Source: PLA Daily·China Military Number Author: Reporter of this newspaper Li Bingzheng Li Jianwen Special correspondent Liu Haiyang Correspondent Shan Jiaxin
Organize inspection before flight. Photo by Liu Zaiyu
Nowadays, various types of drone systems appear in large numbers, and unmanned combat is profoundly changing the landscape of war. We must strengthen research on unmanned combat, strengthen drone professional construction, strengthen practical education and training, and accelerate the cultivation of drone application and command talents.
—Xi Jinping
In the early morning, a drone patrolled among the sea of clouds and was waiting for battle.
"Flying eagle, strike the 'enemy' × tank." The exercise commander issued an order. In the remote control cabin on the ground, the flight operator quickly adjusted the angle and locked the target... The missile was launched from the drone and emitted a blazing tail flame.
accurate hit! As the first integrated drone unit of the entire army, a drone regiment of the Air Force Air Force once again achieved good results. With the east wind of reform and strengthening the army, this young team is getting richer and is waving towards the goal of "surveillance and attacking the pioneer".
"In 2015 and 2019, our regiment was fortunate to participate in the drone team, passed Tiananmen Square twice, and was honored to be reviewed by President Xi!" Growing up in the eyes of the commander, the officers and soldiers of the regiment were full of passion: Born for the battle, fly towards the battle, we have the confidence to complete the important tasks entrusted by the Party and the people at any time!
Flying towards the war, we must be willing to be a "pioneer" who lives up to the trust of the times -
"It's really a ten-year sharpening of a sword!" The reporter opened the album of "Deer Sky Eagle" compiled by the troupe, and the team's development history is touching.
In the process of reform and strengthening the army, the regiment moved from a prosperous city to defend the northwest desert and became the "seed force" of the air force's integrated drone investigation and attack.
rushes to the frontier, to the places where the motherland needs it most, and to the troops where new combat forces grow! Some of the officers and soldiers changed their registration route just after they got out of the company; some even took the train to carry equipment before they could tell their families... When they were studying for undergraduate degree at Tsinghua University, Huang Runkai was curious about the drone with "artificial + intelligence" wings. But as soon as I arrived at the military base, I saw the long yellow sand, and my heart was filled with turmoil.
desolate. In the initial days, since there was no new camp, everyone could only live in red brick and tile houses. The heat was unbearable in summer and the cold wind was like a knife in winter.
rises up. Without learning materials, no operational experience, and no training templates, facing brand new equipment, officers and soldiers tried every means to find materials to study and research. The fighter planes changed from "take me to fly" to "fly on behalf of me", and the difference between one word allows officers and soldiers of all professionals to start the "pioneering" mode. With the help of the manufacturer, they followed the research, trial and production, and were determined to break a new path.
A few months later, the "Maintenance Regulations", "Operation Manual", "Training Process" and other new ones were released. Holding the "textbook" they wrote, they achieved the goal of "selecting the assembly in the past, shooting in the past, and forming combat effectiveness in the past."
If you understand the value and significance of the career you are engaged in, you will love it even more. In recent years, a large number of officers and soldiers born in the 1990s have been willing to give up their superior life, take root in this desert, and soar in the vast sky on the unmanned battlefield.
Although the desert is far away, the heart is not desolate. Obtaining tickets to future wars has become the common voice of officers and soldiers.
At the end of 2021, when the group celebrated, " model of the era ", Li Hao, who was once the first batch of pilots of the group, sent a message to the old unit: "The waves of the times are shaking, and there is no hesitation. Since the times have chosen us, we will devote ourselves to the drone cause without hesitation!"
is flying towards the war, and we must dare to be the "trend players" who accelerate strategic transformation- —
"Since the 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, President Xi has inspected the Air Force many times to point out the direction for the strategic transformation of the Air Force." In the command cabin, the regiment political commissar Liu Jie told reporters, "How to transform the drone force is a topic that all officers and soldiers of the regiment are actively exploring." That year, the equipment was updated, the new aircraft was more intelligent and the operation was more difficult, which was a complete upgrade.How to "change feathers and fly high"? Jiang Haipeng, the then captain of the brigade, replied: "Get out of the 'cocoon' of thinking and let old experiences return to zero."
He and his comrades carefully studied recent local war cases, analyzed new combat concepts, and explored drone tactics.
" Brainstorm " time and time again, allowing Jiang Haipeng to accumulate confidence in winning the battle. During an exercise, the red and blue sides "fighted" hard to distinguish. At a critical moment, he volunteered to go to war.
's "supporting role" in the exercise field in the past took on the heavy responsibility at this time. Some commanders were skeptical: "Can you do it?"
was relayed at multiple drone ground stations, Jiang Haipeng and his comrades controlled it, accurately reconnaissed the frontier and deep targets of the Blue Army, and quickly called a certain type of fighter to attack. When the friendly aircraft was fully attacked and withdrew, Jiang Haipeng fired another missile with precise "finished" to achieve a fatal blow.
"This is the honor of the team." This experience of daring to make ends meet is a microcosm of the group's transformation path. They tried first in the unmanned battlefield, from "flying up" to "winning", from "fighting by yourself" to "system fighting", and crossing thousands of obstacles.
Eggs break from the outside are ingredients, and break from the inside is growth. In the past, when the regiment went out for training, the staff of the agency needed to follow the training. Sometimes the number of tasks in segmentation increases, and the staff is in short supply. To this end, they explored and implemented the team training model, narrowed the training units from the team to the team, optimized the force marshalling, and built a sensitive system module.
Aviation Electrician Zhou Zhijie, the Second Brigade, also serves as a staff officer, which is a reshaping of his personal knowledge and ability. Because he is familiar with the training situation of the brigade, the formulation of training plans, tactical action planning, and training dynamic monitoring are more targeted. At the beginning of this year, the brigade was awarded the second-class collective merit for its outstanding completion of the task.
"The tide of reform will not wait for the pace of confusion." Engineer Ni Guochen expressed this understanding stems from an embarrassing experience.
that day, he interpreted and reported the images he detected according to the convention. But the successive questions from his superiors made him sweat: "Why are there only the number of 'enemy' tanks? What about the model? What about the parameters..."
"War is the blind spot of the other party's cognitive ability, and simple and rough intelligence is difficult to meet the needs of the new battlefield." To this end, the regiment mobilized everyone to explore a wider discipline and reserve more abundant combat knowledge. Today, Ni Guochen has become "information and clearance".
can only stop the battle, and you can only be ready to fight if you are ready to fight. The more you cannot fight, the more you may be beaten. Thinking about the dialectics of war and peace, the regiment has honed and grown in practical training and has gradually become an elite in the air who "summons on the spot, and the call is a strike." In a major mission, they controlled the drone to fly continuously at high intensity, setting a historical record of the longest in space and the highest intensity, and reconnaissance and shooting high-value images.
The officers and soldiers were not satisfied with this. In the absence of route maps and meteorological data, they constantly challenged unfamiliar airspace and complex electromagnetic environments of -
. They successfully launched a certain type of missile at critical altitude and hit the target;
. They successfully achieved the first projection of a certain type of ammunition, providing experience reference for subsequent training.
Flying towards the battle, you must be a "hunter" who "wisdom" defeats the future aerospace -
The future battlefield, and do not want to become someone else's prey, you can only become a "hunter" first.
One exercise, the director team designated the mobile target temporarily. Deputy Captain Deng Yashu accurately manipulated and hit a single blow, winning a lot of prizes.
is so accurate, what are the tricks? Deng Yashu told reporters: "My brain, coupled with the increasingly powerful intelligent system of fighter jets, makes battlefield situation analysis and data calculation more intelligent."
hunting with wisdom, so that it can take action faster, more accurate and more ruthlessly in the future battlefield. However, how should the system respond when making wrong judgments?
That year, the War Eagle had just been equipped and there was a brake abnormality. As usual, we replaced new devices.Unexpectedly, there is no problem with the device, which is a logic error of the computer itself, which leads to signal feedback failure. Li Shaoxiao, the captain of the machining squadron, learned this experience: "Computers can issue instructions manually instead of manual instructions, but single-threaded thinking and mechanized troubleshooting methods cannot 'treat' intelligent equipment."
equipment is smarter, and the ultimate factor that decides to win is still human. Looking forward to the future intelligent operations, people must first "change their cores and replace their brains".
The regiment formed an equipment research group to focus on cutting-edge, serve war training, and promote the mutual transformation of theoretical achievements and practical experience. They regularly collect combat training equipment problems that grassroots teams cannot solve on their own, and conduct in-depth discussions with colleges, scientific research institutions and industrial departments, and work together to promote equipment improvement.
"We must strive to transform the aircraft's advantages into victory advantages." Yu Ruichao, chief of staff of the regiment, told reporters that as the application of drones becomes increasingly widespread, only by taking the initiative to plan for battle and research and explore innovative training models and combat theories can we be invincible.
The training department will organize the theoretical journal of drone combat, combining the combat requirements of superiors with the actual tasks, and the Party Committee will grasp the research direction of theoretical topics, and the backbone of each major will choose the topics and study them by themselves. Xu Zhen, editor-in-chief of the journal and pilot, said: "A fresh experience and paper are shining with the spark of the wisdom of officers and soldiers."
Information combat is about data and algorithms. Whoever has more data and adopts clever algorithms will be able to take the lead in the battlefield and seize the initiative.
"Through artificial intelligence and other technologies, the drone's battlefield situational awareness capabilities will be further improved." Recently, the equipment research team optimized data analysis and planned to jointly build an experimental platform and carry out data testing with the scientific research team of colleges and universities.
Bright moon rises Tianshan , among the vast sea of clouds. It was almost moonlit night after the interview. The reporter stood in front of a giant trajectory map of the regiment and counted their journey to the plateau, step on the border, enter dense forests, and patrol the sea. At this time, a drone returned to its nest lightly, and the airport gradually returned to peace, but the officers and soldiers' victory tracks continued...
Short comments
Create a powerful engine for the generation of new combat power
Since the 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, our military training has entered a new stage of all-round transformation and overall improvement. The "high-speed train" to reform and strengthen the army is bringing more and more new combat forces to a new "departure platform".
As a new type of combat force breaking out of the shell in the horn of reform, a drone regiment of the Air Force Aviation Corps ushered in unprecedented development opportunities. From "flying up" to "winning", from "fighting by yourself" to "system fighting", from the day of its establishment, the regiment has set a timetable to charge day and night in a countdown state: Explore and innovate training methods, tactics and means, study combat mechanisms and combat modes, and strive to seize the initiative and win the initiative in the future battlefield.
New combat forces are driven by new demand, supported by new technologies, and marked by new capabilities. They are the weather vane of military development in an era and a new growth point for the military's combat effectiveness. Only by studying and knowing how to win a battle can one know how to fight. Faced with the severe and complex situation of my country's national security and military struggle, new combat forces represented by air defense and anti-missile, special operations, electronic confrontation, information, etc. must firmly establish the concept of joint victory, deeply integrate into the joint combat system, enhance the high awareness of active joint and active actions, and achieve the clenched fingers into a fist, thereby driving the accelerated development of combat effectiveness construction.
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