Exercises Modernization

Steeling and Tempering Through Combat-Realistic Training: Multiple Units Conduct Rigorous Nighttime Training Under Strict and Demanding Conditions

在实战实训中加钢淬火，多支部队从严从难抓实夜间训练

PLA Daily (解放军报) 12 August 2026

Summary

Over recent days, PLA Daily reports that multiple units across the Army, Naval Aviation University, a Northern Theater Command Navy shore-based missile regiment, Rocket Force brigades, and the PAP Guangxi General Corps Mobile Detachment conducted coordinated nighttime training emphasizing covert maneuver, large-formation system-of-systems confrontation (大机群体系对抗), cross-regional missile unit movements of over 100 kilometers, and UAV-robot dog integrated reconnaissance. The article documents a recurring PLA emphasis on randomized, unscripted exercise control (随机导调) as the institutional mechanism for stress-testing night combat readiness across service branches simultaneously. This is standard combined-arms readiness content; its value is as a baseline record of how the PLA currently frames night-combat proficiency—spanning command coordination, emergency procedures, and technology integration—rather than as evidence of a posture change.

Translation

PLA Daily report by correspondents Fan Enda and special correspondent Qi Xucong: Night dark as ink — officers and soldiers of an Army brigade move covertly, engaging in offensive and defensive contests against their adversaries; rain falling through the night — multiple types of aircraft from an Air Force unit roar into the sky, conducting large-formation system-of-systems confrontation (大机群体系对抗)… In recent days, multiple units have seized the opportunity afforded by garrison training to conduct nighttime training under strict and demanding conditions.

Deeply studying the mechanisms of combat (作战机理) to solve real-combat problems. A unit of the Naval Aviation University conducted solid nighttime land-based flight training focused on the challenges of restricted visibility and multiplied risks during maritime night navigation, rigorously examined critical emergency procedures, carried out simulation training with precision and thoroughness, and through focused and refined practice addressed shortfalls and built a solid capability foundation for officers and soldiers. A shore-based missile regiment of the Northern Theater Command Navy organized training targeting the difficulties of operating under low-light conditions; vehicle formations conducted covert maneuvers using faint cold-light lamps, and launch procedures were optimized. A Rocket Force unit systematically reviewed shortfalls and weaknesses from nighttime training in previous years, refined task lists and key difficult subjects, compiled a summary of error-prone operational points, and resolved them item by item, breaking through them one by one.

Relying on science and technology enablement (科技赋能) to accelerate combat power generation (战斗力生成). An Army brigade used war-gaming (兵棋推演) and simulation training to pre-set the various situations that may arise in nighttime combat, adding dozens of nighttime training condition variables. A Rocket Force brigade focused on the difficulties of nighttime driving of special equipment vehicles, innovated nighttime positioning and auxiliary illumination devices, and further improved the efficiency of nighttime vehicle sortie operations. The Mobile Detachment of the People's Armed Police Guangxi General Corps deeply integrated unmanned equipment into nighttime training: on the training ground, reconnaissance UAVs were the first to take to the air, rapidly locking onto target concealment positions using infrared thermal imaging equipment; robot dogs conducted close-in reconnaissance and transmitted situational data back in real time, markedly improving nighttime combat effectiveness.

Units closely aligned with real-combat requirements and consistently integrated random exercise control (随机导调) throughout the entire nighttime training process, tempering the ability to fight and win through unannounced, unscripted adversarial confrontations. A brigade of the 82nd Group Army organized officers and soldiers to maneuver to unfamiliar terrain under conditions of darkness, with special situations (特情) added on the spot, conducting autonomous confrontation centered on reconnaissance and counter-reconnaissance, infiltration and counter-infiltration. A Rocket Force unit conducted a cross-regional maneuver of one hundred kilometers, during which continuous ad hoc exercise control and a succession of special situations arose; officers and soldiers responded to each challenge as it came, coordinating closely, and comprehensively tempered their command coordination and emergency response capabilities.

In recent days, multiple units have been steeling and tempering themselves (加钢淬火) through combat-realistic training, continuously consolidating the fundamentals of night combat, innovating tactics and training methods (战法训法), and steadily improving their capability to execute missions across all time periods, all terrain, and all weather conditions.

Original Chinese

解放军报讯记者范恩达、特约记者齐旭聪报道：夜色如墨，陆军某旅官兵隐蔽潜行，与对手展开攻防较量；夜雨绵绵，空军某部多型战机呼啸升空，展开大机群体系对抗……近日，多支部队利用驻训契机，从严从难抓实夜间训练。深研作战机理，破解实战难题。海军航空大学某部围绕海上夜航视野受限、风险倍增等难题，扎实开展夜间陆基飞行训练，严考关键应急程序，抓实抓细模拟训练，专攻精练补齐短板，打牢官兵能力基础；北部战区海军某岸导团针对微光操作难点组织训练，战车编队凭借微弱冷光灯隐蔽机动，发射流程得到优化；火箭军某部系统梳理历年夜训短板弱项，细化任务清单与重难点课目，汇总易错操作要点，逐项销账、逐条突破。依靠科技赋能，加速战斗力生成。陆军某旅通过兵棋推演、模拟训练等方式，提前预设夜间战斗中可能出现的各类情况，增加数十种夜训条件要素；火箭军某旅聚焦特种装备车辆夜间驾驶难题，革新夜间定位辅助照明装置，进一步提升夜间战车出动效率；武警广西总队机动支队将无人装备深度融入夜间训练，训练场上，侦察无人机率先升空，借助红外热成像设备快速锁定目标藏匿位置，机器狗抵近侦察、回传现场态势，明显提升夜间战斗效能。各部队紧贴实战要求，坚持将随机导调贯穿夜训全程，在无预告、无预案的对抗中锤炼打赢本领。第82集团军某旅在夜暗条件下组织官兵机动至陌生地域，临机增设特情，围绕侦察与反侦察、渗透与反渗透展开自主对抗；火箭军某部跨区机动百公里，途中临机导调不断，特情接踵而至，官兵见招拆招、密切配合，全面锤炼指挥协同与应急处置能力。连日来，多支部队在实战实训中加钢淬火，不断夯实夜战基本功，创新战法训法，持续提升全时段、全地域、全天候遂行任务能力。