I believe that everyone knows the "flying pigeon book", the pigeon is a strong sense of direction of the animal, it is by the geomagnetism to navigate, trained professional carrier pigeon to put it thousands of miles away, it can also find its own home. Therefore, in costume dramas, we often see pigeons who help deliver the news. Among our troops, there is such a special unit, which trains not military dogs, but military pigeons, and today we will visit the last army pigeon unit of the whole army.
The military pigeon is the signal soldier in the army, which can be used to transmit intelligence, and China is one of the first countries to use the military pigeon. In the era of underdeveloped science and technology, training military pigeons still has a certain significance. It's just that information and communication are so developed now, a phone call and a satellite communication can realize information transmission, why does our army still have a military pigeon unit? We should first understand the basic situation of the troops, which is the Guilin Joint Logistics Support Center's military pigeon team stationed in a certain base in Yunnan, which was the first place to domesticate military pigeons, and now it is also the only special unit of our army.
The first time the army pigeon team was in 1950 when our comrades went to the Soviet Union to learn the domestication of military pigeons, and when they returned, they began to form their own army pigeon team. Through breeding, training and actual combat, China's military pigeon team has raised more than 50 varieties of military pigeons from more than 30 countries and regions. Military pigeons may be more difficult to domesticate than military dogs, because they are more disturbed by the flight in the sky, and the tasks performed by military pigeons are also difficult to complete by traditional communication, using their homing ability and super environmental adaptability, in the emergency communication support, the role of military pigeons is irreplaceable.
Although the army has entered the information age, in actual combat, all electronic communications may be destroyed and interfered with. It would be foolish to be destroyed in this way alone, so the role of the military pigeon is manifested. For example, when a serious natural disaster occurs with our country, all communications are interrupted, and the military pigeons can enter the disaster center, pass on the news, let the people outside know the internal situation, and formulate a rescue plan. Therefore, in the position of the signal blind spot, the military pigeon will not be affected, and our country will always retain this unit, and these little guys can also make a miracle at a critical moment.