The first military exercise involving long-range maneuvers by
the Chinese People's Liberation Army ended on Thursday morning with
a 'combat' exercise in the grasslands of north China's Inner
Mongolia Autonomous Region.
The 'Red Army', a mechanized infantry brigade from the Shenyang
Military Area Command had traveled more than 1,000 kilometers to
the combat area and launched a fierce attack on the positions of
the 'Blue Army' - an armored brigade from the Beijing Military Area
Command.
Combat vehicles including tanks, self-propelled artillery and
armed infantry vehicles moved swiftly through the smoke of the
combat zone.?
Anti-jamming operations were conducted to halt the effect of
electromagnetic jamming, attacks on computer networks were met by
computer defense systems and shells launched by various forms of
artillery crisscrossed in the sky. Tank units engaged in a 'battle'
using laser systems.
(Xinhua News Agency September 15, 2006)
