The inaccessible Chugor grassland in the Russian Far East ushered in a "highlight moment".
From September 11th to 13th, the "Oriental-2018" strategic exercise entered the climax stage of the joint campaign exercise, as tens of thousands of armored troops of China and Russia crushed the battlefield and hundreds of Hawk rushed into the sky. The "Oriental-2018" strategic exercise is the largest strategic exercise organized by the Russian army in recent years, and it is also the largest outbound performance in the history of China’s army, which has created many firsts in the history of China-diplomatic performance.
From sending cross-border troops to joint military exercises, from reviewing troops on the battlefield to returning troops to rebuild, Xinhua News Agency reporters followed China to participate in the "embedded" interview of the whole process, recording the precious moment when China’s army defended peace and went global.
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Chinese officers and men who participated in the "Oriental-2018" strategic exercise held a flag-raising ceremony after arriving at the Russian Chugor training ground (photo taken on September 2).
The "Oriental-2018" strategic exercise, which China’s army participated in, officially kicked off at the Chugor Training Ground in the Russian Post-Baikal Territory on the 11th.
Xinhua News Agency reporter Fan Yongqiang photo
The actual military exercise was unprecedented in scale and the effect was shocking.
In the autumn, the sky is high and the clouds are light at the Chugor training ground. At 12 o’clock local time on September 13th, with the roar of helicopter formation from far to near, the airborne assault detachment began to deploy mobile defense, which officially kicked off the actual live-fire drill.
According to the exercise plan, Chinese and Russian officers and men participating in the exercise will work together to repel the imaginary enemy attack, implement defensive deployment, mobile operations, force water barriers, fire strikes and joint counterattacks, and focus on testing the ability of the troops to conduct joint air and land campaigns in unfamiliar environments.
In this stage of the exercise, China and Russia gathered at the Chugor training ground with a total area of less than 1,000 square kilometers to participate in the exercise, with more than 28,000 troops, more than 8,000 weapons and equipment, and more than 280 fixed-wing aircraft and helicopters.
↑ "Oriental-2018" strategic exercise The Sino-Russian joint campaign exercise officially began.
On September 11th, at the Russian Chugor Training Ground, the Chinese director department conducted the "Oriental-2018" strategic exercise.
The "Oriental-2018" strategic exercise, which China’s army participated in, officially kicked off at the Chugor Training Ground in the Russian Post-Baikal Territory on the 11th.
Xinhua News Agency reporter Fan Yongqiang photo
The joint director’s department, jointly established by the strategic command agencies of China and Russia, commands the completion of joint operational planning, coordination and command of military operations in real time.
The ground armor rushed and the air fighters roared. The main feature of the joint campaign of land and air is to use modern tactics and means to carry out the maneuver of combat and reconnaissance units, and to carry out joint fire strikes by infantry, tanks and artillery units with the support of aviation fire.
Intensive firepower poured down, and smoke filled the military field. The whizzing helicopters, fighters and bombers, the rapidly advancing tanks, armored vehicles and infantry fighting vehicles, as well as the roaring cannons, missiles and rockets, make the air seem to burn and the earth tremble!
In just 40 minutes, in Fiona Fang’s 50-square-kilometer military exercise area, the air and ground firepower of China and Russia fired hundreds of tons of various ammunition, accurately striking and three-dimensionally damaging thousands of various targets, and together they gathered into a powerful force to annihilate the "invading enemy".
"The exercise was very successful, exciting and shocking!" After the exercise, Shao Yuanming, general director of the Chinese director’s department and deputy chief of staff of the Joint Staff of the Central Military Commission, said that the officers and men of the two armies had further deepened their friendship, deepened mutual trust, promoted cooperation, maintained peace and improved the ability of the two armies to jointly act and jointly respond to various security threats.
“东方－２０１８”战略演习是自１９８１年苏联“西方－８１”演习以来俄罗斯规模最大的军事演习，参演兵力之多、演习地域之广堪称“史无前例”。其中，由中俄两国军队共同进行联合战役实兵演练的楚戈尔训练场处于整场演习的核心位置。
１３日的实兵演习结束后，俄罗斯武装力量作战训练总局局长布瓦利采夫在接受媒体采访时说，中俄两国军人在“东方－２０１８”演习中展示出了可共同执行各种任务的能力，“俄中两国军人今天的表现显示，我们不仅能够联合完成作训任务，也能完成战斗任务”。
↑ "Oriental-2018" strategic exercise held joint campaign drills and battlefield reviews.
９月１３日，在俄罗斯楚戈尔训练场，俄方直升机群在“东方－２０１８”战略演习联合战役实兵演练开始后进入演习地域，开始实施机动防御。
The ground armor rushed and the air fighters roared. On the 13th, the "Oriental-2018" strategic exercise, joint campaign and actual combat exercise was staged in Chugor training ground in Russia. The Chinese and Russian armed forces worked closely together to stage a modern joint air and land campaign. In the subsequent battlefield review, a series of heavyweight "star" equipment all appeared, jointly pushing this unprecedented strategic exercise to a climax.
Xinhua News Agency reporter Fan Yongqiang photo
沙场检阅，“明星”主战装备悉数登场
中国国务委员兼国防部长魏凤和作为习近平主席的代表，于９月１２日至１３日率团赴俄观摩“东方－２０１８”战略演习。在楚戈尔训练场，魏凤和与俄总统普京、国防部长绍伊古一同观摩了实兵实弹演习并出席了随后举行的阅兵。
On the afternoon of the 13th, after the actual live-fire drill, the Chinese and Russian armed forces participated in the battlefield and were reviewed.
In the air, groups of fighter echelons roared past; On the ground, a series of equipment phalanxes are rolling. A total of 28 ground teams and 51 air teams from China and Russia were reviewed. Five armored teams from the 78th Army of the Chinese Army passed through the parade ground holding the honorary flags of "Iron Company", "Model Company of Fighting", "Winning in Every Battle", "Hammer Group" and "Invincible".
↑ "Oriental-2018" strategic exercise held joint campaign drills and battlefield reviews.
On September 13th, at the Chugor training ground in Russia, the Russian tank unit fought back in the "Oriental-2018" strategic exercise joint campaign.
The ground armor rushed and the air fighters roared. On the 13th, the "Oriental-2018" strategic exercise, joint campaign and actual combat exercise was staged in Chugor training ground in Russia. The Chinese and Russian armed forces worked closely together to stage a modern joint air and land campaign. In the subsequent battlefield review, a series of heavyweight "star" equipment all appeared, jointly pushing this unprecedented strategic exercise to a climax.
Xinhua News Agency reporter Fan Yongqiang photo
Advanced fighters such as Tu-95, Tu-22, Su-27, Su-34, Su-35, Mi-26 and Ka-52, and Russian "stars" such as T7B3 tanks, 2S19 self-propelled howitzers, Tornado rockets, Beech-M2 air defense missiles and iskander missiles.
The main battle equipment such as Type 99 main battle tank, Type 08 wheeled infantry fighting vehicle, Type 11 wheeled armored assault vehicle, Type 09 122 mm wheeled howitzer, Zhi 9, Zhi 19, Mi 171 helicopters and the Air Force J-H 7A fighter also made their debut in the battlefield review.
"The intensive dispatch of a large number of weapons and equipment is a distinctive feature of this exercise and a focus of attention from the outside world." At the scene of the military parade, Li Shuyin, a military expert who participated in the team and a researcher at the War Research Institute of the Academy of Military Sciences, said that the current Chugor training ground can be called a big gathering of the "star" equipment of the Chinese and Russian armed forces, which is a feast for the eyes. "We are also very much looking forward to the Chinese and Russian armed forces accelerating the pace of cooperation in the field of military equipment in the future."
After the battlefield review, President Putin presented medals to the representatives of Chinese and Russian officers and soldiers who performed well in the exercise. In his speech, he said that the responsibility of the state is to be ready to defend sovereignty, security and national interests at all times and support allies when necessary. To this end, Russia will continue to strengthen its armed forces, deploy the most advanced weapons and equipment, and develop relations with international military partners.
An impressive detail is that when he left after the battlefield inspection, Putin said three "thanks" to the commanders of China’s army who observed the scene.
↑ "Oriental-2018" strategic exercise launched a joint campaign command exercise
At the Chugor training ground in Russia, the commander of the Sino-Russian joint director department conducted a consultation and exchange of command and guidance in the Chinese director department (photo taken on September 11).
On September 12, the "Oriental-2018" strategic exercise launched a joint campaign command exercise in an all-round way, focusing on testing the joint operational planning and organization and command capabilities of the Chinese and Russian armed forces.
Xinhua News Agency reporter Fan Yongqiang photo
The joint performance was upgraded, and strategic cooperation reached a record high.
Since the Ministry of National Defense of the two countries announced on August 20th that they would jointly organize a joint action exercise under the framework of "Oriental-2018", China’s participation in Russian strategic exercises in the Far East has attracted worldwide attention, and people have speculated on the background and intention of this move.
As a well-known expert who has been studying Sino-Russian military relations for a long time, Li Shuyin believes that, like the previous exercises of the two armies under the multilateral and bilateral frameworks, this exercise is still not aimed at any third party, but a new exercise model based on the need to consolidate the comprehensive strategic cooperative partnership between the two countries and expand the depth and breadth of cooperation between the two armies.
"China was invited to participate in an unprecedented strategic exercise in Russia this time, which was carried out against the background that the comprehensive strategic cooperative partnership between China and Russia entered a high level and developed greatly. The participation itself shows that the strategic cooperative relationship between the two countries and the two armies has reached a new historical height." Li Weiya, deputy director of the Chinese director department who witnessed the step-by-step development of Sino-Russian joint military exercises, said that the China Army’s strategic and campaign command organs led elite joint combat troops to conduct strategic exercises with the Russian armed forces across the border, which was characterized by strategic, joint, practical and large-scale.
This time, China’s army sent more than 3,200 people to participate in the exercise, which is the largest in the history of sending troops abroad to participate in the military exercise. The exercise topic has also expanded from the previous joint anti-terrorism to the traditional security topic of organizing defense and counterattack.
This is the first time that China’s army, after revolutionary reform and remolding, is mainly composed of the Joint General Staff of the Military Commission, and the elite personnel from relevant departments of the Military Commission are organized into the Chinese director’s department to organize joint campaign exercises abroad. The Chinese director department is not only the director organization of the exercise, but also the front command post of the Joint Operations Command Center of the Central Military Commission.
↑ "Oriental-2018" strategic exercise The Sino-Russian joint campaign exercise officially began.
Chinese officers and men who participated in the "Oriental-2018" strategic exercise were on alert duty at the camping site of the Chugor training ground in Russia (photo taken on September 2).
The "Oriental-2018" strategic exercise, which China’s army participated in, officially kicked off at the Chugor Training Ground in the Russian Post-Baikal Territory on the 11th.
Xinhua News Agency reporter Fan Yongqiang photo
In previous media reports, it was rare to use the word "strategy" in the exercise code.
As a strategic exercise, this exercise was directly organized and implemented by the strategic command institutions of the Chinese and Russian armed forces and directly commanded by the joint campaign command institutions of the theater. For the new joint operational command system of China Army, it is a good test of actual combat, and it is also a test and experience for the command ability of the strategic campaign commander of China Army.
Since going to China to participate in the performance, Russian troops and Russian troops have fought side by side, practiced in the same field, combined with each other and learned from each other. In practice, they have explored ways and means of joint operations and accumulated practical experience of joint command.
"This strategic exercise is the first joint training exercise after the new era reform of the China army and the’ new look’ reform of the Russian army, which is of great significance." Li Weiya said that during the exercise, the two sides dispatched the army, air force, air force, airborne troops and other arms and services to participate in the exercise. Under the guidance and control of the joint director department, they jointly acted and fought, which reflected the fighting capacity of the Russian army in the new era and the new look of the Russian army.
Li Weiya said that Russia, as a military power, has a strong combat capability. The "new look" reform of the armed forces in recent years has brought major changes to the Russian army. In the past two years, it has accumulated rich practical experience in participating in Syrian operations. However, our army has undergone national defense and military reform and reconstruction, and the new joint operational command system and new military strength structure and organization have opened a new journey for our army.
"The exercise provided a rare opportunity for the two reformed armies to learn and communicate with each other." Shao Yuanming, the general director of the Chinese side, believes that our army has gained experience and gains in actual combat awareness, campaign command, tactical coordination, cross-border force delivery, etc. Through participation, the beneficial experience of Russian military operations and training is worth learning from. (Fan Yongqiang, Ji Mengnan, Cai Pengcheng)
Editor: Wang Dongming
