Chinese army ends exercise involving long-range manoeuvers
Dated 14/9/2006
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The Chinese People's Liberation Army (PLA) concluded its first military exercise involving long-range manoeuvers Thursday with a 'combat' exercise deep in China's inner Mongolia Autonomous Region.
The 'Red Army', a mechanised infantry brigade from the Shenyang military area command that had trekked more than 1,000 km to the combat area, launched a fierce attack on the positions of the 'Blue Army' - an armored brigade from the Beijing military area command.
In the combat stage, the opposing forces explored new methods of training mechanised troops, combat tactics, pooling training resources, optimising the organisation of combat forces and shortening the period of formation of combat forces.
Anti-jamming operations were conducted to nullify the effect of electromagnetic jamming and attacks on computer networks were met by computer defense networks.
The exercise, which began on Sep 5 in the garrison area of a mechanised infantry brigade in China's Liaoning province, comprised four stages, namely emergency battle preparation, long-range manoeuvers, operational preparation and combat.
