Chinese Navy (PLAN) News & Discussions

[Greater China]

Work out room:

A full size basketball court on the deck with a 300 meter track around it:

 

[SinoChallenger]

071 LPD, 999 Ship and its hovercraft.

We are coming to eject illegal Vietnamese and Filipino trespassers from our South China Sea.

 

[Nishan_101]

So like the type-54As, is there any Type-54Bs?????

 

[Greater China]

PLA naval escort taskforce conducts light weapons training

March 08, 2012

The 11th naval escort taskforce under the Navy of the Chinese People’s Liberation Army (PLA) has been sailing to the Gulf of Aden and the waters off the Somali coast from the Jiaozhou Bay of Qingdao, east China’s Shandong Province for days running. The taskforce carries out training during sailing, in a bid to forge an elite force in an all-round way. (China Military Online/Chen Dianhong and Mi Jinguo)

A soldier is shooting towards the sea with a heavy machine gun.

The soldiers are performing a mission promptly.

A soldier carries out accurate shooting with a pistol.

The soldiers are in collective shooting.

A soldier hit the center of the target.

China Military Online

 

[White Lightning]

PLA sorties threaten encirclement



NEW FRONT:“I have no doubt that the PLA Navy is familiarizing itself with the operating environment off Taiwan, including the coastal geography and underwater hydrography, and experimenting with tactics for waging war there.”

 

[no_name]

Working in the gulf.

 

[Sasquatch]

Were taking more active role in combating pirates.

Combating pirates.

 

[marshall]

Work out room:
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A full size basketball court on the deck with a 300 meter track around it:

You have to be kidding me! They are wasting valuable deck space on a basketball court? That's almost enough space for a hangar deck. Grocery store, 24/7 buffet/canteen? What sort of weaklings are these psychologists trying to pamper into staying in the military, which I think is the last thing China would want or need.

 

[Greater China]

They are wasting valuable deck space on a basketball court? That's almost enough space for a hangar deck. Grocery store, 24/7 buffet/canteen? What sort of weaklings are these psychologists trying to pamper into staying in the military, which I think is the last thing China would want or need.

Sport promotes teamwork, fitness and boosts the morale of the troops. When the soldiers' morale is high, they perform better. That's a universal truth, no matter what army.

The U.S. Navy even agreed to hold an NCAA basketball game on the flight deck of the carrier Carl Vinson:

A part of the sports activities of the Australian Defence Force is gym training on deck:

 

[canadian icehole]

You have to be kidding me! They are wasting valuable deck space on a basketball court? That's almost enough space for a hangar deck. Grocery store, 24/7 buffet/canteen? What sort of weaklings are these psychologists trying to pamper into staying in the military, which I think is the last thing China would want or need.

Ship 88 is a support ship. While I agree that comfort and military rarely can be used together, you gotta find ways to keep your soldiers happy or else they leave the service.

 

[Sasquatch]

Combating pirates.

Working in the gulf.

Remember news were Chinese sailors had to fight off pirates.

 

[homing28]

 

[Sasquatch]

 

[Sasquatch]

 

[marshall]

Sport promotes teamwork, fitness and boosts the morale of the troops. When the soldiers' morale is high, they perform better. That's a universal truth, no matter what army.

The U.S. Navy even agreed to hold an NCAA basketball game on the flight deck of the carrier Carl Vinson:

Holding an NCAA game is a morale boosting temporary use of space that is excusable during peacetime. Creating a permanent basketball court on a warship that can hold a hangar deck for submarine hunting instead or missile batteries is a gross and utterly retarded waste of space. There are far far better ways to improve morale than using 1/4 of the floor space of a warship for leisure activities.

A part of the sports activities of the Australian Defence Force is gym training on deck:

This is a good way to improve morale because it is a temporary use of valuable deck space. Other good uses of deck space that do not involve permanently diverting and thus weakening the combat capability of a warship is using the ship deck as a running track. Good examples of ways to improve morale are using weight rooms, outdoor TEMPORARY workout regimes, computer wargame competitions (first person shooter games) and ESPECIALLY more frequent direct real-time communications with friends and family back home.