A missile speedboat fleet of China's Southern Theater Command recently conducted live-fire drills in unfamiliar waters, aiming to enhance its capacity for carrying out diverse military tasks.
The training subjects included naval gun firing, air and missile defense, as well as smoke releasing, against imaginary enemies.
As soon as the missile speedboat formation arrived at the exercise sea area, the radar reported "unknown air targets" approaching to the fleet at high speed. The warships immediately sounded the battle alarms and quickly formed an air defense formation to launch artillery counterattacks.
After the "enemy" situation in the air was lifted, the fleet received the notification of the presence of "enemy" armed reconnaissance ships in the sailing waters. Then all the missile boats quickly adjusted the course and speed, and maneuvered to the mission area, where they carried out a comprehensive fire strike against the targets and successfully "sunk" the "enemy ships."
During the three-day maritime exercise, the missile speedboat formation sounded sirens many times, and quickly switched between and randomly combined the training subjects, which has further strengthened the boat commanders' ability to use weapons and the soldiers' emergency response and effectively improved the capacity of single boat and the whole fleet to fulfill various military missions.
"For this exercise, we closely followed the requirements of the missions and tasks and carried out real-combat drills in 'back-to-back' confrontation. In the exercise, we adopted the mode of giving information about the 'enemy' at the last moment, so as to further test and develop the capacity of weapon use and emergency response of the servicemen," said Li Shuai, a soldier of the missile speedboat brigade.
Chinese missile speedboats conduct live-fire drills
