So what's the point in removing the crew from a vehicle which will be in the rear line?
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Easy. Cost cutting. The PLA is a military of volunteers and China is not a poor country anymore. People are expensive. We talk about things like helmets, SMGs, armor, camo, etc but such stuff aren't really expensive with the exception of night vision and radio (I mean post-2005 ones). Their combined price is usually lower than a single month's salary of an infantryman in European militaries. Then there are accommodation costs, training costs, hospitalization costs and veteran benefits if he gets wounded or crippled. If he dies for some reason you need to pay money to his family for their entire life and organize a funeral. And you also need to have more officers to manage more people and officers are incredibly expensive.
More people in the military is really beneficial though, even for just attrition absorption and fatigue management reasons. This is why conscription is a must for countries that actually face a real threat. China and most of the West don't conscript because of sociological reasons and they don't face a real threat of getting conquered.
73rd Group Army's PCL-191 and PCL-181 deployment.
The event took place at:
24.7886, 118.7105
Shihu Port Industrial Park (石湖港工业园区), Shishi, Quanzhou, Fujian, China. 73rd Group Army's PCL-191 and PCL-181 on deployment.
The event took place at:
24.7886, 118.7105
Shihu Port Industrial Park (石湖港工业园区), Shishi, Quanzhou, Fujian, China
The Shihu Port Industrial Park seems to be occupied by two companies, a small concrete manufacturer in the SE corner and the rest by Shishi Jialong Petrochemical Textile Fiber Co., Ltd. (石狮市佳龙石化纺纤有限公司). The event took place within the Petrochemical's ground.
While the facility is civilian/industrial, it seems the named petrochemical company halted operations here at least before 2022. The below mentioned PLA assets stationed at this facility since early September of 2022.
There are a total of (at least) 6x PCL-191, 6x PCL-191 loader vehicle, 18x PCL-181 and other 40+ various 4/6 wheeled light vehicles/tru
cks.
The event took place at:
24.7886, 118.7105
Shihu Port Industrial Park (石湖港工业园区), Shishi, Quanzhou, Fujian, China. 73rd Group Army's PCL-191 and PCL-181 on deployment.
The event took place at:
24.7886, 118.7105
Shihu Port Industrial Park (石湖港工业园区), Shishi, Quanzhou, Fujian, China
The Shihu Port Industrial Park seems to be occupied by two companies, a small concrete manufacturer in the SE corner and the rest by Shishi Jialong Petrochemical Textile Fiber Co., Ltd. (石狮市佳龙石化纺纤有限公司). The event took place within the Petrochemical's ground.
While the facility is civilian/industrial, it seems the named petrochemical company halted operations here at least before 2022. The below mentioned PLA assets stationed at this facility since early September of 2022.
There are a total of (at least) 6x PCL-191, 6x PCL-191 loader vehicle, 18x PCL-181 and other 40+ various 4/6 wheeled light vehicles/tru
cks.
by78
Lieutenant General
What's the significance of this so-called deployment? Why does the movement and location of a few vehicles from more than six months ago deserve a post?
A quick glance at your posting history at in our flagship military forums shows that so very many of your posts are links to poorly sourced articles and dubious tweets, frequently accompanied by lazy one-liners or no commentary of your own, not to mention that many of your posts had tenuous connections to the topics at hand, if not being outright off-topic.
Sinodefence isn't a place for low-effort information saturation. It isn't a news aggregation website or a depository of sundry and tangential information.
Please be considerate of the wider community and stop pushing your mundane litanies of trifling farragoes that actively lower the quality of this forum.
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by78
Lieutenant General
How do you know these vehicles belong to the 73rd Group Army?
You objected against this post. The post was useless as per you. I am surprised at the interest now
by78
Lieutenant General
Why are you being so evasive? You're the one who claimed those vehicles belong to the 73rd Army Group. I'm trying to figure out how you know. It's a legitimate question.