Joint exercise of PLA army and PLAAF on air-ground coordinated attack

CCTV military channel and PLA Pictorial recently reported the Joint exercise of PLA army and PLAAF in Chengdu Military Region. It reflects the PLA’s progress in air-ground coordinated attack capability under information war condition.

High rank officers from PLA army and air force are using campaign information system.

Information Center is synthetizing various collected information

Joint headquaters is distributing “Six maps and one form”: ground situation map, air situation map, sea situation map, electromagnetic situation map, etc.

Air force officer is intructing army soldiers on how to designate ground target for air attacker

PLA soldiers use wireless PDA instead of voice device to designate ground target by directly clicking the attacked position on electronic map in PDA. This picture may imply that PLA already equipped air-ground integrated data link???

Traditional methods are also in operation: using smoke cannonball to designate ground target for air attacker.