After maneuvering more than 5,000-odd km day and night by water, railway and highway, and having trained on 40-odd subjects with actual troops, full gears and live ammunitions in the whole process, a missile brigade of the Nanjing Military Area Command has successfully completed its exercise of more than three months on the topic of joint firepower strike in the coldest days of the year. The brigade has created a dozen of "firsts" of the missile troops of the PLA Army in the exercise and has honed its troops' capabilities of marching, fighting, eating, camping, hiding, repairing and conducting joint operation under the information conditions. 　　

　　The brigade broke away from its traditional exercise modes of independent operation, phasic objectives and firing under stationary state, and took its troops to unfamiliar battlefield environment to conduct exercise under the conditions of "being filled with gun smoke", so to speak, with the troops running into "hard attack" and "soft destruction" in the whole process. In places ranging from complex sea waters to scrub forests, from the high mountains to the vast plains, the brigade drilled on 14 newly-added subjects such as the anti-reconnaissance, anti-jamming and anti-air-attack in long-distance mobile missile launching, tested the technical performances of dozens of new armaments in joint operation, joint training and joint exercise, applied over 70 armament technical innovative achievements and came up with 12 new training and fighting methods in joint operation including dispersed disposition, mobile launching and converging fire attack. They also took the advantage of the execrable weather conditions to drill on subjects of quick evacuation, hiding the real armaments by displaying the dummies and mobile missile launching.

　　By Lü Feng and Ni Minzhi