Posted: 09/01/2012
The Chinese Peoples Liberation Army frigate Yi Yang transits through the Gulf of Aden before conducting a bilateral counterpiracy exercise with the guided-missile destroyer USS Winston S. Churchill in the Gulf of Aden, Sept. 17, 2012. The exercise focused on U.S. and Chinese naval cooperation in detecting, boarding, and searching suspected pirated vessels. U.S. Navy photo by Petty Officer 2nd Class Aaron Chase