Aircraft of an aviation unit of
the Nanjing Military Area Command on combat readiness duty during
the Spring Festival.
The fighters doing the loops and rolls at 10,000m over the sea
suddenly swooped down in high-speed dive to less than 100m before
they skimmed above the sea waves. This is a spectacular scene the
reporters saw recently at an exercise staged over the sea by a
fighter regiment of the air force of the Nanjing Military Area
Command.
In future air battles over the sea, the air fleet on long-range
raid mission are easy to be picked up by "enemy" radars.
In view of this fact, this regiment has, in its training,
prioritized "stealth" drill of its fighter planes and pilots under
complex electromagnetic environment, and on the basis of skillfully
grasping ultra low-altitude flying technique, the pilots were also
required to study and drill on penetration tactics so as to
gradually build up the ultra low-altitude, long-duration and
long-range penetration capability of its fighter formations.
With this objective in mind, this regiment has intensified the
ultra low-altitude flying training since the kick-off of the annual
training program this year.
So far it has organized confrontational exercises in partnership
with radar troops, and also organized emergency ferrying flight,
maximum range flight and maximum combat radius flight in strange
air spaces in raining and foggy days or other changeable weather
conditions. In this way it has effectively boosted the long-range
trans-regional mobile operational capability of its troops.
(PLA Daily February 26, 2007)
