The Russian T-72B3 tank and other armored vehicles were hiding in the woods. They thought they would not be discovered by the Ukrainian army, but unexpectedly they were targeted by drones overhead. (Picture taken from Twitter)
[Reporter Luo Tianbin/Reporting from Taipei] The Communist Army’s troops hit a brick wall during a recent actual combat exercise. The entire infantry unit was “annihilated” during the exercise! The Chinese Communist Party’s military media, the People’s Liberation Army Daily, rarely took the initiative to disclose this defeat on November 9. It admitted that during a red-blue confrontation exercise, the infantry unit of a certain brigade of the Army’s 75th Group Army, although the infantry unit playing the red side followed traditional teachings and wore The camouflage suit hid in dense forests and bushes, but it was still clearly seen by the blue team's drone equipped with thermal imaging sensors, which immediately guided the rear artillery to cover the area with fire. The entire squadron was wiped out before there was time to react.
After the review footage of this exercise was exposed, many officers and soldiers of the Communist Party broke into cold sweats after watching it. Communist military media reports pointed out that in the past, ground troops used to rely on terrain cover, night or camouflage camouflage to avoid enemy reconnaissance, but now enemy drones are equipped with highly sensitive thermal imaging sensors, and human body temperature cannot be hidden under the camera. As long as it is locked by the drone and the coordinates are transmitted back, the artillery shell will be smashed down immediately. The traditional static hiding tactics are almost ineffective in the face of modern technology.
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The Ukrainian army's FPV drone attacked at night and accurately destroyed the Russian BRDM-2 armored vehicle. (Reproduced from YouTube video)
In fact, it is not without reason that the Communist Army is so nervous. The most bloody example is the Ukrainian-Russian war that has been fiercely fought in recent years. On the Ukrainian-Russian battlefield, whether it is the Russian army or the Ukrainian army, as long as the ground troops are slightly exposed, they will be targeted by reconnaissance drones, followed by precision artillery bombardment or suicide drone bombings, often causing heavy casualties to entire platoons and entire companies of soldiers in just a few minutes. The combination of drones and artillery strike mode has completely changed the rules of modern ground combat.
Faced with the deadly threat posed by drones, the Communist Party's military media adopted the method of "first exposing their own shortcomings and then promoting educational reforms" to use this fiasco to promote the transformation of the military. The report emphasized that a brigade of the 75th Group Army has made "anti-drone operations" a required course for all infantrymen after learning from the experience. At present, at least four theaters of the People's Liberation Army are active. They are busy renovating training materials, setting up anti-drone combat centers, and building simulation training rooms for officers and soldiers to practice every day.
It can be seen from this rare revelation that the Communist Army was completely wiped out in an exercise that the modern battlefield is no longer an era that can be dealt with solely by a sea of people or traditional camouflage. As drones become more and more popular, how to quickly detect, interfere with and even shoot down drones in the sky has become the key to the survival of ground troops in various countries.
