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White paper outlines China's air defense (3)

(Xinhua)

18:47, April 16, 2013

Hou said command organs and armed forces at all levels of the PLAAF maintain combat readiness duties 24 hours a day, year round and are ready for orders for operations. In case of any situation, command organs at all levels, aircraft on combat readiness duties and ground air defense weapons can make up their mind to take actions.

Hou added that the PLAAF's command, warning and combat readiness systems are connected as a network with cable, wireless, satellite and other communications facilities, forming a command and warning network with PLAAF command posts as the core, field command posts as the basis, and technical surveillance, ground radars, electronic countermeasures, air units, surface-to-air missiles and antiaircraft guns in combat readiness duties as the pillar.

The network can quickly exchange information with superior and subordinate organs, take actions as a whole, mainly adapting the rapid, sudden and quickly-changing air combats.

In recent years, air units, most of them based in coastal areas, have scrambled more than 1,000 sorties annually, and ground air defense units have exercised maneuvers hundreds of times, in a bid to identify abnormal air situations, or carry out air patrols and reconnaissance missions.





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