It's insanely rare to find coverage of Chinese arms and doctrines without an unbearable amount of manipulative narration or tone policing. *Refreshing*

It's refreshing to see a video really about PLA structure & equipment, without hearing a india accent talking about any political BS but the real deal.

overview of the PLA in english is such fresh content

This is some prime PLA footage, great finds. And, damn, does the ZBD-4A just look good. Outstanding.

Please keep doing PLA content, so hard to find it elsewhere. P.s. I don’t know if you’ve considered covering non-ground forces but content on the PLAN/PLAAF/PLARF would also be cool

I love how much research you put into these! Keep up the great work!

Most impressed by the quantity of drones and ground surveillance radars available on the company level.

Type 99s are pretty fucking good looking

The high-quality videos on PLA units after the 2017 reform has been must-watches, keep it up

Oh man this is some good stuff. It's so refreshing to finally watch some juicy content without a strong political context. Keep it real bro!

Is it okay to think Chinese Aviation brigades are next?? No one covered that. Chinese Land Forces Aviation units are the only ones that will match US Army Aviation operation modality and size some day.

Great job, solid and unbiased content, keep going mate

An excellent look at one of the most relevant militaries in the world. The PLA heavy brigades are truly formidable forces, even if they were to operate under strength. Liked and subscribed, thanks for the great content.

You know that the Korean war made both Americans and Chinese shocked by each other.

Need to give you a thumbs up for providing unbiased briefing about the PLA. For the content although I can't say it is 100% accurate, it is top quality you can find on KZfaq. Must be difficult for a foreigner to collect and translate those materials. One pity thing is that it didn't mention the PCL-181/171/161 howitzer. It is a new star in the army.

Amazing video as always ! By the way, do you think you'll cover modern European armies organization anytime soon ? Keep up the good work !

We need this stuff in wargame red dragon

For the reconnaissance battalion, that radar vehicle is based on the ZSD-89A platform, not ZBD-04A. They look similar to each other, but they are different.

Idea for next breakdown about organiziation: Modern Bundeswehr Mech inf Platoon, since germany has a different approach to combined arms.

You have done your research well without the political bs

According to an April 2021 gov article: As of now, there are in total 82 combined brigades: 29 heavy, 25 medium , 17 light, 1 medium/light, 4 mountain, 6 amphibious. Of 29 heavy brigades, 12 are considered “digital combined heavy”. In addition, there are 4 divisions with conventional layout at Xinjiang.

The news is that they're now replacing every remaining type 59 unit with type 96 In fact there' even rumour that they will actually adapt the type 96B into the army

Do one on the Nato quick reaction forces, or the mixed Brigades Germany has with other countries

Great content with accurate translations. Keep it up!

You didn't mention how the ATF-10's actually feature NLOS missiles which make them VERY unique. They also have drone scouts.

Correction: Pretty much every vehicle that you said was based on the ZBD-04A hull shown from 2:18 onwards (except the AFT-10 ATGM carrier) is actually based on the modernised ZSD-89 hull. This is a common mistake that many people make. Also, you used some footage of the VT-5 which is not same as the ZTQ-15. Anyways, keep up the good work.

Really appreciate your hard work and in depth research! Would you do a video about Chinese Naval equipments and 3 fleets? Chinese naval power is growing so fast and it hard to get a overlook of the entire picture.

I would wager that the PLA at all levels have a very healthy level of respect for the strengths of US forces along with their vast experience in combat operations. Its worth baring in mind, prior to US involvement in Europe and the Pacific in World War II, North American forces were also lacking combat experience and came up against battle-hardened adversaries. Lack of respect for one's enemies can compromise the not only the outcome of a battle but an operation and even the war.

Again good job 👍. Chinese is my mother tongue. This video captures pretty much all I can find in public domain/open source regarding the topics.

I hope in the near future we see the equivalent of this video for the Medium and Light Brigades.

While China and Taiwan have been bitter enemies for a while, interestingly their contemporary armies are organized in very similar fashion. At top sits the Corps level HQ, PLAGF calls it group army (集团军), ROC Army uses the term army (军团). Neither armies maintain division, their tactical maneuver units are combined arms brigades. PLA has four types of combat brigades: heavy, medium, light, and amphibious while ROC Army has two: armored, mechanized infantry. Additionally both armies also retain second line combat units. Infantry Brigades in ROC Army. Border defense and coast defense brigades in PLAGF. Within each combat brigade, the basic maneuver battalions share similar name and concept: combined battalion (合成营) in PLA terminology while in Taiwan military it is known as combined arms battalion (联兵营). Again you can see the influences from US Army. PLA group army also commands a fixed types of support brigades: aviation, artillery, air defense, special op, logistics, and engineer/chemical defense. For ROC Army each of her armies has a brigade sized artillery command including air defense battalion plus two regimental sized units called group (群), one for combat engineer and another one is NBC defense. However unlike PLA group army, Taiwanese field army doesn’t have special op nor aviation assets, those are pooled together under a separate Army Aviation and Special Op Command.

damn, I saw a dude in the comment section called the ERA "sheet metal" and claim a .337 mag could penetrate the turret, man, that's a new level of stupidity, a layman should never comment on something that he/she doesn't know anything about, period

Excellently put together video, it's hard to find precise information on this on one's own so the effort is greatly appreciated. Keep it up. A similar breakdown of Chinese air brigades would be welcome.

Really nice content, deserve more views.

Real deal and no politic. Pure facts. Love it! keep up the great work, subscribed! :)

This was really interesting, and I was amused by the recognition that everyone's just waiting for the tanks.

Objective and accurate descriptions.

This content grandly helps my Arma 3 content. Thank you so much!

Quality meets quantity! Well done!!

I'm from China.，I can't say it's completely accurate, there are a few mistakes, but this is a good video，Very comprehensive, PLA needs experience

Interesting and nicely done.

Yup, this is a very well-made and well-researched video. From this, we get the gist of how structured and modern the PLA is. Whoever thought that China is nothing but a paper tiger is due for a rude awakening.

@Battle Order A video on Chinese PLA GF's light combined arms/mechanised brigade based on 8x8 and 6x6 wheeled vehicles will be much appreciated, specially describing the deployment of the ZTL 11 assault gun vehicles in their formations.

Amazing work! It would be nice if you could cover the Chinese Combined Air Assault Brigades next and compare them to the American counterparts. Looking forward to it!

Are nearly all NATO commands structured like the BCT’s?

Very insightful & interesting, thank you!

Great content brother subscribed.

best military video out there! please make a similar video on infantry brigade too

An extremely rare example of objective report of China by western journalist

expected of the world's next superpower.

Great breakdown. Keep up the awesome work.

Awesome vid, thanks for the info!

PLA: We will not attack unless we are attacked; if we are attacked, we will certainly counterattack.

I wonder if we’ll ever get a video on anything from the Hermit Kingdom

Who needs S2 when we got Battle Order as our Intel Section

Interesting! Great job dude

Like your US Navy carrier wing video, I learned more than I anticipated. You always do fine work.

I would love to see a video about the Israeli army or maybe their military production system. They seem like such a unique kinda army and a very stand alone army surrounded by enemies.

Whoa I never even seen such a good summary in Chinese media and magazine! This is good shit.

ZBD-86 is more like a mix copy of BMP-1 and BMP-2. It depends on a variant, but from memory most that are in use have 30 mm autocannon or something similar. No 73 mm low pressure cannon. I'm not saying China didn't have them, but they used that platform so much that there are IIRC more than dozen combat versions (to say nothing of specialty versions like ambulances etc.).

Love your vids! It would be cool to see videos on more macro levels of military organization, like the CARS-USARS transition, or the fate of the ACR's (Armored Cavalry Regiments).

keep up the great work！I like your video!(im chinese)

Very detail and data oriented content

Love this docs make more about other countries please❤️

Anxiety increases

The verhicles used by units are depent on frontier lvl. Example units facing Taiwan and elite units have they better equipment and verhicles and tanks. Second and reserve units have semi modern equipment mounted on older verhicles/tanks.

Great info

can't wait for you to do more countries, hopefully my country Singapore will be done soon

有个错误，合成营的炮兵连有9门120毫米自行迫榴炮，外加1辆指挥车和3辆弹药车。战时一个合成营可以得到合成旅的一个连6门122毫米自行榴弹炮的支援。其他部分全都正确。另外希望讲讲PLA的中型旅、轻型旅和快速反应部队：）

Great video

Thank goodness for this channel

Holy hell that's a lot of firepower

9:21 Holy smokes the ZTZ-99A is a badass looking tank. Unfortunately a 11 minute long video you only showed a photo image of this tank once!

I’ve waited a long time for this...

nice video😊

With the recent heat up between relations of the US and PRC a video like this is helpful to know what we're up against if war is unavoidable by the way I'm not biased against China I'm just saying if anyone has the means of challenging the us it's China so it's best to not be ignorant

you should DEFINETLY do vids about cold war factons units and modern present day and near future and future stuff

This is such a cool channel.

thanks for excellent content

Great work on PLA man, keep it up btw, can you use the term of type-xx next time, a lot of us more familiar with type 99 than the name of zbd99

Much love

The CIA after seeing this video : *concern*

Can you do a video on the south Korean military and how this might coincide with the Chinese and Japanese plans? This would be very interesting

妈耶！很少见到老外讲解放军，相对能讲得详细的。Battle Order算一个！

Pretty capable, how many fully equipped brigades do they have I wonder?

great video as always! Do you mind if I ask the sources used for this video, thanks a lot!

Do one video on the JGSDF as well. Great video btw!

Well done. Have you considered doing a piece on the modern Israeli Army?

😂everyone does this, but nevertheless. ZTQ-15 and VT-5 are two very different tanks. Mixing them in video looks weird. Terrific content, thumbs up!

From my understanding, no armoured brigade currently have ztz59. ztz99a is not so widely used, and it is usually called ztz99 phase 1/2/3 and ztz99 Kai.

Cut the music off

Have you covered the supply/logistics side of the PLA? I'm always wondering how, if at all possible, they would supply their entire army if mobilized

An empire reborn from the large and cumbersome infantry divisions of the Cold War.

Battle Order : Thumbs up 2 your mechanized combat infantry unit videos. Have u a video on U S. Mechanized Combat Infantry units in Vietnam? You guys are the best !

Here we go!

29 self propelled guns in one battalion.... Commanded by Chinese mathematic geniuses.... NATO is definitely behind the ball

USMC litteral combat regiment, or a USMC weapons company next

Heavy on firepower short on infantry

please can you do one on the mechanized british infantry