Xinhua News Agency, Nanjing, August 4 (Reporters Li Bingxuan, Han Xueyang) The Eastern Theater of the Chinese People's Liberation Army organized an unprecedented scale of actual combat-oriented joint exercises in the sea and airspace around Taiwan Island on August 4, and successfully carried out long-range live ammunition in the scheduled waters. shooting.
At about 13:00 on the 4th, a number of new long-range box-type rocket launchers of the Eastern Theater Army conducted long-range live ammunition training in the Taiwan Strait, and carried out precise strikes on specific areas in the eastern part of the Taiwan Strait.
The new long-range box-type rocket has a longer range and higher accuracy, and the box-type ammunition replenishment method can greatly shorten the combat preparation time.
The reporter saw at the scene that the rockets roared out with tail flames, forming a dense firepower network and hitting the target sea area directly.
The strike screen returned by the drone in real time shows that the rocket accurately hit the target.
Live ammunition had the desired effect.
On the afternoon of the 4th, the Rocket Force of the Eastern Theater Command carried out a multi-regional and multi-model constant-guided fire attack on the predetermined waters off the eastern Taiwan island.
The reporter witnessed the spectacular scene of the missile launch at the launch site.
After receiving the launch order, the commander calmly issued the password, the trumpeter quickly and accurately started the operation, bound the parameters, and erected the missile, showing excellent military quality and high fighting spirit.
Following an order, multiple missiles soared into the air one after another, piercing the sky.
All the missiles accurately hit the target area, testing the precise strike and area denial capabilities of the participating troops.
The Air Force and Naval Air Force of the Eastern Theater Command dispatched more than 100 sorties of various types and types of fighters, including fighters, bombers, early warning aircraft, and tankers, and carried out cross-day and night joint reconnaissance, aerial refueling, air superiority operations, ground assaults, and support and cover in the scheduled sea and airspace. Training, tempering the troops' combat capabilities such as continuous dispatch of large aircraft groups, multi-force control and coordination, long-term continuous air superiority, and high-intensity precision strikes.
More than 10 destroyers and escorts of the navy in the Eastern Theater Command have successively carried out joint closure and control operations in the waters around Taiwan Island, carried out sea sweeping alerts in the fire test area, and cooperated with neighboring forces to conduct reconnaissance and guidance.
The officers and soldiers maintained a high degree of alert throughout the whole process, pulled them many times, and carried out trainings such as strikes against the sea, air defense and anti-missile defense, and joint anti-submarine warfare, and were always ready to deal with possible emergencies.
Liu Dongkun, deputy director of a bureau of the Joint Staff Department of the Eastern Theater Command, said that this actual combat-oriented joint exercise has tested the joint perception, joint accusation, joint killing, joint action, and joint support capabilities of the multi-service forces in the theater under the support of the system.
The troops in the theater acted on the orders, dared to fight and win, resolutely fulfilled the tasks assigned by the party and the people, and resolutely defended national sovereignty and territorial integrity!