(VOVworld) – China conducted live-fire air and sea exercises in the East China Sea on Thursday for the third time in the last two months.

An air-defense missile is launched from a Chinese missile frigate “Changzhou” during a fire drill in the East China Sea, August 27, 2015 (Photo: Xinhua)

Similar military exercises were held in the Yellow Sea and the East Sea. According to the Chinese Navy, the drills involved more than 100 ships, dozens of aircraft, and missile launchers of the Chinese Donghai, Beihai, and Nanhai fleets and the Chinese Air Force.