After the recent Sino-Indian-South Tibet conflict was exposed, the strength of the two armies in the areas near the Sino-Indian border has attracted a lot of attention. One of the views is very interesting, that is, because the Indian-controlled southern Tibet area reaches 90,000 square kilometers, and its overall climatic conditions are better, the Indian army has deployed a large number of troops in southern Tibet, and the People's Liberation Army is at a disadvantage in military strength compared with the Indian army in southern Tibet.
Indian Army is currently in the eastern section, that is, the garrison of southern Tibet has a total of 4 troops and one division, namely the 4th Mountain Army, the 3rd Mountain Army, the 17th Mountain Army, the 33rd Mountain Army and the 23rd Independent Infantry Division of the Indian Army. In addition to other Indian armed forces, , the total force reached 200,000. Also in the eastern section, Western Theater Command mainly deploys 3 brigade-level combat units, namely 1 heavy synthetic brigade and 2 mountain combat brigades. In addition, our army's part of the border defense force in the eastern section has a total force of about 50,000. The comparison between the forces between China and India in southern Tibet is 1:4, and our army is indeed at a disadvantage in terms of force.
This situation has been used by the Indian government for a long time in the past to promote it. India believes that with its huge military advantage, even if the Indian army cannot seize more actual control area, there is still no problem blocking the People's Liberation Army's attack. Because the Indian army's armored combat forces are mainly deployed in the western section, the eastern section uses permanent fortifications and towed artillery regiments as the main combat forces. In the entire eastern section of the Indian Army, there was only one tank brigade, a total of 108 main battle tanks and 60 BMP-2 infantry fighting vehicles. It lacked offensive capabilities, but had strong defensive capabilities.
If the Eastern Section Indian Army is split with Mountain Division as the combat unit, then the Eastern Section Indian Army has a total of 12 mountain divisions, each mountain infantry division has 3 mountain infantry brigades and 1 mountain artillery brigade. In other words, the Eastern Section Indian Army had a total of about 36 mountain infantry brigades and 12 mountain artillery brigades. The Indian Army’s mountain infantry brigade is the same as our army’s synthetic battalion . There is no regiment-level command structure below the brigade, only 3 mountain infantry battalions and 1 mountain artillery battalion. In order to ensure mobility, this mountain artillery battalion is generally only equipped with mortars and , and does not even have light towed artillery.
In order to ensure mobility, the Indian Army's mountain artillery brigade was only equipped with 105mm caliber towing artillery. The 4th Mountain Army and the 3rd Mountain Army have strong artillery combat power, each equipped with an army-level 155mm artillery regiment and equipped with 24 FH-77B type 155mm towed howitzers. In other words, the large caliber artillery of the Indian army in the eastern section is 48 FH-77B. As for the K-9 self-propelled artillery imported from South Korea, it is classified as the combat force of the armored force , and is equipped with the Western Section Indian Army and the Central Section Indian Army.
In view of the actual situation of the Southern Indian Army in Tibet, the Western Theater Command Army began to greatly increase the proportion of equipment for technical weapons when the number of troops on the front line was not prevailing. The most obvious thing is artillery equipment. The construction of the army artillery in the Western Theater Command shows very obvious characteristics of large-caliber and long-range. When the range has been met, the long-range rocket launcher troops began to emphasize their ability to strike against meter-level targets. The conventional 155mm body tube artillery was originally relatively high in strike accuracy, so they began to pursue further improvement in range and began to expand the usage ratio of bottom-mounted bombs and rocket extended-range bombs .
While India was crazily hyping the conflict in southern Tibet, the People's Liberation Army also began to bring its unmanned combat equipment to the field. Recently, a synthetic division of the Southern Xinjiang Military Region, which uses southern Tibet as one of the main imaginary battlefields, directly displayed its unmanned tank when participating in the plateau joint combat drill. In addition to a small caliber cannon, this unmanned tank is also equipped with 2 bazooka and 2 "Red Arrow-73D" anti-tank missiles. Compared with the early "Red Arrow-73" anti-tank missiles, the current "Red Arrow-73D" armor-breaking depth has been increased to 800 mm, and its control wire is as long as 3,000 meters.Its characteristic is that it is cheap. The foreign trade version of "Red Arrow-73E" system is only priced at RMB 360,000, and the price of an missile, is RMB 56,000. It is also because of this that our army currently mainly uses it to attack various targets such as fortifications. This time, the unmanned tank of a synthetic division of the Southern Xinjiang Military Region carried two "Red Arrow-73D" anti-tank missiles, which was obviously to "open cans" for various permanent fortifications of the Southern Indian Army.
Unmanned Combat Vehicle is actually just a part of our army's unmanned combat system. In this live-fire exercise by a synthetic division in the Southern Xinjiang Military Region, its combat mode is to clear obstacles by unmanned vehicles, and then use the drone "bee swarm" to attack the target by suicide. The synthesis division even used the unmanned helicopter that threw mortar shells to carry the 95 rifle to simulate the precise point killing of enemy individual targets. This combat mode is obviously very suitable for dealing with the southern Tibetan and Indian army, which has the advantage in military strength. If the Indian army really dares to provoke, then the People's Liberation Army can teach the Indian army how to fight a modern unmanned war.
Although the current domestic media reports on our army's unmanned combat equipment mainly focus on various lethal unmanned combat equipment, in fact, our army has also achieved considerable achievements in the construction of other unmanned combat equipment. In a recent medical exercise, a brigade of the 82nd Group of the People's Liberation Army directly used rescue drones and unmanned armored ambulances to simulate the rescue operations of the wounded in the enemy fire environment on the battlefield. This type of unmanned equipment is also an advanced equipment that the Southern Indian Army can expect.
Unmanned Armored Ambulance
Aid UAV
What is more interesting is that the rescue UAV used by the 82nd Army was modified from the GQ-680 reconnaissance drone of the Aerospace Corporation. The original GQ-680 reconnaissance drone was able to carry 8 missiles to perform air-to-ground strike missions. After modification, a wounded person lying on a stretcher can be transported, with a maximum load capacity of 260 kilograms. I just don’t know whether it has modular modification capabilities, and can flexibly switch between the detection and attack integrated drone and the rescue drone.
GQ-680 detection drone
Overall, whether it is the future island landing operations in the southeast coastal areas or the plateau combat in the Sino-Indian border areas. Our army has now regarded unmanned operations as an important exploration and development direction. Previously, the Air Force's early warning aircraft, , had achieved command of the Air Force's integrated reconnaissance and attack drones and reconnaissance drones. It is not clear whether the Air Force drones can directly command the Army's unmanned combat equipment.
If this combat effect can be achieved, it will further enhance our army's unmanned combat capabilities. If the Indian army is still obsessed with it, it will be just right for the Indian army to open its eyes.
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