source from China Military Network
For the officers and soldiers of the "Linfen Brigade" who are known for fighting tough and bad fights, the night confrontation exercise three years ago was no different from a "brainstorm." The bitter lesson is like a head-bump, and the officers and soldiers of this brigade deeply reflect: The night battle is not a "replica" of the day battle. If you use the thinking of yesterday to grasp the night training, you will definitely not be able to win the night battle tomorrow. How to solve the problem?
The "Liberation Army Daily" published today takes you to the investigation and thinking of the 71st Army's "Linfen Brigade" innovative night training model to promote night combat capability.
Liang Chen/painted
took off his helmet and lost a battle
■People's Liberation Army Daily reporter Dai Feng correspondent Zhang Changxu Wei
The night is like ink, somewhere in southern Jiangsu, the 71st Group Army "Linfen Brigade" formation company live ammunition at night The drill is in full swing.
fights and enters a stalemate state. Sergeant Hao Jinxu was ordered to lead the special operations team to covertly penetrate and remove the firepower of the "enemy" bunker.
Unexpectedly, they were killed one by one by the "enemy" as soon as they approached the target. Immediately, the director's department sent a notification: All 5 members of the special operations team were "dead".
Helpless, the company commander Liu Fei had no choice but to bite the bullet and command the large forces to face head-on with the "enemy". As the battle progressed, the Red side suffered heavy losses.
"During the action, we didn't dare to lay heavy feet on the ground. Why would we be exposed if we were so cautious?" Hao Jinxu was puzzled. During the rehearsal, the blue commander broke the mystery: our thermal imaging camera caught a floating heat source behind the mound, which disappeared after a few seconds, and then comprehensively analyzed and judged based on other information to lock in the special battle of the red side. group.
went back to investigate the cause and found the crux. When the red special forces team received the "enemy", it sometimes leaped quickly, sometimes evacuated and concealed, and everyone was sweating profusely. When concealed behind a mound, the soldier Xiao Li's head itchy unbearably, thinking that it is safe to cover with the mound, he took off his helmet and wiped his sweat. In the lower temperature, the heat from Xiao Li quickly formed a mist-like heat source above his head, which inadvertently became Lan Fang's "alarm". In the
TV series "Soldiers Assault", Gangqi Company participated in a superior exercise. Xu Sanduo carried two hot eggs on a concealed position, but was caught by the thermal imaging camera of the "Blue Army" aerial helicopter and was defeated.
No one thought that the plot in the TV series "Soldier Assault" would be staged in reality. Hao Jinxu told reporters that in order to prevent the "enemy" night vision equipment from reconnaissance, they made careful preparations. They wore anti-infrared camouflage suits on their bodies and covered their helmets with anti-infrared camouflage hats. The helmet scratched with sweat.
took off his helmet and lost a battle. The brigade staff conducted a live demonstration for night training officers and soldiers: a lit cigarette butt several kilometers away at night looked like a small sun through infrared night vision. On the information battlefield, "unexpected" means that there are loopholes, and any loopholes can be fatal.
Details determine success or failure. The brigade party committee members followed the vine and found that there were a lot of non-actual details on the night training field: the use of light sticks to mark the minefield passages reduced the probability of their own personnel stepping on the mines by mistake, but it was tantamount to indicating the target for the opponent Some officers and soldiers do not have a strong conception of the enemy. The kettle is filled with hot water when lurking at night, which can easily be captured by the opponent’s night vision equipment... The problem of
is not limited to details. The brigade is digging into details and discovering: due to low visibility at night and targets There are many hidden safety hazards such as difficulty in capturing and low shooting rate. In some grassroots units, night training "is the key to speaking, difficult to do, and weakness to check"; some do not pay attention to the research of future night battle topics, thinking in their heads "Yesterday’s night battle" is still being practiced, and the "old tricks" handed down from generation to generation are still being practiced...
"These phenomena seem to be false training styles, but from a deeper level, they are deviations in night training guidance concepts. No night training was designed as a night battle.” Liu Yong, the brigade commander, said that if you want to win the initiative in the future night battle, you must first break the conceptual “night barrier”. If your mind does not break through, it will be difficult to break through the night battle.
Eat a ditch and gain wisdom. Since the start of the training this year, the officers and soldiers of the brigade have learned lessons about what conditions should be established for the unit's night live-fire exercises, how to conduct training, and focused on exploring and practicing, updating the concept of night combat, and initially showing a training path to improve the unit's night combat capability.
Since the start of the training this year, the 71st Army "Linfen Brigade" has organized and strengthened its night live ammunition exercises, pulling the troops to complex and unfamiliar areas for "beyond shooting" course training, Let the officers and soldiers experience the feeling of a neutron bullet flying overhead in actual combat. Zhang Haihui photo
How to fight tomorrow’s night battle
——The 71st Army "Linfen Brigade" innovative night training model promotes night combat ability investigation and thinking
■Liberation Army News reporter Dai Feng special reporter Dai Qiang Correspondent Chen Fei
Night combat is not day combat "Replica" of "Linfen Brigade", using yesterday’s thinking to grasp night training, unable to win tomorrow’s night battle
For the officers and soldiers of the "Linfen Brigade" who are known for fighting tough and bad fights, the night confrontation exercise 3 years ago was no different "Brainstorming". A company of
coordinated with the tactics of "attacking the hilltops" during the day and decisively ordered "small groups to alternately cover assaults." As a result, due to the darkness, officers and soldiers frequently strayed into the minefield and suffered a great loss. The painful lesson of
is like a headshot, and the officers and soldiers of this brigade deeply reflect: "Night fighting is not a'replica' of day fighting. Using yesterday's thinking to grasp night training will definitely not be able to win tomorrow's night fighting."
must first win the initiative in future night battle Break the conceptual "night barrier" and find the crux of night training difficulties. As a result, they dug in depth and sorted out difficult problems such as night battle reconnaissance, command and control, precision strikes, camouflage protection, and comprehensive support. These problems are like "blocking the way", stopping the night training. How to solve the
problem? The brigade has done a good job of system design with battle leadership training, incorporating night training into the overall annual, phase, monthly, and weekly plans, distinguishing four key points: common, professional, team, and company platoon, and sorted out 38 common courses for individual soldiers in the combined battalion. 13 key subjects for teams and 6 typical subjects for company platoon tactics, from individual soldiers to organizational companies, from combat to support, and various majors, a full-staff, full-element, full-equipment, and full-process night combat and night training training system has been constructed. Realize the "revision and upgrade" of night training content.
Infantry company night airborne operations, infantry company night special combat operations... More than 10 night courses follow the "curriculum" of continuous night training for advanced soldiers.
Coastal beach roads, floating bridges, minefields, and railway crossings entered the night training ground of the car detachment in turn. Squad leader Li, who had been driving smoothly at night, suddenly realized that he could not drive.
In the brigade officer training center, army aviation, air force, and navy comrades were also invited into the night training class of the agency, and everyone discussed the combat composition, timing, scale, steps, intensity and action methods of night joint fire strikes in different combat operations. ……
how to fight in the night battle, how to practice the soldiers. During an exercise not long ago, the reporter saw that after motorized maneuvers and marching on foot, officers and soldiers arrived at the intended area. Not waiting for everyone to breathe, the "enemy situation" announcements followed one after another. Vigilance camouflage, battlefield reconnaissance, battle organization...
drill ended, 4 items including emergency dispatch, maneuver assembly, battle organization and battle implementation, only 2 items were qualified. In this regard, the brigade political commissar Liao Wensheng said frankly: "Although the results are'not good', everyone understands that night training must be practiced according to the routine of fighting. Only this kind of training can develop the true ability to win night battles."
"Strike hard" does not mean "precise strike". Using data thinking to improve night training benefits
One night in mid-September last year, a series of red and blue offensive and defensive confrontations started in a mountainous area in the eastern suburbs of Jinling.
was struck by dark clouds and mixed with drizzle, and the battlefield was dark at night. In order to indicate the target to the shooter, company commander Liu Fei decisively ordered a certain type of mortar to fire flares.
"Load and launch with one shot!" With the order of the mortar squad leader Ma Liqiang, the "enemy" front position was instantly bright as daylight, and the officers and soldiers quickly searched for the target with the light.
30 seconds later, the second flare was launched again. Surprisingly, there was a few seconds of darkness between the two flares, and some shooters who failed to lock the target had to search for the target again...
Ma Liqiang was very confused: the instructions for this type of flares clearly stated lighting. The duration, firing the second flares at 30 second intervals is theoretically correct, but there are problems in actual combat.
"Theoretical data must also be tested by gun smoke." Ma Taiping, chief of staff of the brigade, said that due to the influence of different weather, terrain, and ground features, the night use effect of equipment and equipment is quite different from the theoretical value. "Does not mean "precise hitting."
To this end, the brigade adopted the methods of "theoretical calculation, actual installation (live ammunition) experiment, comparative analysis, and actual combat demonstration", focusing on improving the "reconnaissance, control, combat, security, and defense" capabilities, and set different weather, lighting, and terrain conditions. ,CorrectDozens of equipment in 5 categories, including night vision, reconnaissance, communications, firearms, and lighting, have been tested for effectiveness. Hundreds of data have been collected, and the "Effective Experiment Manual for Unit Night Combat Equipment and Equipment" has been sorted out, and the combat unit has been issued as " "Accurate beat" provides scientific basis.
held a certain type of mortar night combat effectiveness experiment manual, squad leader Ma Liqiang lamented that with the support of accurate combat data, night combat will be more powerful, and the next battle will surely be clear and wonderful.
"There is a low wall 300 meters from the front left. Two rockets..." The reporter saw in the night exercise field that under accurate calculations, the "enemy" forward targets were knocked out one by one, and every line of defense was successfully breached. Zhu Xu, the chief of the training section, said that now, the effectiveness test data has been detailed to every weapon and equipment carried by the officers and soldiers. Everyone can understand and use them at a glance. The officers and soldiers can formulate tactics and strategies based on this. Give full play to the effectiveness of weapons and equipment, and make data truly become a combat power "multiplier".
"Hit a total of × individual targets, × bunker targets, × artillery targets..." As soon as the exercise is over, various hit and damage data are quickly entered into the information collection summary table, and the brigade fire department refers to the previous night efficiency experiment data , To further sort out various data.
strengthened training, supervision and accountability, and attacked "peace accumulation", "stuck" and did not practice training wind, and found the right path to let the night training "battle"
. Set various elements, accurately cover the target area, and then quickly transfer, the whole process "smoothly and smoothly". Does
practice training or acting well? The brigade leader designated a firing position by the plane, but the shooting process continued unexpectedly.
trace the root cause. It turned out that in order to ensure 100% safety, the squad prepared several reserve positions during the day, and calculated the target in advance, but it was messed up after moving to a strange position.
The road at night is difficult, adding a bit of safety pressure and worry; the night is as dark as ink, covering up how much training is not true. The brigade leader "a group of people" learned from the pain: from training to war, it is by no means easy to achieve it with gongs and drums. Only by hardening your wrists and "stuck" without training wind can you find the right path for night training Really "war". The reporter from
came to the newly reconstructed night training field of the brigade and saw that there were more than 100 targets in 5 categories, including individual soldiers, fortifications, armor, artillery positions, and firepower points. The enemy's situation became real. According to Ma Cong, deputy chief of staff of the
brigade, when they fired live ammunition, they used different methods such as flashing, bonfire and heat source display to set up no less than 3 sets of display schemes in each target area, and displayed various targets on the fly, forcing the unit to "discover by itself" Targets, self-distribution of ammunition, and self-selection of positions" complete the night live ammunition inspection.
went from training to war, facing many risks and challenges. A certain type of individual rocket has never fired live ammunition at night after being equipped with a unit. The original training syllabus is also blank for this subject. Do you want to fight? Can you fight? Is it safe? This has become a "scratching head" for the officers and soldiers.
Dangerous subjects will never be bypassed. Winning is the greatest "safety". The brigade leaders made a decision: the brigade party committee took the responsibility if something went wrong. As a result, they made their own low-light lighting equipment and successfully carried out live ammunition shooting of this type of equipment at night, which effectively improved the individual night fire assault capabilities. With the support of brigade leaders, this type of equipment used blasting at night to pass more than 10 difficult subjects one by one.
Strengthening training, supervision and accountability, and letting those with unrealistic styles feel the "pain" is another way the brigade has used the night training style. They formulated and issued the "Regulations for the Implementation of Correct Training and Examination Styles", and established a night training monitoring team with brigade supervisory cadres, battalion supervisory teams, and platoon supervisors.
night battle night battle, the key is to fight. UAVs quickly capture and identify night targets, and the scouts use Beidou handhelds to accurately position and guide "point-pointing" strikes...Not long ago, the brigade organized a team to conduct night-time live ammunition offensive combat drills, including individual targets, bunker targets, artillery targets, and more The average target hit rate reached 83%, and the team’s night combat ability was improved.
Let the night training be practiced
■ Liu Yong
soldiers, based on war.
War does not divide day and night, and training does not talk about seasons. Once upon a time, many big and tough battles of our army were won at night. Today, modern night battles have long overturned the traditional model. With the application of smart night vision equipment, the dark night will be "one-way transparent" to the superior side, and it will not be able to win the "night control". If you can't see the situation on the other side of the mountain, you will lose the opportunity in the future battlefield..
In the current night training, some units still have ideological deviations. Some are conservative and think that night training is to take the daytime subjects to the evening to practice; some are passive to ensure safety, think that night training has a high risk factor and difficulty in guaranteeing, and the training is carried out to avoid the heavyweights and simply taste it; others are still used to the old mechanized warfare. , I dare not use, do not want to use, and cannot use the distributed high-tech night vision equipment. All these have caused the night training level to hover at a low level.
General Su Yu once said: "We must change the old calendar, correct conservative thinking, and have new modern warfare thinking in order to adapt to the new situation and move towards modernization." Today, night combat has long become an important mode of combat in modern warfare. There is still a "night barrier" in our thinking and concepts, and we have unclear understanding, incomplete research, and inaccurate understanding of the winning mechanism of night battles under informatized conditions.
For a ship without direction, all winds are headwinds. To make night training more practical, it is necessary to strengthen the concept of information leadership, system support, elite combat, and joint victory. Use tomorrow's war to measure today's preparations. The more you practice night training, the closer you get to actual combat, and the more you train it, the more effective it is.
Judging from the recent local wars, the seamless connection between the design "blueprint" and the actual combat training "roadmap" has given people profound enlightenment: how to fight the battle, how to train the soldiers. Therefore, to strengthen night combat training under the conditions of informatization, the core is to make night training practice and night combat fighting. At the same time, it is necessary to increase the intensity of night training supervision and supervision, and increase the difficulty of assessment and acceptance, so as to focus on night training, personnel to night training, and funds to tilt to night training, to ensure sufficient training time, training courses, and training results. .
Scholars are brave because of practice, and battles are won by practice. Practice has repeatedly proved that you can't easily develop the ability to win, and you can comfortably train soldiers without bleeding. Night combat training must be difficult and strict, starting from actual combat, insisting on fighting under what conditions, the soldiers will practice in what environment; the soldiers will focus on whoever they are fighting in the battle; the soldiers will practice what is needed for the battle; The most useful in actual combat, just practice what it is. Only in this way can we practice the method of victory and control the "night control" of the future battlefield.
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