Air force learns to think on new lines

In a major anti-aircraft drill, brigade simulates range of threats that China could encounter

Even though Chinese film-makers have yet to present an air action movie as dazzling as the legendary Top Gun, which featured Hollywood star Tom Cruise and the F-14 fighter, they will be pleased to know that the Chinese air force is preparing what could be source material for their own such film.

An adversary brigade was recently established by the People's Liberation Army air force and sent to confront the PLA ground force's air defense units during a two-week anti-aircraft drill that concluded on Tuesday.