Boom Boom Two loud noises and two anti-tank missiles hit two tanks.
The moment when the armor-piercing projectile damaged the tank, our special correspondent Qiu Chengliang took a photo.
introduction
How to fight? How do soldiers practice? A brigade of the 26th Army has used 11 kinds of ammunition to conduct real explosion drills on 37 armored combat vehicles, artillery, transport vehicles and other equipment of 5 categories, and collected thousands of groups of target damage data. The brigade entered this data into the system to evaluate the strike effect, and many conclusions broke through the traditional training concept, opening a new field of vision for officers and men in actual combat training.
The first hit doesn’t mean effective damage, only hitting the key can defeat the enemy with one blow.
Three shells hit a tank with composite armor one after another. I thought the victory was in hand, but the evaluation result was unexpected: "Hit the frontal armor, no substantial damage was caused to the target, and the damage was invalid!" This conclusion made Shi Yong, a "super shooter" of a brigade of the 26th Army, very depressed.
"When I was a soldier for 14 years, I experienced hundreds of large and small exercises. As long as it was the first hit, it was rated as an effective shooting. I didn’t expect to hit a nail in front of the real guy."
In fact, Shi Yong was not the only one who hit a nail in this live-fire drill. According to the leader of the brigade, more than 10 super shooters in the whole brigade were defeated in the first round of real shooting.
The actual data questioned the traditional training concept-is it actual combat when a gun is fired and a cannon is fired? Ammunition consumption, meters, seconds, rings … Can these indicators be simply equated with fighting skills?
These two question marks not only hover on the training ground, but also weigh on the hearts of the "group of people" of the brigade party Committee. Actual combat training is not an empty slogan, it must stand the test of actual combat standards. To this end, they introduced the actual training data into actual combat training, re-examined the traditional training methods and tactics, and seven "gold medal courses" that did not meet the actual combat standards were stuck outside the training ground.
Problems on the training ground must be solved on the training ground. In the subsequent resumption, Shi Yong and other defeated shooters made "zero distance" contact with the hit tanks, and compared the collected damage data, repeatedly analyzed and found out the reasons for not forming effective damage.
"The first aiming position should be the engine compartment of the tank. If you attack with an armor-piercing projectile, even if it can’t be destroyed, it will cause damage to the crawler and lead to paralysis …" At the military democracy meeting, officers and men had a deeper understanding of the first hit.
The first enemy to fire does not mean to seize the opportunity. Only by measuring the enemy’s troops can we win every battle.
The brigade has 701 vehicles in the 3rd Battalion and 7th Company, which is the best "red flag vehicle" in the whole brigade. It has shot down 326 targets in previous exercises. However, in this drill, because the enemy fired first, they not only missed each other, but became living targets.
The leader of the brigade told the reporter that according to the battlefield data, the target tank is better than ours in terms of artillery range and armor protection. In the face of such a strong enemy, the first enemy to fire will not achieve the effect of destroying the enemy, but will be exposed prematurely, thus falling into the unfavorable situation of "the enemy can beat me and I can’t beat the enemy."
"Driving into a pit can reduce the exposed area, and you can hit and run by relying on the soil slope, and drilling into shrubs can interfere with ranging …" Li Ruijie, a tank driver, told reporters that in order to overcome the weakness of his own tank and attack the enemy as much as possible, it is necessary to not only lower the "posture" but also make good use of the surrounding topography and protect himself before attacking the enemy.
The reporter saw at the drill site that Li Ruijie’s motorcade simply circled around the other side for maneuver defense, attracting the "enemy" tanks to keep turning, while another tank of its own took this opportunity to approach quickly and quickly, aiming at the enemy’s weak points and shooting a fatal blow, staged a wonderful confrontation with the inferior to win the superior.
The central position is not equal to the key position, and only by selecting the target can we get twice the result with half the effort.
It’s better to miss than to hit right! If this matter is usually placed on any officer, it is unbelievable. But it happened firmly in the actual combat environment.
"boom! Boom! " With two loud noises, two anti-tank missiles from the second battalion of Bubu successively hit the turrets of two tanks, and at that time the flames soared. The reporter went out with the rescue team and saw that the first missile hit the center of the turret and the second hit the lower left of the turret.
Just as the officers and men cheered for the first missile, the battlefield damage data showed that the first missile only damaged the gun bolt; The second shot destroyed the vehicle-mounted radio and artillery aiming mechanism, and hit the tank ammunition bin, which was better than the first shot.
The evaluation results surprised officers and men, and the traditional training concept of winning by hitting the bull’s-eye for many years was a bit untenable. "In the past, actual combat training was unilaterally understood as playing live ammunition, blindly emphasizing playing more, playing well and playing accurately, and the research on the damage effect of hitting targets was not deep." The brigade leader said that this time, the brigade party Committee introduced the actual combat data into the actual combat training, guided the training with the training concept based on effect combat, and established the actual combat coordinate system supported by damage data.
The target damage data system is impacting the brigade’s traditional operational concept. The reporter was pleasantly surprised to see at the brigade training ground that the target target changed from the "white cloth target" in the past to a real tank, and the fixed target became a mobile target. The officers and men studied the tactics and play with reference to the damage data collected by the actual combat. Talking about these changes, Kong Chen, the squad leader of Bubu No.5 Company, was deeply touched: "The target bull’s-eye in actual combat needs combatants to find it with their brains."
Battlefield viewpoint
Learn to "fight with data"
■ Ma Shujiang
The actual combat is not real, the effect is how, the experience does not count, and the data has the right to speak. Operational data has become a key factor in the generation of combat effectiveness, and the search, analysis and processing of data will become a decisive factor in winning future wars.
Information is the eye, data is the courage. The characteristic of actual combat is precision. Accuracy, precision and fineness all come from specific data information. Only by being good at speaking with data can we accurately judge the target, select the key points and accurately release the energy.
Under the conditions of modern warfare, operational advantages are concentrated in information advantages, which are highly dependent on data advantages. Nowadays, all kinds of information equipment of our army are installed in succession. However, it is not enough to have information-based weapons and equipment. Commanders also need to be able to construct data, digest data and be good at speaking with data. In every link and element of combat, data should be used for embodiment, data expression, data proof and data decision.
Good calculation has a chance of winning. Data is indispensable to mastering the truth, scientific decision-making depends on data, and it is necessary to attach importance to data to defeat the enemy. Only by constantly strengthening data awareness and cultivating the habit of fighting with data can we make the battlefield nerves more sensitive and ensure our army to win more.