China’s People’s Liberation Army Navy (PLAN) has deployed a Type 039A Yuan-class diesel-electric attack submarine (SSK) and a Type 926 submarine support ship to the Indian Ocean Region (IOR) earlier ...

The Type-039 class and derivatives are also known as the Yuan-class. The first of the class, the Type-039A, first made its appearance in a Chinese shipyard in 2006 and caught many naval experts by ...

Here’s what you need to remember: One potential application for a submarine with a “stealthy” sail could be special operation forces insertion and extraction when a submarine on the surface would be ...

Fishermen in eastern China were offered a rare glimpse of one of the country's newly upgraded submarines, which was captured on camera on Wednesday while heading out to sea for a suspected training ...

Correction: A previous version of this story misidentified the ship type of China’s Linyi, which is a frigate. ISLAMABAD — China and Pakistan on Friday wrapped up their largest bilateral naval ...

January 21, 2017: The Chinese Navy has apparently resumed building more of its version of the Russian Kilo class diesel-electric subs. Construction appeared have halted in in 2013. Then at the end of ...