South Korea's Ground Operations Command conducts large-scale counter-fire field exercise

The Army's Ground Operations Command organized its yearly counter-fire field training from Monday through Friday, engaging about 4,100 personnel from the Combined Ground Component Command. Conducted alongside the annual Hoguk exercise, the drills recreated an all-out war scenario on the Korean Peninsula, with intelligence and artillery units attempting to seize positions and engage targets using a suite of joint surveillance and strike tools, including allied UAVs, counter-battery radars, the Korean Tactical Surface-to-Surface Missile and K9 self-propelled howitzers.

Troops also rehearsed reactions to hostile attacks on their units and to communications-network jamming, as well as logistics tasks like ammunition resupply. In parallel, the command executed anti-aircraft live-fire training with guided weapons in Boryeong, located about 140 km southwest of Seoul.