Air-sea-land military drill held in northeast China
24/9/2008 17:36
A unit of China's People's Liberation Army (PLA) held a military exercise
lasting several days in which it tested the synergistic command and battle
capabilities of the navy, army and air force, the PLA Daily reported
today.
The newspaper said the drill, which ended yesterday, was organized by
the Jinan Military Area Command and involved more than 10 squadrons from the
three forces garrisoned in the command. The drill was also the first
cross-regional exercise, which spanned an area from the Shandong Peninsula to
Liaodong Peninsula.
The newspaper didn't say how many days the exercise
lasted.
Land-land, land-air, air-sea, air-air and electromagnetic
confrontations were designed for the drill, and missile destroyer, frigate and
fighter aircraft were all involved.
Maj.-Gen. Ma Yiming, chief director of
the drill, said the exercise was intended mainly to explore how to improve,
under current circumstances, the forces' synergistic abilities in data
collection, command and control, firepower, electronic confrontation and
logistics.
Dubbed "Joint-2008", the exercise would build up data and
experience for the various armed forces' coordination and personnel training,
military experts were cited by the report as saying.
Xinhua
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