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Sea Shield 2019 video

Union of Myanmar Navy launched Combined Fleet Exercise-Sea Shield 2019 off Coco Island on March 18.

“The naval fleet exercise is conducted every four months. The Combined Fleet Exercise-Sea Shield is launched every year. A team of navy seals conducted a drill in which they approached an enemy-occupied merchant ship on board the four fast combat boats and three helicopters, captured the ship,and rescued the hostages. Our exercise record becomes better. It is cooperated by the air force. Our mission becomes faster and more effective. War vessels performed exercises to prevent danger of enemy’s submarine and air strikes of enemy, open fire of anti-submarine mines and torpedoes for prevention of surprised attacks from fast combat vessels of enemy,” said Chief of Staff (Navy) Commodore Moe Aung.

video courtesy to Popular News

The ships performed exercises to prevent danger of enemy’s submarine and air strikes of enemy, open fire of anti-submarine mines and torpedoes for prevention of surprised attacks from fast combat vessels of enemy, change marching formation to avoid air strikes, deploy vessels to combat the fast vessel of enemy with attacks, conduct counter-shooting to long-range guided missiles of enemy with the use of weapon systems from own vessels, and took practices of opening collective fire of mix caliber artilleries, exercises of electronic warfare, firing of rockets and shooting of large artilleries.


After the combat exercise, the two vessels participated in one more exercise namely the Underway Replenishment At Sea, aimed at re-supplying fuel, water, rations and ammunition among war vessels to one another. 

1667 officers and other ranks and 29 different kinds of Naval ships participated in the exercise. 

The Combined Fleet Exercise-Sea Shield has been launched since 2014 and now it will be the fifth. The Combined Fleet Exercise-Sea Shield that was last launched was in 2017. Since then it lasted for nine days from March 23 to 31. 

The last naval exercise conducted in 2017 was the fourth one in which 28 war vessels of different kinds, helicopters and more than 1,400 officers and other ranks.


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