PLA's new-type armed helicopter forms combat power

Army aviation troop units of the Chinese People's Liberation Army (PLA) staged an air confrontation drill of armed helicopters at the end of April, 2013 in north China to verified air combat tactics of the new-type armed helicopters under complex weather conditions.

The success of the air confrontation drill marked the new-type armed helicopters have formed full combat power, said a leader of the Army Aviation Department of the General Staff Headquarters (GSH) of the PLA.

The Army Aviation Department of the PLA GSH has organized the army aviation units equipped with the new-type armed helicopters to carry out a series of actual-combat training since the beginning of training session this year.