Xinjiang Military Region division 4000 meters plateau night training

4000 meters above sea level over the Karakorum plateau, cold beating in the darkness. Suddenly, the earth trembled, a shells across the night sky, the fire Yinghong the tip of the canyon. In recent days, a certain division of the Xinjiang Military District troops on the plateau at night to explore new methods of operation, fire fighting groups in highland cold areas under the conditions of strong electromagnetic interference to achieve the first group coverage, first hit the 19 kinds of firearms.




Cold plateaus big temperature difference between day and night, night with strong winds and more snow, heat characteristics of weapons and equipment more obvious, long-term constraints to improve the quality of night training. Outline of the division in accordance with the new requirements of organizations dozen weapons and equipment is completed at night camouflage spray performance tests, combined with an artillery battalion, howitzer unit firing flares at night, study and solve the lighting unit and attack combat unit synergies, but also explored a certain type of raid to capture low-light-level tanks, artillery live-fire target shooting, a certain type of anti-tank missiles fired on the dim light of the characteristics and laws of the target has accumulated tens of thousands of actual performance data.

Cold highland area for night operations forces easily exposed, infiltration behind enemy lines, fire difficult to carry out reconnaissance, battlefield information is difficult to obtain and other issues, the broad division launched the "concealment and camouflage, blinding light, heat interference", such as training, research explored a "radical fast paste, forced a breakthrough" and other 12 kinds of effective methods of operation.