBC previously indicated it hopes to deliver Hai Kun in June, though military experts cited by CNA assess successful completion of the remaining tests could place delivery between July and September.
🇫🇷⚓️Spotted !
The French #navy POM Jean Tranape (P782) is currently in #Papeete, French Polynesia, coming from Brest, crossing the #Pacific. Its final destination is Nouméa, joining the first ship of this class, the POM Auguste Bénébig.
@WarshipCam@NavyRecognition@xaviervav
This year, Marara 2026 will take place in Tahiti, Makemo and Hao. French Polynesia 🇵🇫 is as big as Europe, making it a true logistic challenge for France 🇫🇷 and its Pacific partners 🌏 to respond as quickly as possible to natural disasters!
#MARARA26#HADR#Pacific#FAPF
With Trump's visit 🇺🇸in Beijing, Hegseth stresses the constructive strategic stability with 🇨🇳& did not mentioned #Taiwan, while he warned an imminent Chinese invasion of 🇹🇼 last year. @ASEAN is in an uncomfortable position and are on high alert about US abandonment/entrapment.
While Hegseth 🇺🇸 advocates for the rise of military power and defense spending, Tô Lâm🇻🇳highlights the respect of the rules based order to maintain peace and stability to the 3 challenges: erosion of international rules + law ⚖️, crisis of development models & crisis of trust.
🇨🇦⚓️Canadian frigate HMCS Charlottetown (FFH 339) transited by #TaiwanStrait 🇹🇼. The last time it was a 🇨🇦 destroyer HMCS Ville de Québec (FFH 332) the 5th of sept, 2025.
🇨🇦 is usually passing twice a year in the 🇹🇼 strait. Will they do it again in 2026 ?
NEW: According to The Globe and Mail, the Canadian Halifax-class frigate HMCS Charlottetown (FFH 339) transited the Taiwan Strait from May 22–23.
This marks Canada’s first reported Taiwan Strait transit of 2026, following the most recent transit of HMCS Ville de Quebec (FFH 332) in September 2025.
Let's further dive into the history of #MARARA26 exercise!
The French Armed forces organise an annual cooperation exercise with their regional partners rotating between the #FAPF (Marara even numbered years) and the #FANC (#CroixduSud in odd numbered years).
#HADR#Pacific#CIS
Marara means "flying fish" in Tahitian, is a multinational exercise between France and its partners to plan and conduct humanitarian assistance and disaster relief (#HADR) operations following a natural disaster in a #Pacific island country.
#NaturalDisaster#MARARA26#marara26
The 🇨🇳 Ekranoplan, also known as the Bohai Sea Monster, has been found in Nanshan harbour. Despite being a prototype, it shows the presence of underwing weapons, which will be probably used in the #SouthChinaSea for amphibious operations, able to fly below most radar horizons.
China's military says it drove off Dutch frigate in South China Sea - Reuters https://t.co/4tkCtsase1
PLA activity in the SCS reached a record high in 2025, with 163 operations and a rise in live‑fire events. More in our #ChinaPower feature: https://t.co/uveZwxFLvj
🇨🇦 also signed the #ICE Pact with the #US and #Finland in July 2024 to enhance ice-breaker ship production capacity and to counter Russian and Chinese influence in the Artic. Canadian future fleet is supposed to operate across 3 theaters in the #Artic, #IndoPacific and #Atlantic.
🇰🇷The #ROK Navy's KSS-III submarine Dosan Ahn Changho arrived at Canadian Forces Base Esquimalt in Victoria, British Columbia 🇨🇦, where it will take part in a naval cooperation with the RCN 🤝 but also as part of a campaign to win a multi-billion dollar deal 💵.
#RCN is planning to procure 12 submarines where 🇰🇷 and 🇩🇪 are both on its shortlist, waiting for 🇨🇦's announcement at the end of this June. #Canada is not only diversifying its partnerships but is also accelerating its naval expansion 🚢 by increasing its number in submarines.
If you want to know more about this Japanese decision :
🔗 https://t.co/PMiUEaBwFH
🔗 https://t.co/x1Js91fjOM
🔗 https://t.co/cxrpbnH2j9
🔗 https://t.co/0M00MpyxEG
@AsiaMTI@angkasareview
The #drone could be 🇺🇸MQ-9B SeaGuardian, range of action of 4,900 km.
➡️ Launched from Chichijima Island, it could fly close to Tibet or 🇧🇹; covering the entirety of 🇨🇳 territory.
Even if such mission is highly unlikely, #Japan 🇯🇵 would be able to check the #SouthChinaSea.