Beijing (TDI): Various intelligent technologies, including exoskeleton, robot dog and drone in combination with high-power lasers were utilized in recent exercises conducted by the Chinese People’s Liberation Army (PLA).
In a recent logistics support drill organized by a regiment under the PLA Xinjiang Military Command in an undisclosed plateau region, the regiment employed a manned-unmanned collaborative model to boost combat unit support, the PLA Army said in a statement on Monday.
Faced with terrain obstacles that hindered the convoy’s advance, the forces used all-terrain vehicles and unmanned vehicles to push forward mission.
After learning the roads were sabotaged, the forces unloaded supplies from vehicles and used aerial drones and exoskeletons to bypass the damaged areas and reach their destination, according to the PLA Army.
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In a separate drill, a maritime defense engineering unit under the PLA Northern Theater Command practiced explosive ordnance disposal at a shooting range on an island in Bohai Bay, the forces deployed a drone equipped with high-power laser.
A drone was utilized first to search for explosives and mark their coordinates, then the laser was deployed to dispose of them.
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High-power lasers offer a safer and more efficient way to dispose explosives by enabling remote operations from several hundred meters away, with power raised by three times and the time required to dispose of an explosive reduced to one fifth.
