Former title: Military Camp Observation | "Blue Army Thinking" of the local guidance battalion commander
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The wind and thunder are rising, and the soldiers are ordered on the battlefield. Throughout the whole military exercise and training ground, the confrontation training has been promoted normally, and the red blue game has many highlights.
The confrontation training is the "pre practice" of the future war, and also reflects the thinking, level and development trend of the military combat effectiveness construction to a large extent. Behind each competition between Red and Blue is to seek the way to win with the "enemy" as the target, test the training level with the "enemy" as the reference, and hone the winning ability with the "enemy" as the teacher. The red and blue sides learn from each other and seek the way to generate combat effectiveness in confrontation.
From today on, the "Camp Observation" edition has successively launched a series of reports on "comprehensively strengthening the news investigation of military training and preparation, my blue army story", which aims to explore the news behind the smoke of gunpowder and the confrontation in the depth of thought with a small lens and a big vision, hot news and cold thinking. Please pay attention.
"Young Strong Enemy" in the eyes of rivals
■ PLA Daily reporter Li Qian, correspondent Zhang Yufei
During the interview with several aviation units of the Air Force in the central theater, the reporter asked the officers and soldiers: "Who is the most difficult opponent?"
Their answers were strangely consistent: Huang Lin.
Huang Lin is the commander of a pilot battalion of the air force in the central theater. The battalion has only been established for a few years. Why do "young" people become the "powerful enemies" in the eyes of their rivals?
"We are good at using the 'ladder' of confrontation to help us grow rapidly." Huang Lin said frankly that in recent years, they have organized dozens of red and blue confrontations with multiple forces inside and outside the jurisdiction from scratch. "It is no exaggeration to say that our ability level is constantly improved and developed in the confrontation".
In the late autumn of that year, during a confrontation training in the desert and Gobi desert, the Red Air Force changed its tactics and attacked the target area from multiple directions and heights. The high-altitude aircraft repeatedly tested by taking turns to break in, luring the blue side to actively expose the deployment position, while covering other aircraft to break in at low altitude and wait for an opportunity.
"What a diversion!" What the Red Party didn't know was that Huang Lin quickly saw through their battle attempt.
After the "enemy aircraft" broke into the firepower circle, Huang Lin did not immediately order the interception, but "played by the game", deliberately put the "enemy aircraft" into the reliable killing range, aimed at the interception opportunity, and prepared to catch all.
"Shoot!" With Huang Lin's order, anti-aircraft missiles roared up like arrows, and the targets were destroyed one by one
In many confrontations, Huang Lin's "blue army thinking" continues to take root and grow. Through continuous confrontation training, he led officers and soldiers to learn to understand and analyze their opponents, and then optimize their own tactical strategies to defeat them.
"The blue army unit is the" stand in "of the future enemy. Only by creating a complex and changeable battlefield environment can the troops' experience ahead of time and respond calmly before the war starts." Huang Lin's view of the blue army is not only about fighting, killing and competing, but also about learning from each other and working hand in hand.
From the past simple personnel and equipment to the present electromagnetic attack and defense are everywhere; From the previous single fight to the current system confrontation, the iterative upgrade of confrontation creates the iterative upgrade of combat effectiveness. Looking back on the experience of the Blue Army over the years, Huang Lin said: "Confrontation is close to actual combat, but not actual combat. The real future battlefield is full of twists and turns. We must always ignite the 'beacon fire' in our minds, and train our confrontation skills to be stronger and stronger in order to win in the future battlefield."
(At the request of the interviewee, Huang Lin is a pseudonym)
The "blue army thinking" of the local guidance battalion commander
■ PLA Daily reporter Li Qian, correspondent Zhang Yufei
A pilot battalion of the Air Force in the Central Theater of Operations organized a long-distance mobile transition. Photographed by Yang Bo
The Blue Army is the unique name of the Chinese army for training "fake enemies".
Like many blue armies, Huang Lin, the commander of the guidance battalion of the air force in the central theater, has no "textbook" for his blue army career. Over the years, they have played with a number of aviation forces, gradually completed their role orientation, and gradually tasted the "taste" of being a blue army.
On the training records of the battalion in recent years, you can find many codes of aviation units. Behind each code, there is an open field confrontation and a period of flames of war. The alternation of victory, defeat, honor and disgrace between you and me has never stopped - after "five passes", I want to "kill six generals", and after "going to Maicheng", I want to avenge "one shot".
In Huang Lin's opinion, being a blue army is far more than just deciding the winner.
The first thing the Blue Army should do is to be a "qualified enemy"
This is a special system confrontation live drill: in order to build a realistic and complex electromagnetic battlefield environment, he served as the guide battalion of the central theater air force of the blue army, and drew a special aircraft force thousands of miles away as "teammates" to fight with an aviation force.
During the drill, they innovated the system confrontation mode, realized synchronous awareness of local situation by jointly building a closed kill chain system, integrated multiple forces, completed module tasks more efficiently, and supported overall combat operations.
"This is the system test that will be faced in the future battlefield." Walking off the drill field, Huang Lin explained the meaning of this move. The first thing the blue army should do is to be a "qualified enemy".
Real knowledge comes from practice. In the deep winter of that year, the smoke of gunpowder was everywhere in the hinterland of eastern Anhui. The battalion and an aviation unit carried out high-intensity confrontation training. Huang Lin tried his best to still feel that "the 'eyes' were not enough, and two fists could not compete with four hands." The result was self-evident.
Although the Red Party won, they did not seem "satisfied".
"You don't act like" "Our system is attacking, and you are still fighting alone" "It's not satisfying"... The words that the pilots said inadvertently made Huang Lin embarrassed.
"The system is an important support for victory in the battlefield! If you want to win the future battlefield, you must integrate into the system to maximize the operational efficiency." At the end of the resumption meeting, Huang Lin, together with the battalion company commander, carried out in-depth research on issues related to system operations.
Since peacetime training can not build a system confrontation environment, Huang Lin often builds targeted confrontation training with friendly and neighboring forces to restore the real confrontation scenario to the greatest extent by relying on the existing military resources in the station.
When all weapon platforms and command organizations were unable to communicate, Huang Lin actively promoted and invited all services and arms units and equipment manufacturers to jointly overcome link blockages, and strive to create a "space and ground network" to achieve situation sharing and joint efforts.
Soon, a "big exam" came as scheduled.
Huang Lin's battalion formed a joint air defense system with other ground forces and air combat forces. As a joint blue army, it launched a live confrontation with the Red Party.
In the actual military confrontation, Huang Lin felt "like a fish in water": multiple means were used to ensure that the command link was unblocked, and an intelligence support system was built to share air information in real time; Multiple fire strike platforms optimize the operational organization to form a dense fire network. In the end, the camp ranked first in the overall evaluation.
War should be integrated into the system to fight, and soldiers should be integrated into the system to practice. The reporter opened the training schedule of the camp and found that this year alone, they were repeatedly "ordered" by their superiors to participate in multiple system confrontation training as the Blue Army.
In the confrontation training, gains and losses are more important than wins and losses, and questions are more precious than answers
"The 'enemy' flew overhead, but we didn't find it!"
Looking back on the first red blue confrontation shortly after the installation, Huang Lin is still ashamed.
Due to the lack of deep understanding of the weapon equipment performance of the Red Air Force and unskilled use of countermeasures, they lost the first battle in a strong jamming environment.
"This' fatal attack 'made me have a sense of the battlefield," Huang Lin told reporters that confrontation is like' looking in the mirror '. Through the mirror of the Red Party, he had a clearer understanding of his own strength and positioning, and also deeply realized that understanding the tasks and opponents should be the consciousness of being a blue army.
In Huang Lin's opinion, the reason why "AI" can defeat the world Go masters is that it can calculate all the possibilities of the next move. From this perspective, in the war preparation stage, the army should strive to avoid all loopholes in combat effectiveness and obtain all elements of winning.
"In the confrontation training, gains and losses are more important than wins and losses, and questions are more precious than answers.
——Go deep into "research". "Tactics are produced in the tit for tat struggle with opponents. It is useless to imagine without reference to specific combat tasks, opponents and environments." Before each confrontation mission, Huang Lin has a habit of leading the advance team to accurately survey the terrain of the mission area with measuring equipment. At the same time, from the perspective of the Red Party, we should plan multiple march routes strictly and with difficulty, select real and fake positions on the spot, and configure battle formations.
——Be bold to "change". "The battlefield is unpredictable. In war, we need to win by surprise, and only by constantly upgrading our fighting methods can we win by surprise on the battlefield." In peacetime drills, the battalion set up complex special circumstances, actively set up risks and difficulties, and continuously carried out multi course guidance and high-intensity confrontation, so that real combat runs through the whole process and all links of the drill. In the radar cabin, Huang Lin often incarnates as "one hundred thousand whys", randomly sets out questions for operation, and formulates corresponding reward and punishment measures.
Some time ago, in order to make the officers and soldiers get rid of the habitual thinking of "planning in advance and deploying in battle", Huang Lin did not lead the troops to strange areas according to the plan, and carried out an emergency pull drill.
——Practice hard. "If you practice more skills on weekdays, you can have more chances of victory in wartime. As a local guide force, you must constantly improve the rapid response ability of the force." To this end, Huang Lin conducts training in layers according to the training level, and scientifically plans the training path; Focus on and refine key positions; According to the combination of "high and low ratio", select and train the top students for the officers and soldiers with weak performance to guide them.
During the preparation of a mission, Huang Lin led five radar trumpeters to study the characteristics of the target and refine each command action.
Entering the honor room of the battalion, several pieces of target wrecks of different difficulty and levels witnessed the "glorious moment" of the battalion in the confrontation and their growth footprints.
"Without a strong opponent, you can't develop excellent skills. After all these years, isn't the Red Square our 'knife sharpening stone'?" Looking at these hard won wrecks, Huang Lin was filled with emotion.
Take the Blue Army as a mirror to see a "true self"
Shooting down three "enemy aircraft" and injuring five "enemy aircraft" - this is the achievement of Huang Lin and his comrades in arms in the latest red blue confrontation.
However, this data made Huang Lin feel a chill behind him.
Just half a year ago, the opponent was still this flying group. They sent more than 10 fighter planes to fight with Huang Lin, all of which were defeated. Most of them were killed under Huang Lin's flexible command before they got close to the main battle position of the Blue Army.
"On the third day of departure, we should look at the old enemy with new eyes. In just half a year, we will have a new understanding of the old enemy." During the confrontation, Huang Lin clearly saw that the "enemy aircraft" changed its normal state and raided the blue army air defense positions from the edge of the firepower circle in a new way.
"Pay close attention and get ready for interception!" After the order, the radar accused the technician Ma Peiling of launching interception immediately. But just after grasping the "enemy aircraft" signal and preparing to lock the attack, the red formation immediately changed its attitude, and the attack conditions disappeared. After several rounds, a stable strike condition has not been formed for a long time.
As the "enemy plane" flew closer and closer, a layer of sweat oozed from Huang Lin's forehead. Finally, relying on actuarial calculation and skillful operation, Huang Lin commanded the radar horn to complete the task with a short interception window.
"If we slow down a second, the war situation may be reversed!" Recalling the scene at that time, Huang Lin was frightened. "They are getting more and more familiar with the performance of our equipment, and it is becoming more and more difficult for the Red Party to fight!"
Huang Lin said frankly that in recent years, they have sharpened the sharp edge in the air: the Red Party's tactical strategy has become more and more bold, its flight altitude has become lower and lower, its tactical tactics have become more flexible and diverse, and its equipment has been upgraded rapidly
"The 'sharpening stone' not only sharpens the opponent, but also sharpens itself." Huang Lin still remembers that when they first fought with a certain department, they used a certain type of anti jamming equipment to participate in the battle for the first time, and finally won the championship with a score of 3:1. But soon, a certain department also made a targeted upgrade to its jamming equipment. In the second confrontation, the results were reversed, and Huang Linfang was reluctant to lose.
After realizing the crisis, Huang Lin established a regular contact mechanism with several manufacturers, constantly put forward detailed suggestions, and improved the system and software design. With the improvement of the signal processing capability of this type of equipment under jamming conditions, the battle situation was successfully reversed in the subsequent confrontation, and Huang Lin's team again took the upper hand.
This feeling of "mutual sharpening and sharpening" and "expert competition" makes Huang Lin and his rivals enjoy it. They grasped the red and blue confrontation period to refine the tactics and tactics. Many difficult problems that restricted the improvement of the combat effectiveness of the troops were effectively solved. A batch of new cutting-edge combat methods were successively produced, which were effectively tested in the front line of training.
In Huang Lin's view, the Blue Army is more like a mirror: the so-called mirror refers to finding their own weaknesses in confrontation and seeking ways to overcome these weaknesses; The so-called mirror refers to finding the weakness of the opponent in the confrontation and developing the ability to use these weaknesses. In the final analysis, it is to show a "true self".
Over the years, Huang Lin has added a "comrade in arms" for every additional "opponent".
The reporter's visit coincided with the arrival of the staff of the Communication Section of the Friendly Neighboring Aviation Force, who wanted to verify the quality and efficiency of a new jamming equipment through the radar equipment of the battalion.
When the fighter implements jamming in the air, Huang Lin and the "opponent" sit side by side in the radar cabin, watching the target changes on the radar operation display screen while discussing whether the opportunity and mode of fighter jamming are effective.
Teach "opponents" how to defeat themselves, never mean to expose the weaknesses of their equipment to "opponents", and also share their training skills with "opponents" unreservedly. This is the pattern of Huang Lin and also reflects his self-confidence.
"Seeking the way to win in the confrontation and the game is the common pursuit of both red and blue sides." Huang Lin said that every time the confrontation ends, he and the red forces will review together, sum up together, and have long put the gains and losses aside. "Only by learning lessons and constantly upgrading the fighting methods can we win the initiative and control the victory in the future battlefield".
As night fell, the tail flame of the Red Party fighter tore through the night sky and broke through at low altitude in a dense formation. In the command shelter, Huang Lin was calm, his eyes kept "strafing" the command platform, and a red blue confrontation started again
(At the request of the interviewee, Huang Lin is a pseudonym)
Seeking the first chance to win in confrontation
■ Li Qian
President Xi emphasized that we should strengthen case based confrontational training. Operation is a life and death game between the enemy and us, and high-level combat training should also be a high-intensity confrontation between the red and blue sides. Practice has proved that the more "blue" the Blue Army, the more "red" the Red Army; Only when the blue army is "one foot higher than the devil" can the red army be "one foot higher". The two complement each other and complement each other.
If the army wants to improve its ability to fight and win, so as to seek the first chance to win, there is no other way. It is to often fight against strong opponents. Let the confrontation training become normal, which is conducive to the innovation of training methods and tactics, the improvement of training quality and efficiency, and the exercise of the commander's decision-making ability.
Confrontation training should aim at its own weaknesses. Confrontation training is the best time for troops to find their own weaknesses. By constructing complex conditions and creating a realistic battlefield environment, the army should be encouraged to expose problems under high pressure. Focusing on the methods of combat that are ignored in ordinary times, the army should carry out targeted research, seize the weak links to focus on tackling key problems, actively explore innovative training models, and promote the rapid growth of the army's combat effectiveness.
There are more strategies to defeat the enemy in the confrontation training. In the confrontation training, we should find Guan Gong and get an axe to our class, and select the strongest opponent as the imaginary enemy. This requires all forces to make clear and understand "who to fight with and how to fight with", set the opponent as "true", set the battlefield environment as "live", and build a blue army according to the standard of "knowing the enemy, like the enemy, surpassing the enemy, and winning the enemy" when conducting confrontation training, so as to forge hard combat skills and grasp the initiative in the battlefield.
The key to effective confrontation training is to improve the intensity. We should go beyond daily training, move towards extreme training and pursuit of extreme training, increase the content of modern technology, expand multi-dimensional competition, highlight continuous day and night confrontation training, strengthen training under extreme boundary conditions, and comprehensively and multilayered wrestling and tempering troops. In fact, only after high-intensity confrontation training, all kinds of dangerous and difficult conditions, complex courses and combat contents are fully trained, can we "fight like training" on the battlefield.
The future war is a life and death duel between the enemy and us. What kind of "shield" the enemy holds, we will practice what kind of "spear". Only in this way can we win the battle in the future and be invincible on the battlefield. We should continue to use confrontational training as the "sharpening stone" to test the military tactics and tactics, summarize experience and practice in "fighting a battle further", and constantly improve the level of combat capability, so as to forge a sharp knife to win future wars.
