Sino-Russian drill tests navies' mettle

Chinese and Russian military join forces for a group photo, August 25, 2015. [Photo/Xinhua]

The Chinese navy completed its first overseas joint beach landing drill as part of an ongoing marine exercise with Russia on Tuesday. The exercise, in waters off Russia’s Clerk Cape, was part of the ongoing Joint Sea-2015 (II).

The navies deployed amphibious equipment and more than 400 marines who landed on a beach by various methods, including parachuting and descending by rope from helicopters, as well as using amphibious armored vehicles and landing craft.