Global Times:

The Chinese People’s Liberation Army (PLA) Xinjiang Military Command recently received delivery of China’s latest field air defense missile system and 122 millimeter (mm) caliber multiple rocket launcher system, with many soldiers seen equipped with night vision goggles.

The anti-aircraft missile and rocket artillery are the fifth and sixth new sets of equipment that entered service with the PLA Xinjiang Military Command plateau forces in May, marking a busy month of weapons commissioning for border defense troops in western China, and demonstrating the PLA’s capability of safeguarding national sovereignty and territorial integrity for both the international community and the Chinese people, analysts said on Wednesday.

A regiment affiliated with the PLA Xinjiang Military Command and deployed in a snowy plateau region at an elevation of more than 4,500 meters received the delivery of a new type of anti-aircraft missile and a new type of rocket artillery, js7tv.cn, a PLA video news website reported on Wednesday.

Dozens of vehicle-based weapons and equipment systems could be seen in the report footage taken at the commissioning ceremony…



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