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2022-09-06 16:01:08chinadaily.com.cn Editor : Li Yan
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The front-line command group of the People's Liberation Army's Western Theater holds a rescue mission briefing at Moxi township of Luding county, Sichuan province on Sept 6, 2022. (Photo/Official WeChat Account of PLA Western Theater)
Some 1,900 soldiers from the People's Liberation Army's Western Theater Command were dispatched to help with earthquake relief and rescue on Tuesday morning, following the 6.8-magnitude earthquake that hit Luding county in Sichuan province on Monday.
A front-line command group reached Moxi township, the epicenter of the earthquake, after traveling for six hours overnight. The group has established contact with local governments and emergency management departments to gather emerging details of the situation and to implement a unified response, the theater command said in a news release.
Immediately after the quake on Monday afternoon, the Western Theater Command tasked affiliated authorities, including the PLA ground and air forces, the Sichuan Provincial Military Command, and the Tibet Military Command, with immediate rescue operations and told them to stand by for further mobilization.
Meanwhile, nearly 300 soldiers and militiamen were sent to the hardest hit towns of Yanzigou and Lengqi with tents, engineering shovels and other emergency materials to search the rubble, set up tented accommodation and take the wounded for treatment.
In addition, about 400 armed police officers equipped with emergency rescue equipment headed toward the epicenter by vehicle and on foot from two directions, reaching the severely hit towns of Moxi and Detuo three hours after the quake.
A further 100 soldiers from the Tibet Military Command were dispatched to the disaster, equipped with daily necessities and 12 rescue vehicles, including kitchen trailers and transport trucks, to support emergency responders.
 

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Any news/rumours about a next-generation Chinese tank to supercede the Type-99A2? Its a capable tank and a peer of the US M1A2 sep3 Abrams and the Russian T-90MS, but the Russians unveiled their next-generation T-14 Armata in 2015 and its serial production is slated to begin this year.

I understand that land forces, especially heavy land forces unable to be repurposed for amphibious use, are not China's military focus right now. But there should still be some development going on regarding a next-gen MBT, and I was wondering if anyone has gotten any whiffs about it.
 

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I heard that the VT-4 for the Pakistani Army is more technologically advanced than the 99A. Is this true? If so, what exactly is more advanced?
 

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Any news/rumours about a next-generation Chinese tank to supercede the Type-99A2? Its a capable tank and a peer of the US M1A2 sep3 Abrams and the Russian T-90MS, but the Russians unveiled their next-generation T-14 Armata in 2015 and its serial production is slated to begin this year.

I understand that land forces, especially heavy land forces unable to be repurposed for amphibious use, are not China's military focus right now. But there should still be some development going on regarding a next-gen MBT, and I was wondering if anyone has gotten any whiffs about it.

Type 99 is a very good tank, the next thing up from it would need to be a wonderbar weapon to surpass its predecessor. Most modern tanks today are mainly models made in the 80s kitted with extra protection measures making them harder targets to kill. The SEP3 is basically just another tried and true Abrams tank with the latest protection measures and maybe a new ammunition type or cannon barrel. The Russians battle doctrine isn't the same as it was in Soviet times, they're adopting more Western approaches to war now, this is reflected most with the T-14 Aramata, doing away with the overwhelming numerical rush tactics.
 

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Within 24 hours after quake, rescue troops from Western Theater Command rush to Luding​


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EditorLin Congyi Time2022-09-07 00:34:24

BEIJING, Sept. 6 -- Luding County, Ganzi Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture in southwest China's Sichuan Province was punched by a 6.8-magnitude earthquake at 12:52 of September 5. Soon after the earthquake, the army under the PLA Western Theater Command immediately activated contingency plans and related troop units with professional rescuers were ready for disaster relief missions.
At 15:30 Spet.5, the aviation troops, engineering troops and medical service troops assigned to the 77th Group Army finished preparations and waited for order to set out.
At 18:10 Spet.5, a convoy of 28 vehicles and over 200 service members carrying rescue equipment sent by a brigade of the 77th Group Army under the PLA Western Theater Command hurried to the quake-hit area. At 00:20 a.m. Sept. 6, they arrived at the epicenter, Detuo town and started rescue missions in groups.
At 07:40 a.m. Sept. 6, an engineering brigade under the 77th Group Army dispatched over 200 service members and 28 vehicles loaded with tents and other living supplies to the quake-stricken area for rescue mission.
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A wounded woman gets off a transportation helicopter attached to an army aviation brigade under the 77th Group Army at the Fenghuangshan Airport in Chengdu, capital city of Sichuan Province on Sept. 6, 2022.
At 08:00 Sept.6, two transportation helicopters and 12 crew members from an army aviation brigade under the 77th Group Army flew to the seriously-hit Moxi town in Luding County for rescue mission.
As of 17:00 Sept. 6, the two helicopters have transferred 27 wounded people out of the quake-hit area and delivered 1,400 kilos of disaster-relief supplies.

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