PLA's EWA forms all-time all-territory combat capability

A 24-hour continuous flight training conducted by various types of early warning aircraft (EWA) of an aviation division under the Air Force of the Chinese People's Liberation Army concluded successfully on the morning of April 3, 2013.

Lv Jianqiang, commander of the aviation division, told PLA Daily that the training results show that PLA's airborne early warning combat force has formed all-time all-territory early warning combat capabilities.

According to Li Jinguo, director of the flight training, the quick reaction capability of the troop units has been effectively enhanced through such a real combat oriented flight exercise of the early warning commanding system.

It is learnt that the flight training has set a number of records of EWA training on such subjects as ultimate flying range, ultimate flight intensity, ultimate flight duration and so on.