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support groups during peacetime to provide corps level units with mobilization
divisions and supplement battalions capable of exerting combat power equal to that
of standing troops in wartime. Other commands are responsible for personnel and
logistics support as well as education and training.
While efficiently utilizing its existing forces to the fullest extent, the Army is
restructuring its units so that they can carry out rapid decision operations in order to
realize the concept of future joint operations. To achieve this objective, the Army is
steadfastly acquiring its surveillance and reconnaissance capabilities including the
dronebot combat system that utilizes reconnaissance, attack, and electronic warfare
2)
drones, as well as its maneuver and strike capabilities such as K2 battle tanks,
Korean Utility Helicopters, and multiple launch rocket system (MLRS) .
3)

Navy The Navy consists of the Navy Headquarters, the Republic of Korea
Fleet (COMROKFLT), Marine Corps Headquarters, Northwest Islands
2)
Dronebot is a portmanteau Defense Command, and support units. Key organizations and assets of the Navy are
of drone and robot. It
refers to a manned and shown in [Chart 3-3].
unmanned combat system
to supplement or replace
the capability of a manned [Chart 3-3] Key Organizations and Assets of the Navy
combat system.
3) Navy HQ
As a weapon capable of
delivering massive and
concentrated firepower at
once, it is a launch system COMROKFLT Marine Corps HQ / Northwest Islands Logistics Command Training and Doctrine
in which multiple rockets Defense Command Command
are mounted in rectangular
or cylindrical launchers. Submarine Force Divisions (2),
Fleet Commands (3) Command Brigades (2)
4)
Its operations are aimed at
securing and maintaining
maritime control and Troops Surface Amphibious Mine warfare Auxiliary vessels Submarines Aircraft
vessels
vessels
destroying or neutralizing Approx. 70,000 combatants Approx. 10 Approx. 10 Approx. 20 Approx. 10 Approx. 60
Approx. 100
the enemy’s maritime
forces using surface  Around 29,000 troops of the Marine Crops are included.
combatants, submarines,
and aircraft.
5) COMROKFLT has command authority over naval operations as a whole and
It conducts operations conducts anti-surface , anti-submarine , mine and countermine , and amphibious
4)
6)
5)
to destroy or neutralize
the enemy’s submarines operations. Fleet Commands defend their assigned areas by deploying combatants
to defend freedom of
navigation in the maritime such as destroyers, frigates, patrol vessels, and patrol killer mediums. The Submarine
zones.
Force Command executes submarine operations. The Marine Corps Headquarters
6)
It also conducts operations executes amphibious operations and defense operations of its assigned areas and
of interdicting or
neutralizing the enemy’s strategic islands, and operates a Quick Maneuver Force. The Northwest Islands
naval forces with the help
of mines, or repulsing the Defense Command is responsible for security and defense missions regarding the
enemy’s attempts at using
mines. northwest islands. Other commands are in charge of logistics support as well as
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