Airborne troops accelerate their transformation into a synthetic "flying army"

  On May 6, at the playground of a combined brigade of airborne soldiers, more than a thousand officers and soldiers solemnly arrayed and solemnly held a ceremony for the awarding of a certain type of wheeled armored vehicle independently researched and developed by China, witnessing the addition of the "Flight Wheel" to the "Flight Army" Special moments.

  Yang Liang, an assistant in charge of the loading work, introduced that as a new type of informational armored equipment, the vehicle has strong strategic mobility, excellent firepower attack capability, and excellent comprehensive protection performance. It is suitable for the main aircraft of our army to be airdropped and can be airborne with equipment. The use of another tracked armored combat vehicle of the soldiers, "Its arrangement and formation of combat effectiveness will fill the gap in the wheeled armored equipment of the airborne soldiers, which also marks the" air mechanization "of the airborne soldiers. To a new level. "

  As soon as the ceremony was over, more than 10 newly-installed wheeled armored vehicles drove to the training ground to begin the combined training of people and equipment. The brigade commander Zheng Yingjun said that when the new car was developed and produced, the brigade organized officers and soldiers to go to the equipment manufacturers to see the job in batches, and cultivated a group of technical leaders and operational backbones in advance. Now when the new car is in place, it is still competing for training. To strive for an early combat effectiveness.

  It is understood that the airborne synthetic brigade is a new type of airborne combat force newly established after the reform and adjustment. It has more than 10 professional arms such as infantry, artillery, scouts, armored forces, and communication soldiers. However, there are still unsupported systems and structures in the construction of weapons and equipment. Unreasonable, low degree of informatization, weak system functions and other issues, the phenomenon of "playing each other" still exists in the exercises.

  Zheng Yingjun introduced that with the installation of the vehicle, its on-board accusation communication platform and network can aggregate combat units, reconnaissance units, accusation communication units, etc. to form an integrated combat system. Will be effectively resolved, and form a winning advantage of the system.

  This year marks the 70th anniversary of the establishment of airborne troops. The construction of airborne weapons and equipment has also gone through a 70-year leap-forward development. For quite a long time after its formation, the airborne troops were limited by the level of equipment and the traditional thinking of "Army Brother". They had always followed the "one person, one umbrella, one gun" light-load mode, and could only drop weapons and equipment within 120 kg. Flying in the air but walking on the ground is in the difficult development stage of "air infantry".

  "Without heavy firepower on the battlefield, there is no right to speak." Wang Furong, one of the first 62 paratroopers in New China and a retired veteran of the Kaifeng dry rest camp, said at that time the airborne soldiers participated in the whole army's confrontation exercise. The opponent's tank wheels race and meet the "enemy" with light weapons. Wang Furong said: "Today I saw the new wheeled armored trains installed. I am very happy that the airborne soldiers will have a heavy guy as soon as they land, which can be regarded as the wish of our older generation of airborne soldiers."

  If the door of heavy equipment airdrop cannot be opened, the mechanization of airborne troops cannot be achieved, and the informationization based on mechanization is even more impossible to talk about. Li Zhenbo, a senior engineer who used to be the director of the Airborne Soldiers Institute, said, "In the early 1990s, when we went abroad, we saw that Russian airborne soldiers used airborne vehicles to beat opponents, and we could only airdrop small pieces. Equipment, the gap is obvious. "

  "This is not a small stimulus for Chinese airborne troops." Under the practical requirements of accelerating transformation and development and enhancing combat effectiveness, the development of airborne troops has embarked on the road of heavy mechanization. During this period, the airborne troops were identified as emergency mobile combat forces by the Military Commission, and thus entered the development of the "fast lane".

  In August 2000, the paratroopers successfully conducted a trial of 30 consecutive combat supplies, exceeding the record of a maximum of 22 foreign concessions. This is the most effective method for rapid supply of airborne combat supplies. Since then, the paratroopers have Reliable "mobile warehouse".

  In June 2002, at the head of the Yellow River, a historic breakthrough was made in the airdrop of heavy equipment. The weight of the airdrop reached XX tons. This ensured that various vehicles, artillery and other large equipment can be randomly airdropped, creating technical conditions for heavy equipment to accompany airborne operations.

  In August 2005, in the Jiaodong Peninsula, the continuous investment of 3 pieces of heavy equipment was successfully implemented. China has mastered this key technology after a few countries such as the United States and Russia, and has achieved a historic breakthrough in the long-range assault capability of airborne troops.

  Along with the breakthroughs in airborne airdrops, the construction of airborne troops has moved forward rapidly. A large number of heavy weapons and equipment suitable for land combat and air combat, such as airborne combat vehicles, warrior assault vehicles, and large-caliber self-propelled artillery, have been updated and tested , Successively "for my use".

  Using the characteristics of long-range maneuvering of heavy equipment, the airborne troops explored large-scale cluster airborne operations, and on the basis of implementing vertical strikes and non-contact operations, they first proposed new theories of full-field operations and full-spectrum responses, which made it common to use small unit raids in the past. The "sharp knife" has become the "iron fist" with long-distance direct access, heavy equipment, and greater power.

  In September 2008, deep in the grasslands of Inner Mongolia, the "Libing-2008" exercise kicked off: high-altitude, manned airborne parachute, wing parachute penetration, aerial mines and other new technologies show their talents; low-altitude, helicopter assault, overpoint attack and other new technologies The tactics of war make the "enemy" invincible; on the ground, new airborne troops chariots are deployed in a vertical and horizontal direction, and the maneuverability is flexible ... The airborne troops firmly grasp the initiative on the battlefield by virtue of flexible and mobile strategic tactics.

  Since then, the airborne troops have completed the upgrade from "iron footboard" to "motorized" to "semi-mechanized" and "mechanized". The combat force structure has also been developed from a single arm to an infantry, artillery, armor, missile, and aviation. The "air group army" composed of multiple forces has initially formed the mechanization of main battle equipment, the parachute of combat equipment, and the three-dimensionalization of battlefield maneuverability.

  In April 2007, it was another "milestone" in the construction of airborne troops: with the official delivery of the airborne regiment command information system, airborne soldiers began to explore a modular airborne combat mode based on information systems. They surpassed the decentralized organization that has been used for many years in the past, and put forward the concept of "module integration" that adapts to the needs of future airborne battlefields. Ground attack, air support, fire attack, special units, etc. are all independent modules, which are flexibly organized and used according to operational needs, and the army has accelerated its transformation "Air Synthetic Force".

  In a whole army exercise in 2013, the airborne troops demonstrated a new combat capability: under the strong electromagnetic interference of the electronic counter unit and the artillery fire support, the synthetic force composed of ground attack, air assault, fire attack and other combat elements "Fisting", carrying out air-ground coordinated assaults on the "enemy" from the front, side, air, and rear to complete the multi-target attack and control. Some media commented: Airborne operations formally moved towards "synthesis".

  In 2017, after a new round of reform and remodeling, the airborne force formation system was incorporated into the joint combat command and force system, and it shouldered the important task of implementing "air-ground integration" combat missions in multiple strategic directions, multiple battlefield environments, and multiple arms. , It puts forward new and higher requirements for the support capability of the weapon equipment system.

  Aiming to integrate into the joint combat system, airborne troops focus on the development of new weapons and equipment such as air delivery, air-to-ground assault, command and control, and guided strikes. According to the chain planning of "module, unit, system, system", airborne weapons and equipment The construction is striding towards informatization and systematization.

  "In the future war, the integrated operation of all arms and services is a trend, and the use of airborne troops alone is relative." Wang Xiaolu, director of the Airborne Forces Support Department, introduced that airborne troops can be modularized according to the needs of the battlefield in the joint combat system. Lightweight and reloadable, on the basis of "full mechanization" and "air-ground integration" and combining our own characteristics, we will gradually create airborne troops with Chinese characteristics and systematic combat capabilities capable of performing missions in the new era.

  The development and advancement of equipment has promoted the continuous growth of airborne brigades in the construction of new quality combat capabilities. In a combat capability test mission, the brigade of an airborne soldier was quickly delivered to the depths of the grassland thousands of miles away. After landing, it was integrated into a "fist" through an information system to successfully control important targets; an airborne assault drill, "Raytheon" The commando reached the islands and reefs across the sea and airborne, and built a real-time and transparent battlefield situation through new accusations and reconnaissance equipment. The commander sat in the rear of the "Chinese military account" and knew the battlefield situation clearly.

  From "air infantry" to "air group army" to "air combined force", equipment upgrades also call for new airborne vanguards. Airborne soldiers formulate plans for the construction of talent teams, and strengthen the construction and training of combat talents through campaign training, competitive training, post rotation, and school delivery training, and take information literacy as an important indicator for selection and evaluation, and take multiple measures to improve the informationization of officers and soldiers. Quality.

  In the summer of 2019, somewhere in northern Guangdong, hundreds of heavily armed paratroopers descended from the sky with the chariot artillery, such as a sharp sharp knife, quickly torn the gap at the front of the "enemy" ... the steps, artillery, engineering and aviation to participate in the exercise According to the airspace, altitude, time, target and the combined firepower of fighters, missiles, and light weapons, we will implement "air-ground integration, three-dimensional breakthrough, overall combat, and deep strikes". A large number of "high-tech communication", "foreign military communication", and tactics "Communication" and "Equipment Communication" show their powers in actual combat.

  At present, 90% of the battalion chiefs of the airborne combat forces have participated in joint combat training missions, and more than 60% of the backbone of the combat have the ability to use "one specialty and multiple capabilities" weapons. New leap.

  Guo Qing, Jiang Long Source: China Youth Daily