Marines from Korea and the US take part in final 12 months’s Ssangyong (double dragon) train in Pohang, North Gyeongsang Province, March 29, 2023. Yonhap
Korea and the US will start their large-scale amphibious touchdown train within the southeastern metropolis of Pohang and the jap coast this week to construct up the allies’ fight readiness posture and interoperability, the Navy and Marine Corps mentioned Sunday.
This 12 months’s Ssangyong (double dragon) train, which runs from Monday by way of Sept. 7, will mobilize division-level touchdown forces and a few 40 vessels, together with two amphibious assault ships, the ROKS Dokdo and the ROKS Marado, in addition to the USS Boxer, based on army officers.
The drills may also carry collectively some 40 plane, equivalent to F-35B radar-evading jets, and round 40 amphibious assault automobiles, the Navy and Marine Corps mentioned in a joint launch.
Starting this 12 months, the allies’ Marine Corps will arrange a mixed workers group, which can collectively lead the touchdown train aboard the ROKS Marado, they added.
A joint army command overseeing drone operations, launched in September final 12 months, will take part within the Ssangyong train for the primary time and conduct surveillance actions deploying drones.
Additionally becoming a member of the train will probably be Britain’s Royal Marines Commandos, marking their participation within the drills for a second consecutive 12 months.
In accordance with the train plan, the allies are scheduled to stage the “decisive motion” part of the train early subsequent month, which can carry collectively the taking part troops, touchdown ships, fighters and choppers to show their “overwhelming” capabilities for the touchdown train.
The allies resumed the Ssangyong train for the primary time in 5 years in March 2023. It had not been held since 2018 amid the previous Moon Jae-in administration’s drive for inter-Korean rapprochement. (Yonhap)
