How to "win by night" in the future battlefield ■ Lu Feng, liuzhichao Reading summary ● modern night warfare, due to the extensive application of night vision equipment, the dark night is no longer the camouflage of the weak, showing a new feature of "the strong prefer night warfare and the weak are forced to fight at night". ● with the development of unmanned and intelligent technology, night warfare platform is increasingly developing towards small and micro, super endurance and intelligent cluster. ● it has become an important issue to follow the changes in the battlefield, change the night training content, increase the proportion, intensity and difficulty of night combat training, and improve the level of night combat technology integration. Speaking of night warfare, it was the traditional advantage of our army. The "night attack on Yangmingbao airport" in the war of resistance against Japan, "crossing the Yangtze River at night" in the war of liberation, and the "surprise attack on the white tiger regiment" in the war to resist US aggression and aid Korea are all legendary examples in the history of our army. "The sun is ours and the moon is Chinese!" On the Korean battlefield in the past, the US military once issued such a sigh. However, with the continuous emergence of advanced technologies such as night vision, network and intelligence, modern night warfare shows the characteristics of multi-dimensional interaction, one-way transparency and node attack. Night is no longer the camouflage of the weak, and the way of night warfare is quietly changing. In the face of challenges, we must be aware of changes, adapt and strive for changes in order to find a new key to defeat the enemy. New features of quasi modern night warfare Influenced by the dark night, the traditional night combat has the characteristics of limited observation and command, reduced weapon firing effect, complex coordination, difficult support but easy to achieve surprise, which makes the close combat enemy annihilation tactics to show their talents. The weak make full use of the dark night, focus on achieving surprise attacks, narrow the gap with the superior enemy, showing the characteristics of "the weak prefer night warfare, and the strong are forced to night warfare". In the information age, the party with technical advantages has formed the one-way transparent advantage of night warfare through a large number of equipment with advanced night warfare performance. It is reported that a standard combat company of the U.S. Army is currently equipped with nearly 200 pieces of night vision equipment, basically realizing the "low light level for individual soldiers and thermal imaging for shifts", and actively seeking to form an all-weather and all-round combat capability without difference and separation day and night. In recent years, some local war practices have shown that foreign armies, especially those of powerful countries, have basically realized the transformation from being afraid of night warfare to actively seeking night warfare, showing the new characteristics of "the strong prefer night warfare and the weak are forced to night warfare". In the future night warfare, whether facing the strong or the weak, if you want to take the initiative, you should make full use of the characteristics of night warfare and create opportunities for victory by creating crises for your opponents. To contend with a strong enemy, we should try our best to find the weakness of the strong enemy and curb the strong enemy's superiority; When fighting against a weak enemy, we should give full play to our own advantages in night warfare, suppress the enemy in an all-round way, and firmly grasp the initiative. Develop new applications of night warfare technology The essence of night warfare is to use the darkness to conceal one's own actions in order to achieve operational surprise. In the past, troops with inferior equipment often used dark night cover to secretly approach the enemy and annihilate the enemy in close combat, so as to make up for their own lack of weapons and equipment. With the rapid development of science and technology, a variety of advanced night vision equipment came into being. A large number of convenient, multi-functional, information-based, intelligent and unmanned night warfare equipment are constantly used in the battlefield. For example, the onyx binocular night vision system of the French army, which uses the latest light enhancement and low energy consumption technology, weighs only 340g and can work for up to 40 hours; The KH-12 reconnaissance satellite with thermal imaging and adaptive optics technology and the global Eagle UAV loaded with synthetic aperture radar, photoelectric camera and infrared focal plane array camera can realize all-weather ground reconnaissance, surveillance or strike. In particular, with the organic combination of intelligent technology, modern manufacturing technology and night vision technology, the intelligent unmanned night warfare technology has changed from single platform remote control to intelligent multi platform man-machine fusion group control, and the unmanned night warfare platform has developed to small, micro, super endurance and intelligent clustering. Its command and control mode has changed from primary simple program control to semi autonomous and fully autonomous man-machine hybrid intelligent autonomous interactive control, It has greatly changed the face of night warfare. In the past, some troops who were not good at night warfare have made up for their weakness in night warfare by virtue of their night vision technology and equipment, and are even ready to dominate the night warfare battlefield. In the future night warfare, we should fully recognize the great role of emerging technologies in improving the army's night warfare capability, make full use of the advantages of the deep integration of the new generation of information network technology and artificial intelligence technology, strive to improve the night warfare capability of weapons and equipment, make the integration of unmanned single platform independent warfare, multi platform group warfare and man-machine coordinated warfare, and actively realize a high degree of interconnection, interoperability and close coordination among multi-dimensional night warfare forces, Strive to achieve "I have no one, I have excellent people". Pay attention to the new evolution of night warfare mode The traditional night combat usually reduces the opponent's detection and Strike ability by using the dark night. The friendly side adopts the small group multi-channel, irregular and close combat method, and most of them are carried out by the army, especially by infantry based units on the ground. The combination of strong attack and attack is the basic method of night warfare. With the revolutionary breakthrough of night warfare technology, the night warfare mode has changed from small group multi-channel, ground close contact operations to manned and unmanned, distributed cluster cooperative operations. In particular, unmanned combat forces that are not affected by darkness gradually replace manned combat forces to carry out high-risk tasks. Driven by data empowerment, it is showing a trend of "man-machine cooperative operations + unmanned cluster operations". It is reported that the Russian army has started to train a large number of unmanned equipment since 2017, and the proportion of unmanned equipment will exceed 30% by 2025. At the same time, various types of unmanned equipment show a trend from single and sporadic use to systematic and large-scale cluster use, and will play an increasingly important role in actual combat, so as to realize the seamless connection and intelligent application of information between multi-dimensional field reconnaissance and perception platforms. The operational effects of night combat force systems in various fields are more prominent, and the advantages between manned and unmanned platforms are complementary. It can be predicted that the unmanned intelligent equipment will become more and more mature in system and scale application, and the use will be more flexible and diverse. The task domain will also expand from a single domain to multiple domains. Unmanned and manned, distributed collaboration will become the main mode of night warfare in the future, resulting in the change of night warfare methods. In the future night warfare, we must focus on the new mode of intelligent unmanned and clustered attack, boldly innovate and explore new methods of night warfare, especially innovate the methods and methods of unmanned combat platform intelligent equipment cluster formation, reconnaissance and surveillance, command and control, signal fire attack, manned unmanned coordinated attack, etc. under dark conditions, and explore unmanned reconnaissance platform, coordinated attack unmanned platform The anti unmanned cluster operation method of comprehensive protection and other contents continuously improves the night manned unmanned operation and anti unmanned operation ability, so as to improve the night operation level under the information and intelligence conditions. Expand new areas of night combat training Not fighting unprepared battles is one of the iron rules for winning wars. War practice shows that thorough night training is an effective way to improve the night combat capability of the troops, especially the troops with inferior equipment and technology. In history, our army relied on sufficient night training to develop superb night fighting skills and tactics, which to some extent eliminated the equipment advantages of powerful enemies and thus won one victory after another. Obviously, the most effective way to improve the ability of modern night warfare is to focus on the needs of modern night warfare, step up preparations and implement night warfare training in addition to actively taking measures to improve equipment. Undoubtedly, mastering night combat weapons and equipment and skillfully using night combat skills are the basis and prerequisite for winning night combat. At the same time, night warfare is not only a confrontation of technical skills, but also a competition of tactical methods and even strategies. Especially in the case of superior night combat technology and equipment, it is particularly important that night combat tactics and methods are superior to the enemy. In the future, night training must focus on the characteristics of night combat, expand the content of night training, increase the proportion, intensity and difficulty of night training, and strengthen the training of war technology integration. In view of the strengths and weaknesses of the enemy's night vision equipment, we should explore ways to confront them from the technical and tactical means, study targeted countermeasures against the enemy's night vision equipment, learn to strengthen covert operations when the enemy uses all kinds of night vision and lighting equipment, learn the methods and means to destroy the enemy's night vision and lighting equipment, learn to use camouflage equipment and night vision equipment, and learn to operate the unmanned combat platform intelligent combat platform, Focus on laying a solid foundation for night fighting. On this basis, with the combat task as the traction, the combat organization as the entity, and based on the coordinated attack of manned and unmanned personnel, it integrates the application of technology, strengthens the whole system, all elements and the whole process of actual combat drills at night, weakens the enemy's advantages in night combat technology and equipment with the odd and righteous method, and trains the excellent skills of defeating the superior with the inferior, so as to prepare for winning the future night combat. (outlook new era)