PLA three services in actual-combat assessment

The troops get ready to set out. (Photo by Liu Feng an)

For days in a row, a pontoon-bridge brigade under the Nanjing Military Area Command MAC of the Chinese People s Liberation Army PLA , a destroyer flotilla and a submarine flotilla of the PLA Navy, an aviation division and a ground-to-air missile brigade of the PLA Air Force, and a brigade of the PLA Second Artillery Force organized actual-troop and live-ammunition drills respectively in the sea areas of the Bohai Sea and the East China Sea, at an airport beyond the Great Wall, in a military base in Northwest China, and on the tributaries of the Yangtze River, so as to receive the grading assessment for annual training from the military training assessment team of the PLA General Staff Headquarters.

The year-end assessment is an important platform to test the training quality, combat capability, training effectiveness and training style of the PLA troops.

The actual-combat assessment was carried out in full swing and the actual-troop, actual-equipment and live-ammunition drills culminated in different places ranging from land to air, from surface to underwater, from snowfield to Gobi desert, and from air to deep sea.

In the whole process of the assessment, relevant troop units had totally organized 10 actual-troop and live-ammunition drills and exercises, 6 of which were conducted by the PLA Navy, the Air Force, and the Second Artillery Force under close-to-real-war background.

By Liu Feng an