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Chinese ship Xun 701

Chinese naval auxiliary ship

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionDec 22, 2025
Entity authorityQ23003285 ↗
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Xun 701 was an auxiliary ship of China's People's Liberation Army Navy (PLAN). It was the PLAN's first weapon trials ship and the sole member of the Yanxi class. The ship was built in Shanghai from 1978 to 1980. It may have originally been intended to be a oceanographic research ship; the ship resembled the Xiang Yang Hong 02-series oceanographic research ships.

Xun 701 supported Soviet P-15 Termit missile launch and recovery during tests.

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Editorial reviewA concise reference frame for defining the subject, testing terminology and identifying the institution closest to the evidence. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1978, 1980—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. For this dossier, Chinese, ship and naval is the immediate research focus.
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This entry incorporates text from “Chinese ship Xun 701” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.