The Chinese naval taskforce rescued a Korean ship; China and Kazakh frontier forces conduct joint petrol; A wireless automatic target-marking system developed by the General Staff Headquarters (GSH) passes test; The Second Artillery Force conducts its fir
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    • Reports noted that the Chinese naval escort taskforce on escort mission in the Gulf of Aden and the waters off the Somali coast successfully rescued a merchant ship from the Republic of Korea (ROK) attacked by quite a few pirate boats on 10 February 2011.1

    Another report noted that the frontier defense officers and the Xinjiang Military Area Command (MAC) of the Chinese People’s Liberation Army (PLA) and their counterparts from Kazakhstan had conducted this year’s first joint border patrol from February 5 to 9, 2011. In the joint patrol, the two sides made inspections within their respective defense areas from February 5 to 7, 2011. They carried out cross-border joint patrol on the isolation belt and in the areas well into the territories of both sides from February 8 to 9, 2011. A high official involved in this joint petrol said that the frontier defense contingents from the two countries had been exploring the joint border management and control mechanism since 2009. The joint petrol mainly features joint exercise, joint reconnaissance, joint patrol, joint deterrence and joint interaction.2

    The Chinese defence ministry sources informed that a wireless automatic target-marking system has passed the appraisal of the expert group. The training ground of a department under the General Staff Headquarters (GSH) of the Chinese People’s Liberation Army (PLA) has developed this system. The live-fire test by this system has demonstrated a stable performance, high durability of gun-target and fast and accurate information collection, improving the efficiency of shooting training. As of now, most of the PLA live-fire shooting ranges still manually display, examine and mark targets.3

    In other developments, the new-generation of integrated logistic command platform of the Second Artillery Force (SAF) of the PLA has made its debut in an actual-combat drill. This debut symbolizes an overall improvement of the information-based systematic support capability of the strategic missile force of the PLA.4

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