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TRAINING AND SIMULATION UPDATE

December 24, 2019 by

Sponsored by Meggitt Training Systems

https://meggitttrainingsystems.com/

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23 Dec 19. South Korea, U.S. commandos practice raiding enemy facility as North Korea tensions rise. South Korean and U.S. special forces troops recently conducted drills simulating the infiltration of an enemy facility, U.S. military photos seen by Reuters on Monday show, as tensions with North Korea ratchet up ahead of a year-end deadline.

South Korean and U.S. commandos raided the facility and led out a man with his hands tied behind the back during the exercise described as a joint regular close-quarters battle training last month at a U.S. military base in the southwestern South Korean city of Gunsan.

A South Korean official said the drill was designed as a hostage rescue operation training as part of a counter-terrorism drill conducted quarterly by the allies. The U.S. Forces Korea did not respond to a request for comment.

The rare release of the photos by the U.S. Defence Visual Information Distribution Service comes ahead of a year-end deadline set by Pyongyang for Washington to soften its stance in stalled talks.

The service is operated by an arm of the U.S. Department of Defense.

South Korea’s Chosun Ilbo newspaper, which first reported the training, said the drills were intended to simulate a scenario to capture North Korean executives.

Screenshots of what it said was a now deleted video from the Pentagon showed a man in military uniforms akin to that of North Korea collapse upon a gunshot from one of the commandos, Chosun Ilbo said.

Pyongyang has in the past accused the United States and South Korea of seeking to topple its regime with “hostile policy”, while slamming their regular joint military exercises as plots to “decapitate” its leadership and a rehearsal for war.

South Korea under a previous administration had planned to launch a special unit in 2017 tasked with “removing or paralysing” North Korea’s top command in the event of a war.

Tension has been growing in recent weeks as North Korea conducts a series of weapons tests and waged a war of words with U.S. President Donald Trump in an apparent bid to underscore its year-end deadline.

Earlier this month, Trump said the United States reserved the right to use military force against North Korea.

General Charles Brown, commander of U.S. Pacific Air Forces, said last week the U.S. military could “dust off pretty quickly and be ready to use” options it had developed during the height of tensions in 2017. (Source: Reuters)

23 Dec 19. South Korea commissions second training support vessel. The Republic of Korea Navy (RoKN) has commissioned a second multipurpose training boat (MTB). According to a release from the service issued in early December, the vessel (JA-202) was accepted into service on 29 November and deployed with the First Fleet at Donghae after a two-week crew operational training and familiarisation period.

Built at Hanjin Heavy Industries’ Yeongdo Shipyard, the 280-tonne, 45 m-long vessel can accommodate a crew of 14 with additional berths for technical staff. It can support airborne and surface target launchings and torpedo retrieval, and serve as an electronic warfare (EW) training platform. The EW training aspect is accomplished by a LIGNex1-developed electronic warfare training support (EWTS) system, which uses its Sonata electronic warfare system as the building block. (Source: Jane’s)

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Over 13,600 Meggitt live-fire ranges and 5,100 virtual systems are fielded internationally, providing judgmental, situational awareness and marksmanship training to the armed forces, law enforcement and security organizations. Meggitt Training Systems employs more than 400 people at its headquarters in Atlanta and at facilities in Orlando, Canada, the United Kingdom, Netherlands, UAE, Australia and Singapore. It can deploy service personnel anywhere in the world for instructor training, system installation and maintenance. Learn more at https://meggitttrainingsystems.com/.

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