On December 8, Li Jun, commander of an army aviation regiment of the
Shenyang Military Area Command (MAC), who was organizing a tactical flight
training at an airport in southern Liaoning Province told the reporter that, up
to the day before that day, his regiment had organized a total of 147 flights
with over 4,000 safety flying hours, and had fulfilled the annual flying
training time quota by 106.7%.
Since the beginning of this year, this regiment has organized its troops to
conduct long-range ferry flight training in large organic air fleet, and
fulfilled the first rocket attack training of a certain type of transport plane
after its retrofitting as well as the first training of armed helicopter
attacking moving targets with missiles and rockets. In addition, it also
organized a number of extreme difficult tactical trainings, such as offshore
zero feet formation flying, and offshore firepower attack, etc. By mid-October,
the regiment had already fulfilled the annual flight training time quota. That
means it accomplished the training tasks two months ahead of time.
What shall be done next after the completion of the training task ahead of
time? The leaders of the regiment Party committee put their heads together and
unified their thinking: Such a rare opportunity should be fully used to push
ahead with the training and raise the fighting capacity of its troops to a
higher level. Having reached this common understanding, the regiment made good
use of the opportunity to carry out make-up trainings to rectify the weak points
in training. At the same time, it also let tactical flight training run through
the whole flying training process. In early November, it took the initiative to
participate in a confrontation exercise under information conditions. On that
day, eight fighters of the regiment formed a task force to implement a
long-range raid mission. Right after arriving at the designated airspace, the
task force accomplished the aerial mine-laying mission at lightening speed.
By Yan Jun and Shi Binxin
(Dec.27, PLA Daily)
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