Fleet Command Conducts First Squadron-Level Joint Exercise Since Inception

Nine Ships Including Sejong the Great and One Submarine Participate

The Naval Mobile Fleet Command conducted its first joint exercise since its establishment.

The Navy announced on the 27th that the Mobile Fleet Command conducted a maritime exercise for three days from the 25th in the West and South Seas to establish military readiness. This exercise is the first squadron-level joint training involving the Mobile Fleet's forces, including Aegis destroyers, since the Mobile Fleet Command was established on the 1st.

The exercise involved nine ships and one submarine, as well as 13 aircraft. The participating vessels included the Mobile Fleet's Sejong the Great (DDG-I, 7,600-ton Aegis destroyer), Dae Jo-Young (DDH-II, 4,400-ton destroyer), Cheonji (AOE-I, 4,200-ton logistics support ship), and the 3rd Fleet's Jeonbuk and Gwangju (FFG-I, 2,500-ton frigates), and Park Dong-jin (PKG, 450-ton guided missile fast attack craft).

The participating forces established readiness against enemy provocations at sea, underwater, and in the air through realistic training such as anti-ship firing, anti-submarine warfare exercises, SM-2 fleet air defense missile engagement control training against enemy aircraft, and ship damage recovery and damage control drills. In particular, the Sejong the Great conducted training to detect and track enemy ballistic missiles in response to North Korea's nuclear and missile threats, strengthening the maritime-based Korean-style three-axis system capabilities.

Colonel Jo Beom-sang, captain of the Sejong the Great, said, "Through the first squadron-level mobile training since the establishment of the Mobile Fleet, we have established a winning combat posture and mental readiness to conclude operations successfully on the ground," adding, "We will complete a maritime operational posture capable of strongly retaliating and repelling if the enemy provokes through realistic training."