Soldiers build 900-meter-long pontoon in 27 minutes

chinadaily.com.cn | Updated: 2017-08-24 07:28

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Around 1,000 officers and soldiers from a pontoon-bridge brigade took part in a river-crossing exercise on a section of Yangtze River on August 22, 2017. Within 26 minutes and 52 seconds, a 887.5-meter-long steel-structure pontoon was successfully built across the river.[Photo/Chinanews.com]

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