Build an informationized training ground to realize the true integration of data power and combat power
The officers and soldiers of a certain rocket brigade are drawing up a combat plan
Photo courtesy of the interviewee
With an integrated command platform that can realize cloud command and guidance, data power is truly connected to combat power, and our military training is also more motivated.
Zhang Dong
Battalion Commander of the Third Battalion Launched by a Brigade of the Rocket Army
In the midsummer season, deep in the mountains in the hinterland of the Central Plains, pine waves and flags are blowing in the wind and hunting.
In the training ground of a certain Rocket Army brigade, you can feel the strong atmosphere of combat everywhere: in the distance, Dongfeng chariots are arrayed; nearby, camouflage tents are dotted, field first aid, equipment repair, logistics support, complete functions, integrated linkage ...A comprehensive information-based training assessment to test the combat capabilities of the troops is being staged intensely here.
What is different from the past is that they are on an informationized military training ground aimed at future wars.
In order to realize the real-time sharing of training troops' information and the informatization of command and control, the brigade aimed at multi-dimensional spatial situational awareness and created a three-dimensional information network integrating guidance, planning, and action.
If you don’t hide in place, you will be "caught" by the high-definition camera.
"Order your department to occupy the position on time at × hour × minute!" This is an accurate guidance command from the voice broadcasting system beside the mountain road to a battalion marching at the bottom of the deep valley. Battalion Commander Xu Ming responded quickly after hearing the command. , Order the troops to quickly assault into the position.
On the other side, in the intelligent command and control hall, a huge screen is showing the battalion's outgoing animation in real time.
In the video, the companies are advancing toward the position according to the battle sequence.
Six guidance experts stared at the display screen and scored the combat operations.
"The leader of the second echelon had an accident on the way, and the road was blocked and the personnel on board were seriously injured." As soon as the troops were pulled out, the guidance team immediately issued a special situation.
"I took difficult subjects before I started fighting. I didn't have to be so anxious before." Xu Ming thought to himself, and after repeated considerations, he decided to take the same tricks as before.
After organizing personnel to judge the surrounding enemy situation, he decisively ordered: "Engineering vehicles and medical teams go to rescue immediately, and other vehicles detour."
The soldiers followed the orders, and all the team members of the entire battalion moved quickly. The personnel rescue and road repairs were carried out simultaneously. Soon the echelon was able to continue to advance to the position.
Unexpectedly, just arrived in an open area, a new special sentiment came out in the voice broadcast: "The'enemy' inspection and combat drone is flying in the air!"
This is an old special situation, Xu Ming is in the chest, and the military echelon is ordered to deal with the emergency plan.
Soon, the entire battalion of officers and soldiers began to act in accordance with the previous tactics, pulling the vehicles aside and stalling in disguise, organizing personnel to evacuate and conceal...all the actions were done in one go.
While everyone was confidently waiting for the next instruction, the steering team in the command and control hall lit a "red light" on the spot: the vehicle engine and tires were not cooled, and the "enemy" drone captured the thermal signal. , The whereabouts of the troops are exposed!
"The vehicle was attacked by'enemy' fire, and many soldiers were injured; the outside of the left rear tire of a material vehicle was bombed..." Immediately after the loopholes dealt with in the previous special situation, the examiner added a series of "fatal" compound special situations at the scene. .
Although Xu Ming tried his best to organize emergency medical teams to rescue and evacuate the wounded, and coordinate the comprehensive support group to repair vehicles, the whole camp still suffered "heavy losses."
"The use of the'cloud guidance tune' for the subject assignment, sees that the tricks are not working!" Li Min, the commander of the fourth battalion who was observing on the spot, said with emotion.
This statement is true. Zhang Xinlong, the commander of the fifth battalion who just withdrew from the examination room, was deeply moved. He said that in the past, when the battalion synthesis training assessment was organized, the instructors were "sticky", and they tracked wherever the troops went. Now The situation is different.
As soon as the fifth battalion entered the comprehensive training ground, they received the "Satellite Airline" command hidden in the roadside voice broadcast. The officers and soldiers immediately concealed their equipment and deployed camouflage nets to cover the vehicles, although the entire detachment quickly "disappeared". In the depths of the jungle, many people with poorly hidden camouflage were "caught" by high-definition cameras, and were judged "dead" before they could react.
Let every visual command have "data" to rely on
In the middle of the night, the brigade’s well-lit underground "Dragon Palace" closed survival drill was still going on.
On the computer screen in the battalion command post, the battlefield situation is clear at a glance. Information acquisition and processing, information decision-making and planning run through the entire process, and battlefield information and brigade, battalion, and company three-level command data flow quickly.
"There is a leakage of agent in the X area, please deal with it immediately." Seeing the "cloud command" popping up on the display, Zhang Dong, commander of the 3rd Battalion Battalion, sitting in front of the computer, tapped the real-time monitoring interface several times with the mouse, and then quickly Locate the leak area.
Then he tapped the keyboard, integrated various battlefield data and decision-making assistance systems, and a new set of processing solutions was quickly completed.
"One group will deal with it immediately, and the second group will be ready to respond." He turned on the intelligent voice broadcast system and accurately issued a password to the emergency team lurking in the operation room. The two groups of trumpeters worked closely together and quickly completed the special handling. The whole process was shortened by nearly 10 minutes than before.
"The position has been hit, and the power supply system has been damaged." The danger is pressing step by step, interlocking.
"Enable the trumpeter backup program; enable self-generation, check the situation of the position equipment; enable wireless communication means to strengthen surrounding inspections and guard defense..." With previous experience, Zhang Dong carefully sorted out the combat forces and used intelligent voice The broadcasting system issued multiple instructions in one go.
The combat teams that received the order made up their own positions and rushed to the corresponding points in a quick and orderly manner.
The screen in the computer in front of Zhang Dong showed that the power distribution operator with full body protection quickly entered the operation room to cut off the power supply of the equipment. The air-conditioning operator was divided into two batches to check the ventilation and water supply.
In the corner of the battalion command post, cryptographic notification engineer Ma Shengbing and Zhuyuan technician Kong Xianqi are sitting in front of the computer busy updating weather conditions, attacking Zhuyuan, satellite information and other data.
"After the new data is input, it can promote the rapid surging of data information flow, so that every visual command has a basis to rely on." They said.
Just after the end of a round of drills, the review and discussion organized remotely by the brigade command post began immediately.
On the electronic screen, the system replays the exercise process and reproduces the exercise situation; the trainees carefully analyze combat losses, evaluate combat effectiveness, and collectively study improvement measures.
"With an integrated command platform that can realize cloud command and guidance, data power is truly connected to combat power, and we are more motivated to train troops." Zhang Dong said while redrawing the drill plan and adjusting the drill deployment. The team once again plunged into the next round of drills.
Information platform supports precise, rapid, and integrated command
Talking about these gratifying changes on the training ground, the concept of the brigade commander Luo Gang is refreshing.
He said that with the surging tide of military reforms, the battlefield’s efforts to evolve toward informatization have further increased. If the evolution of war patterns cannot be kept up, there will be no way to win future informatized wars.
In the past, due to the lack of information platform support, most of the understanding of the troop status in training exercises relied on wired and wireless communication means.
Dozens of points in the brigade are scattered across the mountains thousands of miles away. Even if the few instructors are "spread beans into soldiers" to follow the squad actions, there will still be "more command and less information, less information, and less intelligence." The shortcomings of “more instructions and less actions” make it impossible to achieve precise, rapid, and integrated command, and the quality and effectiveness of the exercise assessment are greatly compromised.
"This outstanding contradiction has become a'blocker' on the way to upgrade the combat effectiveness of the entire brigade." He said.
"Can you create a platform that can perceive the situation in multi-dimensional space, and integrate surveillance, reconnaissance, intelligence, command, control, and communications?" At a review meeting, the idea of a senior supervisor aroused everyone's attention. discuss.
The party committee of the brigade is keenly aware that data point soldiers are the general trend in future wars. As a large-scale missile force holding the national trump card and trump card, it can only be based on the future battlefield, tactics and training method inspection field and weapon equipment. The basic positioning of the test field is to construct a training field, and the rapid reaction capability and the global deterrence capability based on the network information system can be effectively improved.
Subsequently, an informationized military training ground aimed at future warfare began.
——In the field comprehensive training ground, they continue to introduce and embed information technology, install high-definition cameras with infrared sensing, sound collection, face recognition, and automatic tracking of moving objects on important roads and training points; configure certain cameras in all directions in the air Brand UAVs simultaneously collect training troops information; extensively deploy intelligent voice broadcast equipment in training grounds; establish a control system that can collect terminal information and analyze and judge the status of troops in the combat command center, and build a set of integrated guidance, planning, and Action-in-one visual command and confrontation system.
——In the underground positions deep in the rock formations, they closely followed the direction of the intelligent development of military equipment, looked for the weak links of the original integrated information system in simulation, networking, and confrontational means construction and application, and upgraded it. Form a multi-dimensional, fully functional position command control and management system.
"With the support of the information platform, the directors no longer "spread beans into soldiers", and the exercise, assessment and command has been precise, rapid, and integrated." Luo Gang said.
(Huang Yang Jiang Ning, our reporter Zhang Qiang)