Chinese military conducts nuclear biological and chemical warfare drill in Tibet

Article By- Naman Sharma                                                             Published-  DEC 16, 2021

                                                                                                                            2:17 am IST 

As we are aware of china's increasing aggression near the South China Sea and the Sino-Indian border in Ladakh and Arunachal Pradesh as per the results' china's PLA has carried out an anti-nuclear, biological, and chemical warfare drill in the Tibetan plateau amid increasing tension with India on Ladakh issue. This drill has major importance as seen from China's lens as it carries very strong message to Delhi that china is up for any of the nuclear and biological war-like situations in the near future.

As per the china's government mouthpiece media 

{This exercise was carried out at an elevation of 4500 meters, featuring various assault groups, commandos, and set of theme of joint, multidimensional combat in mountainous region who are specially trained for this kind of situations as reported by China's Central Television (CCTV). By the way, this drill is going to make India insecure about their borders, and it is a high time for India to also do similar kinds of drills to counter china's dirty games on border.

In this exercise a combined arms brigade mobilized and maneuvered to the mission area and launched the first wave of attack in midnight, as artillery forces rained down munitions on hostile reconnaissance and early warning facilities using howitzers and multiple rocket launcher systems, before destroying hostile communication centers and helicopter pads. 

 

In the early hours of the second day of the drills, a reconnaissance unit took vantage points by getting to the peak of a 6,100-meter mountain. They set up observation positions and provided guidance for precision strikes on key hostile targets behind defense lines.

Anti-aircraft batteries deployed by a defense brigade launched missiles to intercept hostile aircraft, clearing the sky of enemy threats, and that was when the main forces—tanks, infantry fighting vehicles and assault vehicles—pushed forward to capture hostile positions.

Amid the heated combat, an intelligence reconnaissance brigade started electromagnetic disruption of hostile communications facilities, giving the troops another advantage.

Attack helicopters of an army aviation brigade took off for additional multidimensional fire support, as the artillery positions were exposed and the self-propelled howitzers and multiple rocket launcher systems had to be relocated.

Supporting the march, sappers cleared vital lanes of obstacles with explosives, and transport helicopters carried scouts who landed deep behind enemy defense lines for infiltration missions.

Logistics support units kept sending munitions and food to the frontline, keeping the troops in good combat status as they broke through enemy defense lines before noon.

After neutralizing all enemies and seizing control of all hostile positions, the troops switched to the defense, marking the end of the drills.

The exercise comprehensively explored the combat performance of all the units and all the weapons and equipment, as they further enhance combat capabilities of joint operations, precision strikes, high-efficiency damage and comprehensive logistics support in high-altitude regions, CCTV said.} 

As according  to the last month report published by pentagon, which mainly focuses on how china is advancing his nuclear weapons and missile production which raises various concerns regarding china's future plans. Also, as per another report published by Pentagon titled “MILITARY AND SECURITY DEVELOPMENT INVOLVING, PLA 2021”  provides various information about production and testing of various double use toxins which can play a key role in biological warfare against the opposing country. Based on this information US cannot certify if china is following Chemical Weapon Convention (CWC)  or not. 

Basically China is playing their psychological games with Indian government by doing this kind of  prodding drills to discourage their enemy from within. This kind of tactics were used by muscular countries to show off their powers from a very long time for e.g., USA has used similar kind of tactics against USSR by making a short movie named “Duck And Cover” which mainly targets on what to do if nuclear bomb was dropped in the USA. 

Anyway Indian government should think about these drills and should also give a strong answer to China by doing such kinds of exercises on our side too.