The 75th Group Army (),
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31663, formerly the 41st Group Army, is a military formation of the Chinese
People's Liberation Army Ground Force
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(PLAGF). The 75th Group Army is one of thirteen total
group armies of the PLAGF, the largest echelon of ground forces in the
People's Republic of China
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, and one of two assigned to the nation's
Southern Theater Command
The Southern Theater Command () is one of the Theater commands of the People's Liberation Army, five theater commands of the People's Liberation Army, founded on 1 February 2016. Its predecessor was the Guangzhou Military Region.
Its jurisdicti ...
.
Organization
Pre-2017
*121st Mountain Motorized Infantry Brigade ()
*122nd Mechanized Infantry Brigade ()
*123th Mechanzied Infantry Division ()
*15th Armored Brigade ()
*Artillery Brigade ()
*Air-Defense Brigade ()
*Army Aviation Regiment ()
*Boat Regiment ()
*Chemical-Defense Regiment ()
*Engineer Regiment ()
Post-2017
*
31st Heavy Combined Arms Brigade () (equipped with
Type 96A tanks,
ZBD-04 IFVs)
*
32nd Mountain Combined Arms Brigade ()
* ()
* ()
* () - Stationed in
Guilin
Guilin (Standard Zhuang: ''Gveilinz''), postal map romanization, formerly romanization of Chinese, romanized as Kweilin, is a prefecture-level city in the northeast of China's Guangxi, Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region. It is situated on the we ...
, equipped with
ZBL-08
The Type 08 ( zh, c=08式轮式装甲车族 , p=Líng bā Shì lúnshì zhuāngjiǎchē zú, l=Type 08 wheeled armored vehicle family) is a People's Republic of China, Chinese family of modern eight-wheel drive, eight-wheeled, amphibious vehicle, ...
and
ZTL-11
* () - Stationed in
Guigang, equipped with
ZTQ-15 and
ZBD-86A
*121st Air Assault Brigade ()
* ()
*75th Artillery Brigade ()
*75th Air-Defense Brigade ()(equipped with
Tor-M1 and
type 09 anti air system)
*75th Engineer and Chemical-Defense Brigade ()
*75th Sustainment Brigade ()
References
Further reading
*Dennis J. Blasko. "PLA Ground Forces: Moving Toward a Smaller, More Rapidly Deployable, Modern Combined Arms Force" The People's Liberation Army as Organization: Reference Volume v1.0, James C. Mulvenon and Andrew N. D. Yang eds. (Santa Monico: RAND; 2002)
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