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PLA Rocket Force 61st Base (Huangshan City, Anhui Province)

PLA Rocket Force61st Base of the People's Liberation Army Rocket Army, located in Huangshan City, Anhui Province, is the People's Liberation Army Rocket Force. The People's Liberation Army Rocket Army deployed at the 61st Base (formerly the Second Artillery ForceBase 52), mainly targeting Taiwan and Okinawa, equipped with short and medium-range campaign tactics ballistic missiles. The brigade has 7 missile brigades.

In August 1965, the headquarters of the 52nd Base of the Second Artillery Corps of the Chinese People's Liberation Army (headquarters unit 121) was stationed in Guangyang Town, Shitai County, Anhui Province, where it was responsible for the construction of missile positions. In June 1966, the 303 Project Command was formally established. On May 25, 1968, the Central Military Commission approved the change of the 303 Project Command to the 52nd Base of the Second Artillery Corps of the People's Liberation Army, located in the Nanjing Military Region of the People's Liberation Army. In 2016, in the deepening of national defense and military reform, it was changed to the 52nd base of the People's Liberation Army Rocket Army.

On April 18, 2017, Xi Jinping, General Secretary of the CPC Central Committee, State President, and Chairman of the Central Military Commission, received the chief officers of the newly adjusted 84 military units in the Bayi Building in Beijing, and issued instructions to each unit; members of the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee, Xu Qiliang, Vice Chairman of the Central Military Commission, read out the order and decision issued by Chairman Xi Jinping of the Central Military Commission on the adjustment and formation of military arms and units of the provincial military district system [3]. In this adjustment and formation of military units, based on the 52nd base of the People's Liberation Army Rocket Army, the 61st base of the People's Liberation Army Rocket Army was adjusted and formed.

807 BrigadeAnhui Shitai
811 BrigadeQimen, Anhui
815 BrigadeJiangxi Leping
817 brigadeFujian Yongan
819 BrigadeGuangdong Meizhou
821 BrigadeGanzhou, Jiangxi
823 BrigadeZhejiang Jinhua
Before deepening the national defense and military reform in 2016, the 52nd Base of the Second Artillery Corps of the People's Liberation Army under the jurisdiction of: 807th Brigade (equipped with Dongfeng-21 medium-range ballistic missiles ), 811th Brigade (equipped with Dongfeng-21 Middle Range ballistic missile ), 815th Brigade (equipped with Dongfeng-15C short-range ballistic missile ), 817th Brigade (equipped with Dongfeng-15A short-range ballistic missile ), 818th Brigade (equipped with Dongfeng-11A short-range ballistic missile ), The 189th Brigade (equipped with Changjian- 10A short-range cruise missiles ), the 820th Brigade (equipped with Dongfeng-11A short-range ballistic missiles), the 827th Brigade (equipped with Dongfeng-21C medium-range ballistic missiles ), The 827th Brigade (equipped with Dongfeng-11A short-range ballistic missile).

The 61st Base of the Rocket Army formed in 2017 had the following jurisdictions:

  1. 611th Brigade
  2. 612th Brigade
  3. 613th Brigade
  4. 614th Brigade
  5. 615th Brigade
  6. 616th Brigade
  7. 617th Brigade

"Jingqishen" confrontation training is really a nice name, but it's not easy to practice when you feel it up close. This is a newly explored training method for the Second Artillery "Conventional Missile First Brigade". The whole process requires soldiers to carry equipment (firearms, ammunition, water bottles, raincoats, shoulder bags, gas masks) for 5 kilometers off-road, and then the two carry a shoulder A log weighing 160 pounds walked through a trench with a 50-meter water depth and then a sandbag with a weight of 60 pounds per person. During the off-road process, the two companies formed a confrontation. In order to be the final winner, the soldiers united and helped each other, sweating like rain.

The main weapon of the 61st base of the Rocket Army in the Eastern Theater of the PLA is Dongfeng-21C, Dongfeng-16 missiles, Longsword-10 ground attack cruise missiles, and Dongfeng-15B and 15C missiles.

Dongfeng- 21C missiles-with a range of 1800 kilometers and a hit error of about 50 meters,Configure a variety of conventional warheads-group bullets, oil-gas warheads, mother-child warheads, electromagnetic pulse bombs,Anti-electromagnetic radiation warhead. There are 4 winglets on the outside of the warhead (similar to the US Pershing Type 2 missile),At the end of the flight, it can correct its flight path and fly to the target, which can hit southern Japan and Okinawa US military bases.

Dongfeng -16 missile-a ballistic missile that has been newly commissioned in recent years. Range 1000 to 1200Kilometers and hitting errors of up to 5 meters, comparable to cruise missiles, covering the "first island Chain", which can attack Okinawa in Japan, the Philippines, and Taiwan; especially Okinawa is worth noting. There are many US military bases in the area, which has been dubbed "Okinawa Express" by the mainland media.

Long Sword- 10 Ground Attack Cruise Missile-Range 1500 km-2500 km, with the characteristics of fast response, long range, high precision, etc., the CCP implements precise strikes on important targets"Surgical scalpel". Used to fight against US military bases in Japan and Okinawa and Taiwan.

Dongfeng- 15B and 15C missiles-range 600-900 km, equipped with conventional warheads, mainly used to attack Taiwan. Can accurately attack our command post, communication center, and military assemblyGround, missile forces, military frontier airports, air defense positions, as well as logistics facilities, stations and terminalsAnd traffic routes, etc., effectively destroying combat power and morale.

Rocket Force 61 Base 96151Hongxing Road, Yanghu Town, Tunxi District, Huangshan City, Anhui Province
807 Brigade 96161 Xinhe Town, Qingyang County, Chizhou City, Anhui Province DF21
811 Brigade 96163 Bayi Road, Leping City, Jingdezhen City, Jiangxi Province DF-21
815 Brigade 96165 Bantou Village, Shangrao County, Shangrao City, Jiangxi Province DF-15C
817 Brigade 96167 Sanming, Fujian Province Brigade DF-15A
818 Brigade 96169 Linggan Village, Yong'an City DF-11A
819 Brigade 96162 Yu road in Zhanggong District, Ganzhou City, Jiangxi ProvinceDF-10
820 Brigade 96164 Luodian Town, Jinhua City, Zhejiang ProvinceDF-11A
827 Brigade96166 Qujiang District, Shaoguan City, Guangdong ProvinceDF-21 C
Trial team 96166 Anhui Province
training Group 96171 Quzhou Jiangshan City, Osaka piedmont
technical service Group 96172Jingdezhen City, Jiangxi Province Zhushan La Lishan Road
equipment inspection Group 96173 Huangnitou Village, Zhushan District, Jingdezhen City, Jiangxi Province
Repair Group 96174Wucheng Intersection
Communication Group96175 Xiuning County, Huangshan City Group
No. 61 Missile Equipment Warehouse96176 Qiaoyang Road, Tunxi District, Huangshan City, Anhui Province



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