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border patrol officers and men driving a new hovercraft. (Wei Shijiang photo)

newspaper Hohhot August 2 also features electric Liu, Wei Shijiang special correspondent reports: The new generation of our military equipment made out of new border patrol, boat Bayi Army first set sail enforce the Sino-Russian border river Argun patrol. Reporters military border patrol unit in Inner Mongolia of a boat dock to see, full of energy to the officers and men on duty on board the current border military forces and equipment of the first boat hovercraft boats, onto the border river.

with reporters and patrol boat set sail. Captain to start the engine, along with the roaring sound of the engine driving the waves stirred up clouds of gas close to the water hovercraft, on a walk through the boundary rivers, such as light flying swallow; encounter shoals do not slow down leap directly over, and feeling on board no obvious vibration; sitting in the spacious cabin cruise, soldiers and coast guard to patrol the river to complete the task faster and more efficient patrolling.

According to reports, the ship made a new amphibious hovercraft border, is designed for manned border river water boundary river border patrol and military craft developed. The ship is equipped with advanced navigation radar, satellite positioning, video surveillance, digital communications and alarm equipment cabin, with a high degree of information technology, large cabin, power is strong, fast speed, shallow draft and all-weather patrol and so on. Ship in the shallows, swamps and grasslands within the complex travel channel, an effective solution to the dry season river boats easily stranded, and docking is limited and other problems, to achieve a pipe inside the patrol no dead ends.

hovercraft also fitted out with the border along with new patrol boats. Reporters saw the new boat from the hull design to the cabin structure facilities, compared with the previous generation of patrol boats has changed dramatically. In addition to the hull long, wide, supporting improved information technology facilities, the new patrol boats from the past one to two engines, speed, faster, more mobile.

It is understood that this is the formation of the brigade patrol boats and equipment has been replaced 3 times, with new boats and gradually put on duty to patrol the border river control effectiveness will be greatly enhanced.