CCTV recently reported on the Chinese army’s individual warfighter information equipment, showing its powerful battlefield information perception capabilities.
According to the report, an exercise was carried out in a plateau area with an altitude of more than 4,500 meters. The command post accurately grasped the real-time dynamics of each officer and soldier through the individual information equipment carried by the soldiers, and realized the mastery of the overall battlefield situation.
This advanced individual soldier information system can not only display basic data such as individual soldier’s position and status, but also can synchronize the images seen by soldiers in real-time through the camera located on the personal terminal, and achieve full control of the enemy’s information. At the same time, this system can also deliver the command’s combat instructions to each soldier’s terminal, making it possible to understand the squad-level operations.
It is also reported that the system equipped by the Tibet Military Region for soldiers can guide the shelling with one-click. If it is picked up by the Indian army, it will self-destruct. All individual information is on the command screen. The report mentioned that if a soldier is seriously injured but does not want to be captured, the activation of the self-destructing device can not only protect the dignity of the soldier, but also prevent the enemy from obtaining any information about the system. If the commander finds on the screen that there is a long distance between the single soldier and the troops, and the two sides cannot get in touch with each other, it will also self-destruct remotely.
Military expert Ma Dingsheng believes that this electronic device is unreliable, because once the Indian army obtains the secrets used to remotely control such single soldier equipment and take advantage of the self-destruct function for remote destruction and other operations, they could determine the battle in an instant.