Red-Blue Game, Electromagnetic Clash! Watch the Radar Soldiers Train on the Battlefield

Recently, the Air Force Early Warning Academy's "Thunder-2026" graduation students' comprehensive exercise is in full swing. During the exercise, the directing team continuously increased the difficulty and intensity, setting up challenging situations and crises on the spot, forcing the students to practice strategies, tactics, command, and coordination in a real combat context, comprehensively testing the students' ability to transition to combatants and injecting "combat genes" into the young radar operators who are about to go to grassroots positions.

The participating students formed red and blue teams, using radar, electronic countermeasures, drones, and other combat elements to quickly carry out mission planning based on "enemy situation" reports. The students followed a training model of "virtual troops + real troops + data troops," dividing tasks to draft mission briefs, tactical application plans, and operation cards, utilizing simulation training systems and real equipment for operations, striving for precision and efficiency in every data entry and command issued.

Air Force Early Warning Academy student Xiao Guozhan

During the exercise, many terms and concepts from textbooks became special situations and challenges on the training ground. Faced with the constantly changing complex electromagnetic parameters on the screen, how to complete the closed loop of search, lock, identify, and decide was a comprehensive test of the theoretical knowledge and practical skills we learned over four years in military school.

During the exercise, the blue team suddenly increased the intensity of electronic interference, causing multiple red team radars to be affected, and the previously clear air situation tracks on the display were instantly swallowed by noise.

With the command issued by the red team radar group commander, soon, multiple radar sub-teams captured the traces of the blue team's infiltrating forces from different directions, and the target tracks reappeared on the screen.

Air Force Early Warning Academy student Zhang Jingkai

In this exercise, I served as the commander of the red team's simulated communication countermeasure station. Through the coordinated combat in the system confrontation, I trained my organizational and command abilities and gained a deeper understanding of the future complex electromagnetic battlefield.

Faced with the blue team's continuous high-intensity reconnaissance and electronic interference, Zhang Jingkai, the student serving as the commander of the red team's simulated communication countermeasure station, and his comrades closely monitored the spectrum terminal, calculating interference intensity in real-time, locating interference sources, synchronizing intelligence from the radar network, quickly tearing through electromagnetic concealment, and opening up the system's intelligence link.

Air Force Early Warning Academy instructor Jiang Zhimin

The subjects we set were completely aligned with the training requirements of the troops. Through this comprehensive exercise, the students gained a deeper understanding of troop operations, and their overall quality and combat skills have significantly improved, laying an important foundation for their future positions in the military.

Reporters | Yu Hongchun, Chen Fei, Chen Sizhu, He Chenze, Tang Zhe, He Shuhuai