How Beijing Uses IT Technology and Spears to Arm the Army
The Chinese army is actively developing special forces. According to Chinese military doctrine, Special Operational Forces (MTR) units, extremely motivated and well-trained, should strike the first blow in the event of a possible conflict with India, Vietnam or any other neighboring country. There are many rumors circulating about these units, but reality often exceeds the wildest expectations. We learned how Chinese special forces training works.
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Over the years, the Chinese People's Liberation Army (PLA) has changed from scattered guerrilla units to the world's leading military force. In the 1940s, the PLA was extremely dependent on Soviet military aid and was unable to withstand the armies of capitalist China, Chiang Kai-shek, and Japanese invaders. The situation did not change even after the evacuation of Chiang Kai-shek to Taiwan. However, the Chinese army made up for the lack of modern weapons and equipment with the highest morale and hard combat training.
The Chinese contingent, which took part in the Korean War, had almost no armored vehicles and large-caliber artillery. In addition, Chinese volunteers cut warm military uniforms from killed American soldiers and confiscated blankets and sleeping bags as trophies. 70 years have passed since then and everything has changed.
Today, the PLA is one of the most technically advanced armies in the world. The traditions of military training of the Chinese army have hardly changed. The Insider published footage from the training of special units of the Chinese army. Fighters overcome the most difficult obstacle course. They need to crawl through the muddy puddle and try not to touch the low-stretched streaks of fabric. Bombs explode all the way around the soldiers, but the fighters are obliged to drown out the sounds of explosions by shouting patriotic slogans.
The Chinese “young warrior's course” includes push-ups in a puddle with a log on his back, muddying when exercising his abdomen, and much more. Special forces are trained to fight men with real knives. Fighters also learn extremely specific skills, such as extreme motorcycle driving,
Against this background, little things like 100 clicks per minute and 200 clicks on uneven bars no longer seem so difficult. Traditional Chinese wrestling technique – “iron palm” – is also used in the training of special forces. For several years now, fighters have been putting their hand on a bag of beans or a special board every day. Likewise, the elbows, knees, forehead and other parts of the body are “strengthened”, with the help of which a soldier can inflict injuries on the enemy with his bare hands.
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China Daily has published an interview with the 82nd Tactical Group of the Army Special Forces Brigade, which includes women. Their training is not very different from the training of male soldiers. Every year, the club is thrown into harsh climatic conditions (from the tropics to the alpine mountains), where it is confined to food, water and warm clothing. According to the Chinese army's command plan, such an approach should make a man an ideal soldier.
Special forces are armed with the latest technologies – from drones to virtual reality goggles and personal computers. A Chinese tracking system is being set up in the Chinese Special Forces for each individual soldier. The soldier receives equipment that, on the one hand, allows the commander to monitor the soldier's movement and, on the other hand, allows him (or his body) to be blown up when he threatens to fall into his hands. enemy.
Individual units of the armed forces train in the fight against men in the program of fighting without rules and also learn to use spears, machetes and other sharp weapons. This is especially true of units stationed in the demilitarized zone in Tibet.
Special forces units (both men and women) regularly demonstrate their skills at military parades. Before the parade in honor of the 70th anniversary of the founding of the People's Republic of China, the fighters underwent a multi-level training program. In the final phase, the units marched 8 hours a day and three hours a night.
To achieve perfect accuracy, the organizers of the show used laser rangefinders and gauges to detect a centimeter gap between the rows of soldiers. According to the Chinese media, such exercises are supposed to show the whole world the level of training and resilience of PLA soldiers.