CASI Report: PLA Naval Aviation Reorganization
From 2023, units / formations of the PLA Navy aviation are being transferred to the Air Force (Air Force).
At least 11 formations fell under the control of the Air Force:
three fighter brigades;
two bomber regiments;
three radio engineering teams;
three air defense brigades;
airfields.
A potentially more significant implication is that the transfer of PLAN JH-7 and H-6
aircraft strips the PLAN of most of its minelaying aircraft. Unless the PLAAF integrates
minelaying topics into its own training outline, this leaves PLAN Y-9 anti-submarine warfare
aircraft as the only aircraft that train to conduct minelaying.
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