China-India border: PLA troops, jets, artillery ‘send warning shot with Tibet drill’
- Video posted to PLA Daily shows a joint operation and new weaponry in action at an altitude of 4,700 metres
- ‘India is a big trading partner of China, [which] needs the Indian market. So the drill is just a warning,’ says military analyst
In footage of the drill posted on the PLA Daily website on Monday, several units from the People’s Liberation Army’s Tibet Military District were shown occupying an enemy’s key command centre at an altitude of 4,700 metres (15,400 feet).
The drill involved infantry, artillery, army aviation, special operation forces, electronic warfare, engineers and chemical defence units, the video stated, without saying when it was conducted.
It was designed to test the ability of the various units to work together, as well as use new weapons systems deployed to the region in recent months.
In the footage, PLA air defence artillery troops bring down drones similar to Indian reconnaissance devices, air force fighter jets drop missiles to paralyse an enemy command centre, and ground force artillery target a field with precision strikes.