People's Liberation Army Naval Air Force - Mission

Mission

Primary Mission

  • Provide fleet air defense for PLAN surface combatants
  • Patrol and hunt/destroy for submarines
  • Air patrols and defense of territorial waters
  • Air defense of the mainland's coastline
  • Anti-ship attack

Secondary Mission

  • Transport and training
  • Search and rescue
  • Assault transport and tactical support for amphibious operations
  • Interdiction attack on enemy ground targets

Read more about this topic:  People's Liberation Army Naval Air Force

Famous quotes containing the word mission:

    “The mission of the United States is one of benevolent assimilation.”
    —William McKinley (1843–1901)

    “The mission of men there seems to be, like so many busy demons, to drive the forest all out of the country, from every solitary beaver swamp and mountain-side, as soon as possible.”
    —Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

    “It is the mission of the twentieth century to elucidate the irrational.”
    —Maurice Merleau-Ponty (1907–1961)