In early summer, an armored unit was moving swiftly deep in the Yanshan Mountain. Boom! Boom! Several armored vehicles of the "red army" were hit by fierce enemy fire, some broke their caterpillar tracks, and some had their gasoline tanks perforated.

When the officers and men of the armament support team of the "red army" received the order of repair, they swiftly rushed to the battlefield under the "enemy' fire. They sometimes hid in the wasteland, sometimes rush out of the forest, sometimes shot towards the sky, sometimes did rush repairs and rush provisions. In a word, they fought with the "enemy" with great tactical skill and flexibility .

That was a scene of a comprehensive maneuver for armament support carried out by a group army of the Beijing Military Area Command. Han Yueyuan, the director of the armament department of the group army, wearing battle fatigues, told the reporter, "In recent years, through regularizing wartime armament support, and tapping scientific potential of armament support, we have remarkably improved armament support capacity of the army."

Just then, a piercing air-raid siren was heard. Three "enemy" bombers flew towards the "red army". After several dive bombing, a series of deafening explosions echoed in the valley and heavy smoke blocked the sight of officers and men. Despite enemy's wanton bombing, the "red army" troops remained calm. The command element kept delivering fighting orders; anti-air artillery element soon organized firepower to shot air targets, forming a fire net in the blue sky; engineer element quickly restored the damaged road; repair element rushed to repair the damaged tanks…

The "red army" has clear division of labor among different arms in this three-dimensional battle; their coordinated support to the fighting troops is just like an iron fist made up of five fingers. Army Commander Li Shiming said that, it was a pleasant change, which had been realized since the army scientifically regularized its armament support. They had consulted several experts and scholars for their advice, and compiled regulations like "Standards for Combat Readiness of Armament" and "Wartime Armament Support ", providing a scientific basis for armament build-up and support.

According to sources, in recent years, the group army has developed dozens of repair tools for mechanical equipment in field operations, and won over one hundred technology innovation awards. Their rush-repair and rush-provision methods have made it possible for the support unit to change from manual operation to automatic operation. They have also invented over one hundred tactics, such as, cross-region mobile anti-chemical support, long-distance support, and air-raid camouflage, etc., which have greatly enhanced comprehensive support capacity of modern armament.

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