Malaysia once filmed a military action film "paskal" based on real events, based on its Royal Navy special forces "Pascal", Chinese translated as "Naval Special Operations Force", and veteran drivers can find their own resources online. The film was strongly supported by the Malaysian military during filming, which is remarkable in terms of professionalism and authenticity, and also allows us to peek into the leopard and understand this mysterious elite force in Malaysia.
"Pascal" was established in 1975, since its inception has been widely exchanged and learned with domestic and foreign special forces, has been with the British Special Air Service Regiment (SAS), the British Special Boat Team (sbs), the United States SEAL (seal) to maintain a close relationship, here and the SEALs have the deepest impact on it, it can be said that it is a copy of the small SEAL, sea artery defense, island and reef control, maritime anti-terrorism, interspersed infiltration, underwater mine clearance, Training subjects such as high-altitude fixed-point parachutes can see the US military's operational thinking and operational guidelines. So far, the mission and mission of "Pascal" has been expanded into five categories: unconventional warfare, domestic and foreign defense, direct operations, anti-terrorism operations, and special reconnaissance, and has the ability to independently carry out land, sea, and air amphibious operations in waters controlled by enemy countries. Southern Malaysia is the strait of Malacca, the throat of the world's shipping lanes, with more than 4,100 kilometers of coastline, islands and reefs and sandbars are even more numerous, and there are still maritime territorial disputes with its neighbors, and pascal's existence is like a sharp blade in Malaysia's sea, pointing where it is needed.
One of the "Pascal" units is deployed at the Sepanga Naval Base in Sabah, near the southern part of the South China Sea, and is specially used against the People's Liberation Army, which is an imaginary enemy. Because of the mystery of "Pascal", the outside world does not know much about it, and this film exposes some of the real strength of the unit, which has a reference effect.
At the beginning of the film, a wonderful vbss operation is staged, which truly recreates a pirate hijacking of the "Osmanthus" freighter in the early morning of January 20, 2011, which Pascal foiled in the gulf of Aden. In the film, the Malaysian domestic emergency command uses the communication network to exchange information with the escort formation in real time, and at the same time issues a series of orders, showing the strong intelligence support capabilities of the Malaysian Navy, and can also clearly see the command mode of the escort formation to carry out the rescue operation of the ship at sea. When the commando team carries out the rescue operation, it takes a high-speed interception boat and helicopter, implements the principle of ship control and reinforcement, combination of virtual and real, and limited firepower, snipers, demolition men, and commandos can exert force at key nodes, the helicopter's night closed light flight, the demolitionist's confirmation of whether other team members are safe before blasting, the sniper's use of special hatch slings as a support object, and the details of the hostage control inspection after the operation, all of which can reflect the professionalism of this unit.
But there are also two deficiencies in the rescue process. First, the lack of necessary reconnaissance, the escort formation before the assault operation did not use the equipment advantage to reconnoiter the freighters and pirates, the battlefield situation is not very clear; the commando team did not carry the necessary reconnaissance equipment when searching the cabin, resulting in the commandos at the door of the breaking moment were strafed by pirates hiding in the shadows. Second, the helicopter sniper performance is too exaggerated, it is too difficult to take the plane at night to snipe at sea mobile targets, the sniper kills the pirate with one shot, the bullet hits the pirate and damages part of the mother ship deck, the pirate is scared back, this plot is not as good as continuing to use the door machine gun to carry out fire surface killing on the mother ship, the effect is better, and the tactical application is more reasonable.
The second fierce battle is the key to driving the final direction of the film, and it is also the place where the tactical details of the whole film are most flawed. As United Nations military observers, the 3 commandos rescued civilians with their bare hands and retreated from the militants, and after taking the initial initiative, they did not continue to observe and wait for reinforcements, but returned to the battlefield again, completely exposed their unarmed intelligence to the militants, broke the balance, and directly attracted 5 militants to shoot at close range, and miraculously no one hit. There were only two reinforcements waiting for, and after the assault vehicle was attacked by RPG, the on-board machine gun operator directly got out of the car and huddled together with the driver to fight, voluntarily abandoning a powerful suppressive fire.
Jeb took off the reinforcement's pistol and fired a frantic fire at the militants using the rifle, but there was no movement to change the magazine, and the 3 people were crowded together again. Jeb threw the grenade instead of loosening the safety grip as he had done on the boat, leaving time for the militants to throw the fuse back. At that time, the battlefield was an open space, not a confined space, and since Joshua could push the civilians away, this time was enough for two people to lie down in reverse to avoid the funnel-like killing range of the grenade, but he chose to pounce on the grenade. After Joshua fell to the ground, Jeb took a pistol and rushed forward through the smoke screen, killing the militants like a god of war, and the battle ended.
Throughout the battle, we can't see the tactical cooperation, tactical application, and temporary disposal of the commandos, nor can we see the composure and calmness that the commandos should have, and they have been swayed by feelings, so that the plot and tactics arranged in this way show that the commandos are not level, which is the biggest failure in the movie.
Oman determined Jeb's purpose through some details, the command was urgently deployed, and the various functional departments of the state cooperated with each other to quickly capture half of the pirates, alleviating the follow-up pressure. The commandos quickly ended their vacation, asked for equipment, aerial delivery, parachute infiltration, sea positioning, frogman delivery in one go, staged a wonderful aerial, surface, underwater maneuver relay, and successfully approached the drilling platform. Before the commandos boarded the platform, there was a continuous information briefing, and the assault tactics were adjusted in a timely manner, the pirates were mobilized in disguise, and the soldiers entered covertly in two ways. After boarding the platform, the commandos' positioning, vigilance, coordination, approach, control point, guidance, search, penetration, defense, counterattack, melee, clean-up and other tactical actions are wonderful, which is simply a visual feast of cqb, and the replacement of pistol magazines during the fight between commandos and pirates is also a highlight. The use of equipment such as wall-piercing radar and muzzle fixers has effectively improved the efficiency of the entire operation. The last two people's white-knife fighting scenes can also be remarkable, control lock fighting, fist to flesh, knife and knife to blood, no fancy and redundant actions, are real "life and death fights".
The finale is brilliant, but there are also problems. Performing tasks in such confined spaces without carrying night vision goggles, the commandos fell into passivity after the platform lights were turned off by Jeb. Aman was not calm enough after finding the hostages, and rushed to the danger to trigger the mine first, and then found Lily and then had the same problem, and was threatened by Jeb. Oman found the bomb during the search, but did not share the information in time, resulting in the death of the commandos who came to reinforce. After the pirate leader escaped, the commando team killed the pirate leader by means of high-speed interception at sea, but before this, the intention was to use the sniper to snipe the high-speed moving target at sea at a large angle, the difficulty can be imagined, this plot is a bit redundant, wasting precious pursuit time.
It is reported that the tactical arrangement in the film has received strong support from "Pascal" and special personnel have been sent to guide. However, judging from the tactical level shown in the film, there are many flaws, but the overall gap with the Navy SEALs is very large. However, it is interesting that some of the crew who shot the film also participated in the filming of China's blockbuster movie "Red Sea Action". "Operation Red Sea" is based on the "Jiaolong Commando" of the special forces of the People's Liberation Army Navy. These two forces have similar functions and are sharp knives for the two countries to safeguard maritime interests, but the PLA's "Jiaolong Commando" may be able to easily defeat this opponent.
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About the author of the public account: Wang Zhengxing, a former officer of a field unit of the People's Liberation Army, has served in infantry detachments, headquarters, logistics departments and other units, is committed to the study of war history and tactics, and has a unique understanding of military tactics and non-war operations. His book "This is War" was recommended in two issues in May and June 2014 by Phoenix TV's "Eight Minutes of Open Volume" column. His public account name is also "This is war", welcome to pay attention