Highlights of President Hu Jin Tao's inspection of PLA HK Garrison, 29-06-2012

MwRYum

Major
[video=youtube;t821RvjynT0]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t821RvjynT0[/video]

Probably the only highlight of this mini-parade (originally slated for tomorrow but due to inbound typhoon brought forward to today, and trust me that was a good call because it is raining and very windy outside right now!) was the quasi-public debut of the QBZ95-1:
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You can tell a "95-1" from the "old 95" by the dibbit above the pistolgrip, that's where the selector switch relocated at:
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As well as the pattern and spread of the forward handgrip, the grooves are more forward; and the base for tactical attachments at the base of the front sight:
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According to Bluffer's Guide HK air defense inclusive of HQ-9 SAM, not seen here but we got HQ-64 shown instead:
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And we can tell they stationed at least 4 Z-8KH:
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Insignius

Junior Member
The HK garrison has even something better:

LD-2000 land based CIWS - note the trucks beside the HQ-6D formation.
 

Insignius

Junior Member
This, of course, leads to the question why the HK garisson needs anti PGM/cruise missile defenses at all... Anyone would dare to attack such an international city?
 
I do wonder if there's any actual need of attacking HK or the placement of military units, since aside from stationing troops as a symbolic move, HK is almost as unarmed as Geneva. Regardless, would stationing troops make HK more vulnerable? Or would HK be able to escape as a target because of its international status as a destination of anything BUT military?
 

plawolf

Lieutenant General
Come on guys, surely you all remember the very explicit threats Taiwan made, when Chen was in power and tensions were high, about reducing HK and Shanghai to ruin if the PRC ever tried to take Taiwan back?

They even made plans to try and bomb the Three Gorges Damn.

HK has no military significance other than the actual units the PLA stations there, which are entirely for defensive purposes anyways, but it is a critically important economic and financial centre for China, and as such, would be well worth protecting, especially since it's location makes it very vulnerable and there would be very little warning or chances to mount an effective intercept if someone who wanted to attack China selected it as one of the first places to attack.

In addition, it's close proximity to the manufacturing hubs and shipyards of the Pearl River Delta would also allow long range SAMs like HQ9s to provide cover for those areas as well, and you will get a little extra range and warning time with HQ9s in HK rather than on the mainland. That could be why the HQ9s are still in HK even though tensions with Taiwan has eased significantly lately.

Although saying that, has anyone spotted HQ9s in or around HK recently? You would think that with somewhere as densely populated and developed as HK, someone would have spotted them at some point or know where they are normally based. Are we 100% sure the HQ9s are still there?
 

Insignius

Junior Member
Sounds fair enough. Never thought of the most obvious reason, that any invading army could just as well use HK as bridgehead to the rest of China. It's an ideal natural harbour ontop of that!

Anyone have a breakdown of the entire PLA Garrison in HK?

The HK garisson is brigade sized and currently in transformation to become an integrated brigade battle group with different specialized battalions. I'll try to find more accurate TOE and Orbat, but as far as I know, they have some very good stuff enabling them to be some kind of testbed for new organizational structures too, leading some people to believe that they might be prepared for combat duties beside their garisson job.
 

vesicles

Colonel
Sounds fair enough. Never thought of the most obvious reason, that any invading army could just as well use HK as bridgehead to the rest of China. It's an ideal natural harbour ontop of that!



The HK garisson is brigade sized and currently in transformation to become an integrated brigade battle group with different specialized battalions. I'll try to find more accurate TOE and Orbat, but as far as I know, they have some very good stuff enabling them to be some kind of testbed for new organizational structures too, leading some people to believe that they might be prepared for combat duties beside their garisson job.

Hong Kong is still separated from China by a river. Back in the old days, people who wanted to escape the mainland still had to swim to Hing Kong. So it would not be a good place as a bridgehead.
 
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