Gunship Corps: Powerful Wing of China's Land ArmyAfter a dozen years of strenuous training, the Land Army of the Chinese People's Liberation Army ( PLA) has developed its Gunship Corps into a powerful rapid response force.Over the past few years, officers and men of the Gunship Corps have focused their training on hedgehopping, which is of great importance for increasing the rapid response and aerial combat capabilities of the PLA Land Army, according to army sources. In hundreds of war games, the well-trained gunship squads have played a unique role in promoting the integration of land and aerial troops in modern warfare. Nowadays, the maneuverable, all-weather gunships have become a major means of transport for soldiers patrolling the land border, replacing horses and sleighs. Meanwhile, the Gunship Corps is widely used for civil and relief missions. To date, The gunship troops have manned over 490 flights for combating forest fires and floods and recovery of satellites, over 30,000 flights for transporting over 80,000 passengers, 941 patients and wounded people, and 8,063 tons of goods. |
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