US Navy – What exactly was the EP-3 monitoring? The Chinese military buildup in the South China Sea, which China claims, along with all the islands within it. China has increasingly protested such monitoring???

• Jane’s: Matters behind the mission: the background to the EP-3 affair
  

• Washington Post: Anger Over Flights Grew In Past Year

Russian Navy – The destroyer Bespokoiny of the Baltic Fleet will represent Russia in the international naval exercise Baltops-2001 which is organized by NATO’s Partnership for Peace.

• Itar Tass: Russian Baltic Fleet ship to take part in PfP manoeuvres
  

French Navy – The navies of France and Quatar are conducting exercise Gulf-Falcon-6 in the Persian Gulf.

• Middle East Newsline: France, Quatar launch naval portion of exercise