High-speed rail used to transport troops for first time

[grey boy 2]

High-speed rail used to transport troops for first time - People's Daily Online July 19, 2011

On July 16, a white G224 train started at Qingdao station, where its passengers were transferred to a high-speed train at Jinan station, which then headed to Shanghai. These were no ordinary passengers. They were hundreds of officers and servicemen of the first army unit to travel by high speed rail

The troops were assembled at the appointed areas of rail station and got on from the front and the back of the train. The whole boarding process was finished within three minutes. The train arrived in Shanghai at 1:34 p.m., four hours faster than the normal bullet train.

The use of high-speed rail in military transportation keeps pace with the development of railway, and it is also a successful trial to boost the efficiency of military deployment, said Yang Tonghai, a political commissar of the Jinan military region.

By People's Daily Online

 

[truthseeker2010]

Another first in the world by China, Keep up the good work big Bro
And this thing will really take the military logistics to a new height, a great leap forward to China, simply unmatched by any other military.

 

[anon45]

Another first in the world by China, Keep up the good work big Bro
And this thing will really take the military logistics to a new height, a great leap forward to China, simply unmatched by any other military.

doesn't seem a very good way to transport troops due to the constraints on space, as an example of military logistics its laughable. Those can't carry much equipment and at all.

Maybe to a base with its own resources, but fully armed troops? naww.

 

[Abhishek_]

Another first in the world by China, Keep up the good work big Bro
And this thing will really take the military logistics to a new height, a great leap forward to China, simply unmatched by any other military.

love is blind indeed

 

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[darkinsky]

i like high speed tarins so much, just seein them is so pleasant to eyes!!

even love the tern 'high speed'

 

[truthseeker2010]

love is blind indeed

Dude I can answer that in a much more "appropriate manner" but I wont, stay in your limit gentleman.

 

[truthseeker2010]

doesn't seem a very good way to transport troops due to the constraints on space, as an example of military logistics its laughable. Those can't carry much equipment and at all.

Maybe to a base with its own resources, but fully armed troops? naww.

The soldiers gear could be carried as a luggage for ordinary passenger.

 

[KKNDmx]

Is there any difference between the civilian and military version of high speed rail? maybe the military version is more crowded?

 

[grey boy 2]

doesn't seem a very good way to transport troops due to the constraints on space, as an example of military logistics its laughable. Those can't carry much equipment and at all.

Maybe to a base with its own resources, but fully armed troops? naww.

You have no idea what you are talking about, being laughable is on you.
PLA on board an Orient express
Asia Times Online :: China News, China Business News, Taiwan and Hong Kong News and Business.

 

[no_name]

These look like naval personnel. Isn't Qingdao where PLAN's north sea fleet is headquartered at? And aren't there rumours about an indegenous AC under construction in shanghai?

 

[kawaraj]

heard there a line considering connection to Europe through central Asia, and another to Singapore, when will this high speed rail be connected to Pakistan?

a bold guess, 2020?

 

[anon45]

The soldiers gear could be carried as a luggage for ordinary passenger.

how much gear does the average Chinese soldier carry, and what about spares, food, etc?

 

[anon45]

You have no idea what you are talking about, being laughable is on you.
PLA on board an Orient express
Asia Times Online :: China News, China Business News, Taiwan and Hong Kong News and Business.

Delivering people with luggade is not the same as delivering combat effective soldiers. To believe otherwise is laughable.

 

[Akasa]

doesn't seem a very good way to transport troops due to the constraints on space, as an example of military logistics its laughable. Those can't carry much equipment and at all.

Maybe to a base with its own resources, but fully armed troops? naww.

And you think putting them on trucks one at a time (and with limited fuel) is any better?

Please don't be stupid and think that these will be used to transport troops during combat between battlefields. These are for peacetime training.