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Airborne maneuver 2009″ kicks off, See a Gallery
October.20 (China Defense Mashup Reporting by Johanthan Weng) Under the background of carrying out diversified military tasks and adapting to large-scale combat under information-based condition, the Airborne maneuver 2009 exercise, the largest trans-theater comprehensive campaign maneuver exercise in the history of the Chinese airborne force, kicked off on October 18.
Except the aviation force and troops participating in the Vanguard 2009 exercise, all airborne troops and all equipment of the Chinese airborne force including 13,000 officers and men, 1,500-plus vehicles and 7,000-odd units of equipment of the leading organs, subordinated units and 3 divisions participated in this exercise. During the 20-day-long exercise, the participating troops will maneuver more than 2,000 km between Hubei, Henan, Anhui and Jiangsu Provinces with a multiple of means and routes. Besides, they will also assemble at the designated places twice to carry out live-shell, multi-terrain and multi-subject exercise under close-to-actual-war condition.
October.20 (China Defense Mashup Reporting by Johanthan Weng) Under the background of carrying out diversified military tasks and adapting to large-scale combat under information-based condition, the Airborne maneuver 2009 exercise, the largest trans-theater comprehensive campaign maneuver exercise in the history of the Chinese airborne force, kicked off on October 18.
Except the aviation force and troops participating in the Vanguard 2009 exercise, all airborne troops and all equipment of the Chinese airborne force including 13,000 officers and men, 1,500-plus vehicles and 7,000-odd units of equipment of the leading organs, subordinated units and 3 divisions participated in this exercise. During the 20-day-long exercise, the participating troops will maneuver more than 2,000 km between Hubei, Henan, Anhui and Jiangsu Provinces with a multiple of means and routes. Besides, they will also assemble at the designated places twice to carry out live-shell, multi-terrain and multi-subject exercise under close-to-actual-war condition.
