A ZBD-86B infantry fighting vehicle (IFV) pulls out of a LACA during a beach landing training exercise on May 14, 2016. A landing ship flotilla with the South China Sea Fleet of the PLA Navy has been engaged in beach landing training in an undisclosed sea area of the South China Sea for several days in mid-May, 2016. The training highlighted the coordination between the crew of Landing Craft Air Cushion (LACA) and the troops of armored units in the loading and unloading of armored hardware. (81.cn/Xu Miaobo)
BEIJING, May 19 (ChinaMil) -- The 31st
Combined Corps of the Chinese People’s Liberation Army (PLA) conducted
3D landing and assault drills in a sea area in south east China with the
troops mixed into composite battalions.
The composite battalion is the basic
combat strength module of the PLA Army. In accordance with operational
capability and mission requirements, troops from more than 10 kinds of
arms including infantry, armored force, artillery force, special
operations force, army aviation force and electronic warfare force were
grouped into composite battalions undertaking different tasks such as
target seize and control, fire assault and sabotage operations. These
combat modules are more flexible, adaptive and greater assault strength.
Chen Xiaoming, commander of a regiment,
the 31st Combined Corps, said that in the exercise, operations of
composite battalions were conducted with support of the joint operations
system. The purpose of the drill is to comprehensively test and enhance
the combat capabilities of the troops in mobile and three-dimensional
offensive and defensive operations
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