April 28, 2025

The Type 22, a class of fast, agile, stealthy and powerful missile boat of the Chinese People's Liberation Army (PLA) Navy, has been carrying out diversified missions, including foreign warship interception and rights protection in the South China Sea, a latest official media report revealed. This showed that the Type 22 missile boat, despite having being built some 20 years ago, continues to play meaningful roles thanks to its unique capabilities, an expert said on Monday. 

In recent years, the Type 22 missile boat has begun to be tasked with more diversified missions such as littoral patrols, escorting, tracking and monitoring, as well as collaborating with coast guard ships in safeguarding China's maritime rights and interests in the South China Sea, the military channel of China Central Television (CCTV) reported on Sunday.

According to the report, during an unspecified training mission, the Type 22 missile boat commanded by Yang Wu from the navy of the PLA Eastern Theater Command, received a sudden order to intercept a foreign warship intruding into Chinese waters at an undisclosed maritime region.

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