The Chinese Ministry of National Defense announced on Saturday (July 15) that the Russian army will send Haikong forces to participate in the "Northern · Union -2023" exercise organized by the Northern War Zone of China in the central sea of Japan in the near future.
According to the news released by the Ministry of National Defense, the subject of the exercise is "Maintaining the Security of Maritime Strategic Channel", which aims to improve the level of strategic cooperation between China and Russia, strengthen the peaceful stability of regional maintenance, cope with various security,Challenge ability.
According to CCTV military reports, the Chinese maritime formation participating in the "North · United-20123" exercise was launched from a military port in Qingdao on Saturday morning, and went to the scheduled waters to perform exercise tasks.
This time the Chinese maritime formation is composed of missile destroyers Qiqihar, Guiyang ship, missile frigate Zaozhuang ship, Rizhao ship, and comprehensive supply ship Taihu Lake ship.There are many major tasks.After the formation arrives at the predetermined waters, it will participate in joint military exercises with Russia.
The Russian military will not be mentioned in the report that the Russian military will dispatch the models and fighter models.
According to Global Network reports, the exercise was organized by the Northern theater of the PLA, and the military force of the PLA in the "Western · United-201" exercise was composed of the western theater.Military experts believe that in the future, the five -major war zone may take turns to organize annual strategic exercises, and the theme of the exercise may focus on further improving the PLA's practical ability.
It is reported that Russia participated in the "West · United-20121" exercise held at the Army Bronze Truth Contract Training Base in August 2021.The exercise was led by the Chinese army and was also the first time that the Chinese army invited foreign forces to enter the China annual strategic exercise.
For the reason why this year's exercise is selected in the middle of the Japan Sea, the report pointed out that first of all, it is because this is the Gonghai Sea, and countries can carry out military training operations in the Gonghai Sea according to international law.
The report quoted military expert Song Zhongping that the Japanese Sea is an important strategic channel for China and Russia.The national strategic security, "Especially for some of the forces that want to make waves in this sea, it will cause a major security threat to China and Russia."The subject of this exercise is "Maintaining the Safety of Maritime Strategic Channel". As the name implies, the selection of exercises can be held in Japan to better display the exercise topic, and there are also "strong targeted and practicality."
Song Zhongping believes that this exercise can further improve the ability to actively maintain the strategic channels of the maritime at the maritime, and ensure that in the state of unstable future situations, even the state of maintaining conflicts in the state of conflictSafety.
