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People's Liberation Navy - Submarine Force Training

Common Training Subjects

All officers and enlisted crew members mustpass a specified set of common training subjects to meet their basic training requirements, which includes:

• Common military regulations
• Damage control
• Light weapons
• Physical training and swimming
• Regulations for routine support for submarines
• Seamanship
• Shallow diving and underwater escapefrom danger
• Submarine organization and deployment
• Submarine structure
• Three defenses training (i.e., chemical,biological, and nuclear)
• Vessel regulations

In addition to the basic training subjects noted above, each type of organization and submarine has its own individual and group training subjects.

Technical Specialty Training

Technical specialty training consists of theitems individual officers and enlisted sailors need to carry out their own duties. The different types of technical specialty training include:

• Chemical defense
• Command-and-control systems
• Communications
• Electro-mechanical
• Electronic countermeasures
• Health
• Missiles
• Navigation
• Radar
• Sails and ropes7
• Sonar
• Underwater weapons

The content for technical specialty training deals specifically with:

• Capabilities
• Employment methods during combat
• Maintenance and care
• Management
• Organization and command of specialties
• Principles
• Rules and regulations
• Safety measures
• Specialized theoretical knowledge
• Training methods
• Weapons and equipment structures

Tactics Training

Tactics training consists of the principles and methods for maritime combat and is given to command personnel of all levels, as well as task-force headquarters and units. Combat training includes:

• Single-vessel tactics training
• Vessel group tactics training
• Combined-arms tactics training during coordinated operations with other PLAN branches

The content for tactics training consists of the following:

• Theory, principles, and combat methods
• Mobility methods and weapons employment
• Organization and command
• Coordination activities and battle support
• Knowledge about all services and branches
• Case studies of battles
• Maritime military geography
• Naval organizational structure, equipment, and special combat characteristics for naval opponents