Author: Sima Nan Channel Xiaoguan
According to the China News Network, a medium-sized composite battalion under a certain unit of the People's Liberation Army recently launched a military exercise of "running for a thousand miles" on the Sichuan Plateau at an altitude of 4,800 meters. Judging from the scene screen, the ministry can be described as elite. In addition to the newly unveiled 122 mm self-propelled rocket launcher, there are other heavy artillery weapons. Because the medium-sized composite battalion relies on wheeled motor vehicles to carry out operations, its motorization ability is very outstanding, relying on China's extensive road network to carry out long-distance combat tasks. Some analysts have pointed out that the Western Sichuan Plateau is located on the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau, and the next step forward is the confrontation area on the Sino-Indian border. The INTENTION OF THE PLA to carry out such a drill is obviously to let India know the strength of the PLA's "printing".
Unlike a full-strength brigade of more than 3,000 people in the Indian Army, a medium-sized composite brigade of the People's Liberation Army has more than 5,000 officers. Due to its strong maneuverability, a medium-sized composite brigade can maneuver more than a thousand miles in one night. According to the comprehensive configuration of a medium-sized composite brigade of the People's Liberation Army at present, in addition to the 36 large-caliber artillery pieces of the brigade's artillery battalion, the battalion-affiliated fire company and company-affiliated artillery are also equipped with weapons such as large-caliber mortars and rapid-fire guns, and the brigade can directly use more than a hundred cannons. Relying on the advantage of being mobilized at any time, such a synthetic brigade can be transferred to the border at any time to participate in "printing". Moreover, the medium composite brigade also has a special brigade equipped with helicopters, which can play an important role in decapitation, sabotage and reconnaissance at critical moments. In contrast, a brigade of the Indian army is equipped with no more than 60 artillery pieces, and all of them rely on the pull of personnel and vehicles to pull old artillery, and cannot reach the plateau or hit the PLA artillery positions.
At the present stage, India is determined to "continue to make trouble" in the Sino-Indian border area. According to the latest news, at present, India has placed all the advanced weapons in the country near the Sino-Indian border area, and the Rafale fighter purchased by France, the M777 ultralight towed howitzer of the United States, and the K-9 self-propelled gun of South Korea have all been in place. In terms of the number of troops, the Indian army has deployed 103,000 permanent armed forces in and around the front-line confrontation area alone. The second and third fronts exceeded 300,000 people, about half of the entire Chinese Army. However, the armament configuration of the Indian army is very bad, the old weapons in the troops are too heavy to climb the plateau at an altitude of more than 4200 meters, and the artillery mainly relied on by the Indian army in the front-line confrontation area is actually the M777 ultralight howitzer of 3 regiments, and its total number is only 54. Although the People's Liberation Army on the opposite side does not have such a large number of troops in the front-line confrontation zone, it has superior firepower in quantity and quality that far exceeds that of the Indian army several times.
Modern warfare is no longer the era of "number of people is firepower, firepower is superiority", the emergence of digital combat systems so that troops in the establishment of combat personnel in the case of reduced combat personnel, can still obtain several times the firepower of the past, which is why the PLA in streamlining personnel, upgrading scientific and technological weapons, the combat effectiveness does not drop but rises. Although the Indian army seems to be huge in terms of personnel, in fact, there are many drawbacks such as bloated structure, weak logistical support, backward firepower units, insufficient individual combat skills, and poor commander level. Some foreign institutions have made a calculation with reference to the past conflicts between the Chinese and Indian armies and in light of the actual situation of the current level of weapons of the Chinese and Indian armies. As a result, the PLA only needed 3-4 composite brigades, with the cooperation of aviation and missile units, to crush the huge troops of the Indian Army head-on. If 6-7 more composite brigades were added, the elite troops of the Indian army in several lines of defense on the Sino-Indian border could be annihilated.
It is difficult to imagine that foreign institutions would make such a deduction, but this is true. During the Gulf War, the U.S.-led coalition forces also did not have an advantage in strength, but in the case of ground force mobility and aviation fire support, and precision strikes by missile forces, the Iraqi army collapsed, and the coalition forces sailed straight into Baghdad. And this situation now applies equally to the Chinese and Indian armies. India's domestic terrain environment is very special, in addition to the area near the border has lofty mountains, inland this is a plain of the Pingchuan River, which is the best place to play for firepower superiority, and it is also the most unacceptable slaughtering ground for the Indian army. Therefore, this time the PLA held a fully formed attack exercise of the composite brigade, which is not only to beat the combat skills of the troops, but also to remind India that we can move a medium-sized composite brigade to important areas at any time. If that's not enough, you can continue to increase the adjustment.