Any info on how many helos the task force is packing? The destroyers can house one apiece, and I think the supply ship also has a hanger, but the quest is, is it making use of it?

From the looks of the numbers and equipment, it would seem that the PLAN plan to deploy SF teams with heavy weapons on some merchant ships as they enter the danger zone to provide maximum coverage, while the helos would act as a rapid response force, with the destroyers and their embarked patrol craft doing a circuit patrol.

Two Ka-28 are deployed with the task force. I wouldn’t be surprised if both Helo’s will drop in to the supply ship to refuel.