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Source record CMC Political Work Department · 2026-07-11

Blazing Hot! A Close-Up Look at Artillery Direct-Fire Shooting on Site

超燃!直击火炮直瞄射击现场

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DeskChina Desk
Publishing institutionCMC Political Work Department
Source outletPLA Daily (解放军报) (pla_daily)
Source languagezh-Hans — an attribute of the source, not of this record
Source-stated publication date2026-07-11
Original URLhttp://www.81.cn/bz_208549/16473138.html
Collected at2026-07-11 14:17:41 — collection metadata, not a publication time
Content fingerprint4ede1235255e6fac19d1e9e30909798eda0b8f299a1c925b08af2c826a88e3b8 — taken when the record was captured, over the stored original title and text
Collection run85
Analysis modelclaude-sonnet-4-6
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铁甲驰骋,炮声震天 一场火炮直瞄实弹射击考核 在华北某训练场打响 行军途中。夏熙康 摄 各队伍快速占领阵地 完成射击准备 炮口昂首,直指远处靶标 装弹、瞄准、锁定 各炮手听从指挥、配合默契 动作干脆利落 “预备——放!” 指挥员一声令下 炮弹出膛 直扑目标区域 火炮射击瞬间。夏熙康 摄 “首发炮弹精准命中靶标” 观察所传来捷报 但战斗没有停歇 新目标随即出现 各炮迅速调整射击诸元 第二轮打击接续展开 一发发炮弹呼啸而出 靶标处接连腾起滚滚浓烟 火炮射击瞬间。刘尚玮 摄 此次实弹射击考核 全面检验了该部队快速机动、精准打击的能力

Summary

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An unidentified artillery unit conducted a direct-fire live-fire assessment at an unspecified training ground in northern China, testing rapid position seizure, target acquisition, and sequential engagement of multiple targets. The article documents a standard unit-level gunnery assessment cycle but names no formation, no officials, and no location precisely enough to track against order of battle or training calendars — its value is as a baseline record of how PLA artillery units frame direct-fire proficiency standards and the specific sequence of tasks (maneuver, emplacement, data adjustment, re-engagement) used to evaluate them.

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Source text. CMC Political Work Department. "超燃!直击火炮直瞄射击现场." PLA Daily (解放军报), 2026-07-11. http://www.81.cn/bz_208549/16473138.html.

As held. Indo-Pacific Record, China Desk Corpus, Record 2349, Snapshot — 2026-08-26 (3,574 records).

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The record number and this record path are locators inside the 2026-08-26 snapshot. Neither is a DOI, accession number, permanent identifier, public permalink, or published route. See identifiers and citation guidance.