The Xining Joint Logistic Support Center of the Chinese People's Liberation Army (PLA) has conducted an exercise to train the force's use of advanced technologies and equipment to support oil transport in real combat.
The center, located in Xining City of northwest China's Qinghai Province, is responsible for all strategic battle support missions of the PLA Western Command.
The exercise was carried out at an unfamiliar area. The surveying and mapping team arrived first. The soldiers used drones to quickly study the terrain and relayed the collected data to their command post, where the commander built a three-dimensional digital map of the area with the help of a newly developed decision aid system in a short time.
In mountainous and complicated road sections and densely forested areas where vehicles and personnel cannot reach, the soldiers used civilian crawler transporters and new-type load-bearing passive exoskeletons to carry pipeline equipment to mission areas.
With the three-dimensional digital map, the commander quickly selected an optimal route for the emergency repair team, and dispatched a drone to guide the team, so as to ensure that the repair crews could reach the mission location in the shortest time.
During the exercise, the force also tested the practical application effect of lighting drones in nighttime missions on suspended and crossing installations, and used new energy for power supply in the whole process.
"We focused on the use of 'technology plus' oil support means to carry out targeted and refined trainings and deeply tap our potentials, striving to practice skills to the extreme and use equipment to the extreme, so as to continue to accelerate the improvement of the actual combat support ability of our force," said Cao Jiang, a participant in the exercise.
PLA logistic support center tests advanced equipment in oil transport exercise
