I agree , the main disadvantage that PLAGF has compared to US army is the Army Aviation ,but that a different subject completely
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Your original question was about tube artillery, so I assume you asked the question on a false premise (underestimating how many 155mm tube artillery pieces the PLAGF actually had).
The nature of these questions and even this follow up is a bit strange because it's like you're trying to directly compare the PLAGF and US Army structures whereas they really need to be treated in their own contexts.
Bit of a tangent, but why did they retain divisions there anyhow? Everywhere else switched over to brigades.
Probably because of Terrain friction, distance involved, appreciated force friction and maybe even lessons from Russian Retention of Divisions at few places
Not really, they just do different things. PLAGF formations have much better built in air defenses, and the army aviation is geared towards anti air/precision strike.
Much of what US army relies on for mass strikes, PLAGF doesn't use aircraft for but rather guided missiles.
Overall, China's forces are geared for defense and to some degree assumes the enemy needs to have a network centric doctrine - the PLA doctrine is to break the joints (force multipliers, network nodes, logistical bottlenecks) of an aggressor army, which assumes that said army must be organized to begin with. Against a small insurgent force, China can likely repeat NATO style battle, but it's not what the whole PLA structure is geared for.
That's a mortar? I thought it's the 122mm Howitzer? The shells displayed sure looks more like howitzer roundsSelf-propelled mortar with autoloader.
