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People's Liberation Navy - Costal Defense Forces- Training

The PLAN's coastal defense forces conduct fourtypes of training as follows:

• Technical specialty training
• Firing training
• Tactics training
• Common training subjects

Technical specialty training

Technical specialty training focuses on providing individuals with the knowledge and skills for their technical specialty. The different types of technical specialty training include knowledge of theory, as well as the capabilities, structure, principles, operation, and management of weapons and equipment, technical equipment, and other relevant systems.

Firing training

Firing training involves the combat use of weapon systems either singly or by an entire company. This training includes the principles, operation, and command of firing guns or launching missiles at moving maritime targets.

Tactics training

Tactics training focuses on tactics theory, principles, and combat methods. This training includes single-branch and combined-arms tactics training.

Single-branch tactics training consists of artillery and missile tactics, plus combat principles, command, and support. It also includes defending one's firing or launch site and conducting mobile combat. Combined-arms tactics training consists of combined-arms principles, coordination between artillery and missiles, and coordinated combat with the surface forces and Naval Aviation.

Common training subjects

Common training subjects include common naval education, as well as camouflage, concealment, and defense against winds and floods.

The PLAN divides its coastal defense forces training into the following three phases:

• Personnel Training
• Technical and Tactics Basic Training
• Combined-Arms Training Events

Personnel Training

Officers receive their basic training at a PLAN academy. Enlisted personnel receive their technical training at an academy or a training base. Their training consists of studying basic knowledge, specialty theory, and the basic control and command of weapon systems and equipment.

Technical and Tactics Basic Training

Once the officers and enlisted personnel are assigned to their permanent unit, they conduct individual training, as well as unit training at the company and battalion levels. This training includes deployment, management, specialty skills, and firing or launching their weapon systems, as well as concealing, defending, and supporting everything at their launch or firing site.

Combined-Arms Training Events

Once the companies and battalions have completed their basic technical and tactics training phase, regiment and above organizations organize larger coordinated training events.The training gradually moves from artillery and missile battalions coordinating together, to having several missile battalions coordinating together. From here, they begin conducting larger coordinated training events in a campaign- or tactical-level exercise with the surface forces and Naval Aviation under the leadership of a support base.