PLA Photos & Videos

The temperature in the depth of the Tianshan Mountains in the Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region dropped sharply to －32℃ on Jan. 11, 2011, but the Biedieli Frontier Defense Company of a frontier defense regiment under the Xinjiang Military Area Command did not suspend its border patrol due to the freezing cold. Seen in the photo are three soldiers of the company on patrol duty climbing over a thick ice-clad mountain slope on the way to a border sentry.

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The Xigaze Detachment under the Tibet Contingent of the Chinese People’s Armed Police Force (APF) extensively conducted highly-difficult and high-intensity adaptation training by making use of the frigid weather on the plateau, in a bid to effectively enhance the duty-performance and emergency-handling capability of its troops.(By Fang Heshun and Jiang Xiaolei)

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On January 13, the officers and men of the “Tiger Company” of a frontier defense regiment under the Shenyang Military Area Command of the Chinese People’s Liberation Army went to the Lesser Xingan Mountains in northeast China to conduct tactical training under frigid climate conditions at the temperature of -37℃.(By Wei Jianshun)

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A shipboard aviation troop unit under the North China Sea Fleet of the Navy of the Chinese People’s Liberation Army organized its helicopters to be engaged in tough training on diverse subjects including live-shell shooting, in a bid to improve the troops’ capability of accomplishing multiple tasks. (Photo by Yan Runbo)

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On January 22, a troop unit under the Jinan Military Area Command of the Chinese People’s Liberation Army （PLA）held a military rank conferring ceremony for the recruits. 1000+ recruits were conferred Private military rank after going through more than one month-long military and political training, formally becoming an honorable solider of the PLA.

　　(By Liang Zhijie)

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On January 19，the first day of the Spring Festival busy transportation period, the special operation members of the Huainan Detachment under the Anhui Contingent of the Chinese People’s Armed Police Force (APF) allied with the railway policemen to conduct a mass drill on handling unexpected incidents.(By Liao Fuan and Chen Chuang)

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New Chinese Body Armor
It is based on their Protector line of body armor vest that had been around over a decade but this new version had probably borrowed many design features from US Interceptor design including the overlapping front, side adjustment strips, detachable throat and groin protector, more importantly, the hard plate pockets and MOLLE.

A note on the Chinese hard plate, since they don't have access to the material to make boron carbide ceramic, their higher-end plates use aluminum oxide ceramic but because the Chinese military is typically cheap-stick, most of their hard plates use ballistic steel, which is up to 3 times heavier than the ceramic plates.

Timothy Yan

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This is a google translation..not my fault! February 11th 2011, with the Nanjing Military Region regiment stationed in neighboring Fujian favorable terrain, start harassing, siege, reconnaissance, camouflage, and other tactical intensive training. After the Spring Festival, the group started strictly from the hard work of military training in the new year, their upcoming real soldiers took on the cross exercise task, set a variety of battlefield situations, focused on strengthening the ban came in actual combat environment training for Cooperative Engagement Capability. (Jiang Wei)

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A recruit with an engineering regiment of the PLA stationed in Shaanxi Province is undergoing aiming and shooting training with a rifle days ago. (Photo by Yuan Bo)

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The infantry and tank elements of an armored regiment under the Xinjiang Military Area Command of the PLA conduct tactical coordination training amid snowstorm on Feb. 15, 2011. The armored regiment took its troops to an unfamiliar area with complex terrains in the snow-covered Gobi for confrontation training on such subjects as rapid maneuver and tactical coordination in early spring of the year. (Photo by Liu Yong)

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　On February 15，a regiment under the Xinjiang Military Area Command of the Chinese People’s Liberation Army took its small caliber gun element to the depth of the snow-covered mountains to practice coordination，command and combat skill. The picture shows the squad leader of the element is organizing the training.
　　By Shi Bing

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bd popeye said:

Thank you Mr T!

How's he gonna fire that weapon with those mittens on? He's not. These fellas need gloves.

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maozedong said:

China's most elite troops: the north-west frontier cavalry.

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bladerunner said:

Any opposing force, with carefully sited machine guns will decimate that cavalry charge in seconds

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