CHINA-PLA: LARGE PLAAF TRANSPORT AIRCRAFT CARRY OUT TROOP TRANSPORT MISSSIONS IN SOUTH CHINA SEA ISLANDS
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China's Global Times (September 21) quoted a report released by the PLA South Sea Fleet in its social media account, which disclosed that in two recent, separate moves in the South China Sea, the People's Liberation Army (PLA) dispatched Y-20 large transport aircraft to reefs for troop transport missions, and conducted amphibious landing drills under complex conditions, showing the PLA's capabilities in safeguarding peace and stability in the region. It said several new-type transport aircraft of the PLA Air Force carrying veterans who were garrisoned at islands and reefs in the Nansha Islands in the South China Sea took off from airfields on Yongshu Reef, Zhubi Reef and Meiji Reef on September 16 and returned to the Chinese mainland.
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